Example sentences of "[vb -s] to make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the book needs to make it worthy of recommendation as an introduction to this enjoyable branch of mathematics is a health warning like the one on the tobacco advertisements : ‘ Reading this book can damage your understanding of physical reality ’ . |
| 2 | Langer has won seven European PGA tournaments in Germany , four German Opens , two German Masters and one Honda Open and wants to make it eight . |
| 3 | He wants to make it easier for Government Departments to carry out projects using private investors and the commercial banks . |
| 4 | The Government also wants to make it easier for people to obtain a drinks licence and to water down the power of licensing magistrates , who currently have absolute discretion to refuse applications , often without giving a reason . |
| 5 | He also wants to make it clear that he 's not ‘ a Unix-on-the-desktop basher . |
| 6 | He wants to make it permanent . |
| 7 | This happens to some extent with ordinary languages : in Malagasy one has to make it clear whether a ‘ we ’ is inclusive or exclusive , while in Navajo using the verb ‘ to go ’ requires one to give some clues about returning . |
| 8 | As the discount factor tends to unity , so the equilibrium alters to make it harder to acquire a reputation as a z = 0 type , by extending the length of the temporary reputation which all types enjoy . |
| 9 | Peter Rost , the council 's chairman , who is a former Conservative MP and ex-member of the Commons Energy Select Committee , said yesterday : ‘ The council intends to make it clear that we will no longer accept fobbing-off , soothing noises from politicians , regulators and suppliers , the decision makers who should be helping us . ’ |
| 10 | The complexity and quantity of these hypotheses tends to make it impractical to define the control regime fully in terms of the knowledge sources alone ; instead , the pattern of activity can be quite complex and unpredictable , with sources being invoked and suspended repeatedly on different parts of the problem , depending on the characteristics of the data being processed . |
| 11 | However , it is not just the fact that professional education involves value-education which tends to make it conservative ; it is the way in which values and attitudes are learned . |
| 12 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 13 | If in a subsequent Act Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed , effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the Legislature . |
| 14 | Late yesterday , the two companies were due to announce Windows Telephony , which aims to make it easier for software applications that can link to a wide range of telephone equipment , from PABXes to cellular telephone exchanges . |
| 15 | The project aims to make it easier to compare research already being carried out in these topics by IER and INSEE , culminating in the holding of a comparative seminar . |
| 16 | The social class composition of lawyers compared with particular client groups appears to make it easy for some to consult lawyers while presenting barriers to other sections of the community . |
| 17 | There is no direct decision on the point , but the rule itself seems to make it essential that the defendant should ‘ bring on his lands ’ the danger . |
| 18 | It helps to make it possible for people to face openly the ambivalence of the caring relationship on both sides , with the possibility of conflict where it exists . |
| 19 | But its thread since Defoe is unbroken , and it is the absence of any break in a national tradition now nearly three centuries long that helps to make it effortless . |
| 20 | So the graphite it actually helps to make it self-lubricating . |
| 21 | In the long-term , the team hopes to make it self-financing . |
| 22 | In most cases , there are insufficient surviving remains to make it worthwhile conserving the site for public display : if it has been fully excavated , all that may remain to be seen are , literally , a few depressions in the natural subsoil , even if what was excavated above was quite spectacular . |
| 23 | She marked the meridians , numbered the latitudes and longitudes , and added a curlicue of compass points to make it navigable . |
| 24 | I usually leave the cocktail sticks to make it easier for people to pick the devils up when they are hot . |
| 25 | Even this second edition fails to make it clear to at least one twentieth-century reader why Polybius should be relevant to the cause of one-year parliaments . |
| 26 | This defence may last for days or for weeks , but usually the funeral begins to make it all real to her . |