Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I take it so much to heart , ’ he mourned , ‘ that I do not get on better . ’ |
| 2 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 3 | ‘ We had to think long and hard about making it so personal to Thomas , ’ says Beverley . |
| 4 | He points out , after all , that one of the great features of the reef — one that makes it so exciting to biologists and tourists alike — is its bewildering diversity . |
| 5 | It 's this very difficulty of tracing musical gear which makes it so attractive to thieves . |
| 6 | The company says this makes it less prone to fractures . |
| 7 | The large size and wide-ranging habit of the orangutan make it especially vulnerable to devastation in tropical rainforests . |
| 8 | The sickness peaks when the foetus is going though a rapid stage of development of limbs and organs , making it highly sensitive to toxins . |
| 9 | San Diego , California-based , Xcelerated Systems Inc says it will port its X-Windows-based Mac-on-Unix software Liken to IBM 's RS/6000 boxes , intending to make it generally available to IBM 's worldwide customer base in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 10 | Is it possibly transferable to education and , given that teachers , lecturers and senior management teams are slow to change , can rapid change , in any event , ever be characteristic of a social service ? |
| 11 | Other factors have also forced a rethink on the left , making it more palatable to Washington . |
| 12 | I am pleased to report that in 1992 I was able to substantially achieve one of the objects of my Presidency , the refurbishment of the main exhibition galleries at Portland Place , making it more welcoming to members and the public and better able to put the case for architecture . |
| 13 | He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter . |
| 14 | Science 's masculine image makes it more appealing to boys who are likely to be less emotionally mature . |
| 15 | The huge investment in computers , staff , and administration has the potential to improve the health service by making it more responsive to patients ' needs and raising awareness of costs . |
| 16 | ‘ We have found tenants for all these units , ’ says Gerry Gallagher , who is the project manager , ‘ and we have other plans for improvements to the village which will make it more attractive to visitors . |
| 17 | Last week , NCR added some new features to Top-End that should make it more attractive to customers moving from mainframe-based systems or mixing mainframe and open systems environments . |
| 18 | They 're opening the game up and making it more attractive to spectators . ’ |
| 19 | Well do you think actually so to make it more What could be done to actually make it more attractive to traders ? |
| 20 | The apparent failure of LIFFE 's ECU bond contract brought about a review of the product 's specifications to make it more attractive to hedgers , speculators and arbitrageurs . |
| 21 | ‘ We have , for the first time , made it directly accountable to practitioners , and we have strengthened its role in advancing and defending high standards of professional education and conduct in the interests of the public . ’ |
| 22 | Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . |
| 23 | What makes it both attractive to users and even more misleading is that the promoters of the technique tend to use a number of methods to produce ‘ norms ’ for , in particular , ‘ preference shift ’ , but also for various attention measures . |
| 24 | Not all writers , however , thought in national terms ; the distinguished canon lawyer William Lyndwood was not prepared to identify patria with regnum , and instead thought of it as equivalent to regio , which for him meant the province of Canterbury ( 27 , p.172a ) . |
| 25 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 26 | What is it really like to farm in Eastern Europe ? |
| 27 | All eyes were on him , making it fairly obvious to Leith that his family never saw him hesitate over anything . |
| 28 | But it 's encouraging that so many scientists , politicians and ( of late ) influential business people have been making it unmistakably clear to White House officials that the US position on global warming and the whole Earth Summit process absolutely stinks . |
| 29 | Absorb the complement with agarose ( 30 ) , store it at 70 C and only thaw it immediately prior to use . |
| 30 | Around 80% of its business is generated through value-added resellers and dealers — of which there are 500 in the UK alone — making it particularly vulnerable to piracy . |