Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having produced the fake , there is then the problem of making it look old . |
| 2 | I 'll sit there and watch some guy and go , ‘ Man , the work that must have gone into that ! ’ and they 're just whizzing right along making it look easy , but at the same time it does n't make those hairs stand up . |
| 3 | Glasgow offers an excellent Higher Education infrastructure and the Agency 's Technology Programme aims to build on this strength by helping it develop stronger links with key high technology companies . |
| 4 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 5 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |