Example sentences of "it [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine . |
| 2 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |
| 3 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |
| 4 | of ten , when people talked at her , it only made her feel more isolated and cut off . |
| 5 | But it only made things worse . |
| 6 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 7 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 8 | Alexander had , up to now , been completely ignorant of this habit , and anything that he did to change it only made the situation worse . |
| 9 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 10 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 11 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 12 | But it only made her smile . |
| 13 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 14 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 15 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 16 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 17 | ‘ Self-determination is the right of all people in the world , including Germans , but it only makes sense when one does not lose sight of the concerns of others … we are coming to the end of a century which has seen the special responsibility of Germans for some terrible things . ’ |
| 18 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 19 | The decision to build the lift could not have been taken lightly ; it only makes sense as part of a scheme of general improvement . |
| 20 | With me , it only makes things worse . ’ |
| 21 | Thinking about it only makes you upset . |
| 22 | It only makes matters worse that the sound remains harsh , boxy and quite uncomfortable to listen to . |
| 23 | It only makes matters worse by increasing anxiety over the problem . |
| 24 | Once it is decided that certain assumptions are true , it only makes sense to demonstrate this by counting on them in practice . |
| 25 | It only makes people more pessimistic , and is another example of the negativity that has characterised all sides during the election campaign . ’ |
| 26 | Considering that the Soviet economy is not in the pink of health in its own right , it only makes sense to ask whether the burden will remain affordable — and , indeed , whether hard economic facts will not drive the USSR to reassess the wisdom of maintaining anything so extravagant as a Socialist Commonwealth in her present circumstances . |
| 27 | However it only makes provision for criminal penalties , and not civil remedies . |
| 28 | Ca n't you understand that it only makes her despise you more ? " |
| 29 | It only makes things more dangerous for us ! ’ |
| 30 | It only makes me want you all the more . |