Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [coord] make it " in BNC.
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| 1 | India , which had removed the final contingent of Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) troops from Sri Lanka in March 1990 [ see p. 37316 ] , expressed concern for the plight of Tamil civilians but made it clear that it would not permit its territory to be used to support militant activity . |
| 2 | … We have consciously tried to place responsibility on the management of nationalized industries and to make it clear that pay negotiations are matters for them and their employees . |
| 3 | Andrew Burton Sculptures Open Air Sculpture Court , Municipal Art Gallery , Middlesbrough ( Until May 16 ) THERE was a time when I thought that Chris Sell , from Sunderland , had achieved the ultimate distinction , by taking the elephant as a kind of second signature and making it strictly his own . |
| 4 | Your task is to clean the underworld of foul beasts and make it inhabitable so the city can be expanded . |
| 5 | Brennan argues that while non-traditional students will continue to fit into conventional higher education via Access Courses or other means , more should be done to change higher education to meet the needs of non-traditional students and make it more attractive to them . |
| 6 | This led to a surplus of qualified workers and made it possible for their work and pay to be devalued . |
| 7 | Under-reporting can cause a serious deficiency in the gathering of necessary information and makes it less likely that anything will be done to improve the situation . |
| 8 | Technological advances in manufacturing have raised the quality of most goods and made it easier for competitors to copy one another 's innovations — which are , anyway , typically minor and increasingly rare . |
| 9 | The Centre acts in an entrepreneurial role to bring new resources into economic research and make it more productive and innovative . |
| 10 | How can we enter into this happiness and make it part of our lives ? |
| 11 | Unemployment in the 1980s forced many older people into early retirement and made it difficult for others to find work . |
| 12 | With this system , we have substantially reduced the capital cost compared with other processes and made it easy to integrate into existing equipment . |
| 13 | Propaganda by itself was insufficient ; they must involve themselves in social agitation and make it known that the republicans were involved : |
| 14 | I sometimes shape just the first third of the sleeve , increasing rapidly in this section but making it possible to knit the rest of the sleeve straight . |
| 15 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 16 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 17 | Stalin 's death and the first limited signs of de/tente and disengagement in Europe ( notably the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 ) heightened the importance of national sensibilities in Eastern Europe and made it advantageous to erect a multilateral fig leaf of collective security over the USSR 's continued domination of her neighbours . |
| 18 | You can buy chilli oil from Chinese supermarkets or make it yourself . |
| 19 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 20 | There is a material difference between merely exempting certain conduct from criminal penalties and making it lawful in the full sense . |
| 21 | He is still talking in terms of a new career , rather than retiring , and this is not surprising in view of the work ethic , which tells us that the only ‘ proper ’ way for a man to spend his time is in productive employment and makes it very difficult for men to take up interests purely for the enjoyment . |
| 22 | All that business about dissolving walls and making it real . |
| 23 | Chambers argues that this pattern which characterises companies like Toyota or Marks and Spencers achieves economies of vertical integration without unified ownership and makes it possible to combine the advantages of markets with the virtues of planning , since it gives a measure of stability to both parties . |
| 24 | This method gives children a clear idea of how groups of words relate to each other and makes it easier for them to remember new words and meanings . |
| 25 | Romantic poets such as Novalis and Arndt gave expression to this idea and made it famous , but it dates at least from Leibniz 's great political tract , Caesarinus Furstenerius ( De Supremum Principum Germaniae ) written in 1677 which called for the unification of Christendom and , thus , of Germany . |
| 26 | Britain is pressing the UN to rotate troops to ease the burden on individual countries and make it easier for nations to offer forces for the growing number of peacekeeping duties around the world . |
| 27 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 28 | By creating a mode of Repertory Grid Technique specific to visual art and making it available through the personal computer , this area full of complexity and uncertainty might come to be both better understood and more widely valued . |
| 29 | Opponents of the MTO claim it would institutionalise the primacy of free trade over environmental protection and make it easier to challenge high national standards on environmental protection as unfair barriers to trade . |
| 30 | I think we 've got the balance right between spectacular jumps and making it still fairly easy for the beginner as well . |