Example sentences of "make it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 2 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 3 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 4 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 5 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 6 | In common with the best of our competitors , Sainsbury 's have made it their policy to incorporate on-site bakeries into every new store opening , as well as adding them into many existing locations . |
| 7 | After a dinner at the famous Kaiserhof Hotel , chosen because Hitler had made it his headquarters before he came to power , the Joyces went back to a party at the Reichsrundfunk building . |
| 8 | Like a great many others in Tollemarche , he had made it his goal and his God . |
| 9 | But he has made it his business to master the terminology of the economic debate , and applied to the problem an elegant and sophisticated technique of intellectual biography . |
| 10 | Since John 's death , however , one of his younger cousins , Robin Cranko , has made it his business to search out the beginnings of the family . |
| 11 | " The killer would have made it his business to get here early this morning , assuming that he did n't know that his plan had misfired . |
| 12 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 13 | The girl , whose name was Marion , was now a magistrate , and a grandmother , but the escapade had sharpened the young Grunte 's appetites and he had made it his business in the intervening years to keep up what he cheerfully called ‘ my rate of strike ’ . |
| 14 | The headmaster of Cranborne School had made it his business , during Robert 's nine years in the place , to make sure that other people did the crying . |
| 15 | ‘ We have made it our duty to find out as much as we can about Natasha , so that if it comes to a point where we want to adopt her , we will have the documentation ready . ’ |
| 16 | Why would you have made it your concern ? ’ she asked steadily . |
| 17 | He is trapped there and I have made it my promise , Tallis 's Promise , to release him . |
| 18 | ‘ I have made it my business to go after lost Leonardos now , ’ says Dr Pedretti , who worked closely with Kenneth Clark and took over his mantle as the world 's leading Leonardo expert . |
| 19 | I 've made it my business to . |
| 20 | Oh , I 'm not complaining — I 've always made it my business to ensure that the women I meet are the sort who understand the rules and know how to play the game . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying that you should make it their responsibility to do these things , but we should offer them the opportunity . ’ |
| 22 | Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town . |
| 23 | My son was murdered , and that means that there are certain facts the police will make it their business to discover . ’ |
| 24 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 25 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 26 | He would n't let her make it his problem . |
| 27 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy to include environmental protection features to the hill livestock compensatory allowance scheme . |
| 28 | Hence the insistence of the later books of the New Testament that anyone who aims to serve Christ faithfully must make it his aim to know and conserve God 's truth . |
| 29 | The newly-elected councillor should make it his duty to find out how committees are elected and this information will be readily obtained from the chief executive or clerk of the authority . |
| 30 | He would make it his business to find out who it was . |