Example sentences of "make it [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 2 | Moreover , both directly and through the medium of the European Community , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made it plain to the Government of Israel that we deplore the closure decision and that we believe that the universities , colleges and schools should remain open . |
| 3 | SEARCHING for genuine bargains in the New Year Sales can be a struggle but TODAY has made it easier with a comprehensive guide to the best buys on the High Street . |
| 4 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 5 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 6 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 7 | ( 66 ) … she must make it plain before the evening begins that some or all of the financial responsibility for it will be hers . |
| 8 | I mean , it would make it easier from the point of rehearsing . |
| 9 | The point I made to half , and now I 'll make it again to the whole , yesterday , was that it 's very important to , to define your roles in a particular thing . |
| 10 | Miraculously , she could make it sound like a tiny tiny ‘ m ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't make it sound like a disease , love , ’ he interrupted gently . |
| 12 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 13 | Entrenched competitors can make it hard for a supplier to win new orders . |
| 14 | This must make it hard for the agencies who undertake to deliver telephone sales messages . |
| 15 | Benny Polymer , the Titford manager , made it plain at the start of the season that promotion was his goal . |
| 16 | What they had not bargained for was the prejudice of the trial judge , Lord Grant , who , as Nicky relates in his recently published memoirs , made it plain from the outset that he believed , as the police believed , that Meehan was guilty . |
| 17 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 18 | Although that right had been curtailed by s 2(2) of the 1987 Act , which requires a person under investigation to answer questions from the SFO ( or otherwise furnish information ) with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation , the effect of the immunity had been preserved by s 2(8) , which provided that a statement made in accordance with s 2 could only be used in evidence against the person who made it either on a prosecution for knowingly making a false statement ( or recklessly making such ) , or on a prosecution for some other offence where , in giving evidence , that person made a statement which was inconsistent with it . |
| 19 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 20 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
| 21 | Below Inside , comfortable armchairs , reading tables and daily newspapers made it more like a club than a travel agent 's office . |
| 22 | They have two openings on each side of the skull which made it more like a scaffolding , and accounts for the unusually high number of archosaur skulls broken into small fragments . |
| 23 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 24 | Their presence made it hard for the women to rescue the corpses of the drowned , and many bodies had to be abandoned to them . |
| 25 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 26 | Just In Time is a great demo , not so much because of original ideas ( there are hardly any ) , but the excellent execution of the routines make it well worth a gander . |
| 27 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 28 | Uncertainty about the future and lack of continuity of decisions make it hard for the substitute parents to make a strong commitment to the child and include the natural parent . |
| 29 | We make it absolutely on the phone . |
| 30 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |