Example sentences of "[noun] make it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
2 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
3 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
4 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
5 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
6 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
7 | He took from it a ten-shilling note which he placed on the tea-chest , smoothing out the folds to make it lie flat . |
8 | If that sounds like standard talk , Back To The Planet make it seem heartfelt . |
9 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
10 | The existence of successful black sportsmen in Britain is not the recent phenomenon it is often considered to be , though the upsurge in the post-war years makes it appear that way . |
11 | For though the boat 's interior was a masterpiece of functional yet elegant design which created an impression of light , airy spaciousness , the very presence of Nathan Bryce made it feel cramped and claustrophobic . |
12 | Frankie had scrubbed his hands and feet and dampened his hair with water to make it lie flat and tidy against his head . |
13 | and it would also enable you to quickly and easily do something on the erm on the , on the private functions night to make it look different . |
14 | but black the orange light 's shining on the red button made it look black . |
15 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
16 | I 've not heard that for quite a while and its unfamiliarity makes it sound strange . |
17 | By the early 1970s , however , the situation looked more favourable ; the reorganization of teacher education following the 1972 White Paper and the run-down of initial teacher training made it seem feasible to redeploy resources to raise the quality of the teaching force in further education . |
18 | Millwall on the other hand made it look all to easy … their sub Verveeay was a yard too quick for the Oxford defence … and his shot was spot on … |
19 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |
20 | Do n't pad out your answer to make it seem impressive . |
21 | It is rather like a child rejecting food he has not tasted because he does not have enough information to make it seem attractive . |
22 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
23 | ‘ Do you think God would give me the vision and no way to make it come true ? |
24 | Yeah , I should get one that yeah page ten , it says return to your letter and essentially i it tells you all the various formatting options that you want to apply to your document to make it look neat and tidy . |
25 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
26 | ‘ Aa made it nobbut two days sen . |
27 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
28 | Two ageing rock stars in front made it look easy and Hebbert was fooled . |
29 | True , John makes it look easy , but , his tackle control is so good that it is obviously going to be difficult to emulate . |
30 | Close proximity to the body sides , the roof and the front screen makes it feel crowded , but there is actually plenty of legroom , and like the Calibra , a roomy footwell with space to rest the left foot ( though do n't forget the test car is in left-hand-drive form ) . |