Example sentences of "to make it " in BNC.

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1 Then American military helicopters drift about the sky : a show of strength which is meant to secure American interests on the island , to make it safe for the bauxite investment .
2 Why would you want to make it such a crisis ?
3 First to make it , he wrote , and then to show it , and then to bring things to a finish .
4 Those are the three steps , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , first to make it , then to ensure that it is seen , and finally to finish with everything .
5 The big glass tells the story of the aridity of art , he wrote , of the lies of art , of the machine without the fuel to make it move .
6 The government is also expected to make it easier for foreign investors to take profits out of the country .
7 When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily .
8 I am always surprised that clubs will happily buy an expensive tractor to pull gliders back , but will not provide aids to make it all less strenuous and time-consuming .
9 If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing .
10 For your first flight , choose a day with some wind to make it easier to keep the wings level and to keep the glider straight .
11 Jay so wanted to make it better , but how ?
12 You can sometimes discover what responses the opponent is likely to make it you make a sudden move towards him .
13 Once the opponent has landed fully , the hook will require a lot of force to make it work , and a foot sweep may then be the more appropriate technique to apply .
14 ‘ Would it take much work to make it sound and tight again ? ’ she asked in a carefully ordinary voice .
15 Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled !
16 On a first visit to a partner 's parents , she decided , she would want to make it clear that her relationship was primarily with him , not them .
17 For a start , it promises to biologize consciousness ; to make it part of the natural world .
18 The copal was heat treated to make it soluble in oils and solvents .
19 I ATTENDED four of the evening sessions of this year 's Great British Beer Festival and had a great time — my thanks to all those who worked so hard to make it such a success .
20 Slowly the tension eased as we realised that we were going to make it ; we exchanged jokes , we moved with greater confidence .
21 It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true .
22 If the new resolution is less than the original , you can show part of the original at full resolution , and pan it around if appropriate , or compress it to make it all visible .
23 English , as the Newbolt Report and Leavis had insisted , was not like other academic subjects , though all the pressures of the modern academy , which include both privileges and responsibilities , have tried to make it come in line .
24 I 'm trying to make it more beautiful and transform it into the language of clothes .
25 However , the Australian Geoff Hunt , joint holder of the record of eight British Open titles , just failed to make it .
26 A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US .
27 East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective .
28 If workers hold a democratic vote to go on strike for whatever reason , it ill becomes a Labour government to legislate to make it unlawful .
29 Whatever you do at least be sure to make it stupendously high ; let it be of all columns in the world the most lofty . ’
30 Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth .
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