Example sentences of "make it [noun] " in BNC.

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1 President Bush had made it part of his re-election campaign to attacked the alleged incompetence and corruption of the Democrat-controlled Congress , which he blamed for the shortcomings of the Republican administration .
2 A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound .
3 Sammy Wilson , the DUP press officer , dissociated the party from Seawright 's remarks : ‘ The DUP has always made it crystal clear — as Protestants we believe in civil and religious liberty for all men , and no one should be persecuted for their religious beliefs .
4 ‘ Oh — better make it Martini .
5 Er , I can make it I can make it Monklands , or Strathclyde ?
6 Mr Justice Cave , in his summing up , went to some lengths to inform the jury that , even when the taking of a human life appears on the surface a motiveless crime , this does not automatically make it manslaughter .
7 I am sure London Scottish and Irish will say they can not afford to play in their national competitions , but that should not make it England 's problem .
8 Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily .
9 What time do you make it Stu ?
10 Jot will be supported in Go 's PenPoint operating system by year-end , and Microsoft will implement it in Windows for Pen , while General Magic will make it part of Telescript , its cross-system communications standard .
11 The point , however , we wish to make here is that , from whatever source the teachers are drawn , their work with adult students should be regarded as university work ; the Professor of English should make it part of his duties to keep in close touch with them , periodical meetings of the tutors and the Professor , for the interchange of ideas and the discussion of problems should be held — in short that the extension and tutorial classes should be regarded as an integral part of the English Department .
12 I said , oh go a bit later then , I goes cos I 'll make it quarter past seven I 'm not sitting round for half an hour , not like kiddos
13 The group believes that its collective strength will make it second in the software queue behind only Sun Microsystems Inc with its 141,000 seats to Sun 's estimated 241,000 single-user systems .
14 but it 'll make it Easter weekend
15 ‘ Better make it NUPE , Phoebe , much more radical . ’
16 got twenty one , twenty two , twenty seven , twenty eight , twenty , twenty plus something , we could make that N if you like instead of X. We could make it N , N is just some number from about nought to nine .
17 Dorcas had changed the wiring so that he could make it ring whenever he liked .
18 No amount of talk and pretence will make it reality .
19 She did n't , she said yes I would n't make it Ann , a bit hairy .
20 The call the night before : Mohammed ca n't fly tomorrow , his gland has come up again , anyway , he mentioned your name , said you 're rated for the 35 , wonder if you could make it £200 cash and your exes ?
21 I 'll shall be there Friday , Pauline , I , I ca n't make it Thursday .
22 For an accountant in practice who is keen on a secondment to the regulatory sector , the range of experience offered at the DTI would make it time well spent .
23 ‘ That , ’ he said , ‘ will make it growl — it will fight a lion if it gets that down it . ’
24 Can make it sort of drive up mountains and things
25 Let's make it dinner tonight instead . ’
26 We must also make it crystal clear how much shopkeepers , who gave us so much flak when we introduced the business rate and the community charge , will now be paying .
27 As the hon. Gentleman has referred to the Rothschild report , let me make it crystal clear that we have appointed advisers , including Rothschilds , to analyse options for privatisation of the industry .
28 Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions .
29 Besides , he would only make it grist to his mill .
30 Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ .
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