Example sentences of "make it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 2 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 3 | All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere . |
| 4 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 5 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 6 | The self-styled Scottish convention was self-appointed and is unrepresentative , and the introduction of tax-raising powers for Scotland would make it the highest-taxed part of the United Kingdom and would destroy and inward investment that has done so much for its standard of life . |
| 7 | ‘ Shall we make it the best of three ? ’ |
| 8 | This must make it the best value in multimedia ever offered to schools . |
| 9 | We have four players in our forward line which must make it the best in Europe , if not the world . |
| 10 | The less official he could make it the better . |
| 11 | Its combined output will make it the second biggest in Britain . |
| 12 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
| 13 | Yesterday it said the issue would mature in 23 to 28 years ' time , which will make it the longest-dated gilt available in the market . |
| 14 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
| 15 | I might as well make it the whole way . |
| 16 | The new machine will set you back a cool £1,700 which does n't make it the cheapest machine in the world . |
| 17 | That 'd make it the three pints . |
| 18 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 19 | Now , Labour needs a further swing of eight per cent to be sure of an overall majority but six per cent would make it the biggest single party . |
| 20 | James Brown made it the perfunctory Single Of The Week and concentrated mainly on the depth of lyrical content . |
| 21 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 22 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 23 | Seeing that ruling railroaded through made it the saddest day of my life . |
| 24 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 25 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 26 | By 1225 the loss of Poitiers and La Rochelle made it the effective capital of the remaining Plantagenet dominions . |
| 27 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 28 | The conservative Popular Party ( PP ) increased its share of the vote to 25.2 per cent , and gains by the communist-led United Left ( IU ) made it the third most important political force , holding the balance of power in a number of regional and city governments . |
| 29 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 30 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |