Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower a too-high ceiling by painting it darker . |
| 2 | marks and just er sort of make them brighter looking and you know , just make them a s a standing point you know . |
| 3 | It seem , I mean it does seem like a good way at the moment of making it easier for everyone to use the system , but I do n't know whether it 's vital . |
| 4 | He took over the health brief with a reputation as a social policy reformer , having previously reviewed the social security system with the aim of making it fairer . |
| 5 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 6 | For the time being it 's a convenient argument and there 's no point in pressing him further . |
| 7 | what 's the point in making them worse . |
| 8 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 9 | The production takes over at the Criterion Theatre from Making It Better starring actress and cake-maker Jane Asher , which is to close unexpectedly on December 5 . |
| 10 | Therefore , the argument goes , governments should try to manage the rationalisation by making it easier for companies to co-operate across borders . |
| 11 | The search facility has the practical value of making it quicker and simpler to find your place in the recording . |
| 12 | Direct incorporation of the Convention would reduce the number of cases which have to be taken to Strasbourg , improve access to justice by making it quicker and less costly to bring claims , and enable more ready use of the safeguards in the Convention to be made by people in this country . |