Example sentences of "make it [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation .
2 It may still be necessary to avoid certain food items or undergo other forms of treatment , but it should speed the body 's recovery , and make it possible to return to a more normal diet sooner .
3 These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations .
4 Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) .
5 Instead of self-confident assertions whose utterance actually enacts the superiority that is claimed , and which make it possible to identify with ‘ the master race ’ , as being and having everything that the subject races lack , we have discourses which resort to all manner of rhetorical devices to construct a narrative of special pleading marked by highly ambiguous and ironic self-reference and a litany of real or imagined grievance .
6 What he says here it says , There are an investment project , Miss Whittaker , whose size , composition , economic significance and locational requirements make it impossible to locate on an ordinary site , so that 's one one issue , and then he says , Of regional significance or more often national or international significance .
7 But the ( often severe ) tensions and conflicts so evident in their formation make it impossible to rest on explanations m market and liberal terms .
8 The belated impact of Saussurian semiotics , Althusserian and other neo- and post-marxist theories of ideology , Lacanian psychoanalysis and its account of subjectivity and identity , the tradition of British cultural studies associated with people like Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall , various strands of feminism , Foucault 's concern with discourse and power : these are just some of the developments that today make it impossible to think of culture as a finite and self-sufficient body of contents , customs and traditions .
9 All of their shampoos can be used as an all over body wash and The Conditioner from Paul Mitchell has wonderful moisturising properties which make it super to shave with .
10 Even within national systems , the structure of the television schedules , and the different interpretations which are given to different injunctions — with different degrees of force — to inform , entertain and educate , make it difficult to think of television as a single formal system .
11 This follow-up is essential in ward teaching , but poor facilities often make it difficult to achieve without interruption .
12 ‘ Any other scheme could lead to great difficulties of inequality and make it harder to recruit from those groups we need to reach . ’
13 The business men came , we heard , the Chancellor listened , and he has incorporated in his proposals a large number of deregulatory measures , which will ease cash flow and make it easier to deal with the VAT man and the Inland Revenue .
14 When turning completely it is always preferable to turn by leaning the sail over the back of the board ( a tack ) since this will turn the board into wind and make it easier to return from where you set out .
15 Okay now I want you to make a list there for traditional of all the materials we put around there , so make that list there okay and make it easier to look at .
16 They have bevelled edges to reduce on-site damage and make it easier to work with .
17 make it easier to phone for an ambulance ;
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