Example sentences of "make it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does the way you respond help the situation , or make it worse ? ’ , |
| 2 | The old photos of Maggie , straight and young and demure though she looks , make it worse . |
| 3 | Visibly frustrated , I make it worse by trying equally visibly not to appear so . |
| 4 | But they will experience those feelings , because human nature is not at either of these extreme points , it 's neither erm , perfectly good , nor perfectly bad , it 's a , it 's a mixture of both , and consequently , although you can improve the world , for it does n't deny you can improve the world , or make it worse , of course . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to find out in more detail how severe the bone loss is , what factors protect against it , and what factors make it worse . ’ |
| 6 | I know , do n't scratch it you just make it worse |
| 7 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 8 | The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock . |
| 9 | The Report also noted , somewhat prophetically in the light of the present government 's ‘ open enrolment ’ policy under the ERA 1988 — which is designed inter alia to identify bad schools by their lack of popularity with parents — that ‘ whenever a school is unpopular that should be an indication to the authority to find out why and make it better ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Your nan used to take you in there , ’ he said , ‘ with this dead hamster in a cage or the bloody goldfish floating belly up in the bowl , and she 'd wink at him and say , It 's very sick , can you take it in the back and make it better ? |
| 11 | Our challenge today is to take this democratic system of ours , a system second to none , and make it better . |
| 12 | And er all the branches had a cook at the national agreement how to try and alter it and make it better . |
| 13 | But then it seemed to snowball from ‘ Hunky Dory ’ into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ because after playing one or two gigs as an acoustic outfit , it seemed to be natural to take it that step further — to add the bass and add the drums and make it bigger and better — more of a show of it — and so it evolved into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ . |
| 14 | Step it up , make it bigger like |
| 15 | Make it simpler . |
| 16 | Make it simpler for the new babies coming in . |
| 17 | To elaborate the analysis further and make it richer , it is conventional to replace the exogenous investment function with where is the rate of interest and a coefficient indicating the extent to which a higher rate of interest will reduce the planned level of investment in the economy . |
| 18 | In this way , though we do not rid ourselves of the ego , we do transcend it and make it softer and enable ourselves to see things calmly . |
| 19 | Er yeah make it longer . |
| 20 | ‘ Any other scheme could lead to great difficulties of inequality and make it harder to recruit from those groups we need to reach . ’ |
| 21 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 22 | That would both worsen the recession already under way in America and , by forcing inflation higher , make it harder for the Federal Reserve to continue easing monetary policy . |
| 23 | The markings not only make it harder for a thief to sell your property but will also make it easier for the police to identify the rightful owner whenever stolen goods are recovered . |
| 24 | Exaggerated lip movements actually make it harder to understand what you say . |
| 25 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 26 | It soon became apparent that the future for NME was to model the whole paper in its image ; make it harder , more rock-oriented and move away from the chatty , showbiz legacy . |
| 27 | At the same time , SunSelect also unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 28 | Sun has the backing of ICL Plc and Fujitsu Ltd as well as Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp for Wabi and for its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 29 | At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition . |
| 30 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |