Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company might spend ten thousand pounds on a computer , but they would then spend sixty thousand pounds on the associated software to make it work . |
| 2 | You have to follow the rules and work at the right pace to make it work . |
| 3 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 4 | Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to include the unfair management of people or things . |
| 5 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 6 | The repetitive , uniform appearance of the soldier-like trees made it seem as if the car was scarcely moving , and their silent , gloomy shade gradually eased the tension created inside the Citron by the earlier near-accident . |
| 7 | The darkening river made it sound hollow . |
| 8 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 9 | The old lady let it go , and watched Theda hastily tuck it out of sight . |
| 10 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 11 | In Roman times , Oloron was already a place of substance , by name Iluro , but after the Romans went it was much attacked , by invading Vascons from Spain , by Arabs , and by Vikings ; only in the eleventh century did it recover , under the counts of Béarn . |
| 12 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 13 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 14 | The existence of successful black sportsmen in Britain is not the recent phenomenon it is often considered to be , though the upsurge in the post-war years makes it appear that way . |
| 15 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 16 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 17 | But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin . |
| 18 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
| 19 | Close proximity to the body sides , the roof and the front screen makes it feel crowded , but there is actually plenty of legroom , and like the Calibra , a roomy footwell with space to rest the left foot ( though do n't forget the test car is in left-hand-drive form ) . |
| 20 | And it just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work . |
| 21 | It just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work . |
| 22 | and you carry on but sometimes sometimes it is the only way to do it stick with what you say and keep going . |
| 23 | but black the orange light 's shining on the red button made it look black . |
| 24 | And also , the use of the yellow background , I do n't know , erm whether it was deliberately chosen or whether she just happened to be standing there , but the yellow background makes it stand out . |
| 25 | Millwall on the other hand made it look all to easy … their sub Verveeay was a yard too quick for the Oxford defence … and his shot was spot on … |
| 26 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 27 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |
| 28 | The next century saw it pass through the hands of the Arundell , Ockold and Ridler families . |