Example sentences of "make it their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 2 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 3 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 4 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 5 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 6 | In common with the best of our competitors , Sainsbury 's have made it their policy to incorporate on-site bakeries into every new store opening , as well as adding them into many existing locations . |
| 7 | Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying that you should make it their responsibility to do these things , but we should offer them the opportunity . ’ |
| 9 | My son was murdered , and that means that there are certain facts the police will make it their business to discover . ’ |
| 10 | To the extent that they are spontaneously enthusiastic about the story , can easily make it their own and see implications for their own practice , and ask me back , I reckon I have been successful . |
| 11 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 12 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 13 | Unlike the Greek historians , they made it their business as patriots to present a comprehensive survey of their country 's past . |
| 14 | The French quickly took the town of Killala and made it their headquarters . |
| 15 | Most people in the district made it their business to find out all about newcomers , who were kept under fairly strict scrutiny before they became accepted . |
| 16 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 17 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 18 | No wonder the Twelve made it their priority , and the nameless missionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon . |
| 19 | Abbey National rose 14p to 365p as brokers made it their favourite for a bid from Lloyds Bank . |
| 20 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 21 | The entire family of a widow , especially if she is still young , make it their business jealously to guard her brittle good name as a chaste woman . |
| 22 | That 's all guitar players do , I think , they just steal licks off each other and then make it their own somehow . |
| 23 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 24 | Many experts in the auction rooms make it their business to hang out with aristos waiting for the time Uncle Marmaduke 's Van Dyck has to bite the dust , so they are privy to the ‘ who 's just acquired a new mistress whose florist is Cartier ’ chatter . |
| 25 | Account men make it their business to learn everything they can about the client 's product and how it compares with others on the market , and a strategy is arrived at with the help of the researchers and planners , and sometimes with the creative team on the writing and art side . |
| 26 | This policy is most politick , for many leave the island daily in their rough-hewn barques for other parts and thus confirm our powers here : the world is open to them , they can wander abroad at liberty until they discover those skills of civility to settle a land and make it their own . |
| 27 | Another career handicap is , Jo believes , her reluctance to join the Aussie Brat Pack social circuit where ambitious young actors make it their business to seize the limelight and worm their way into gossip and social columns . |
| 28 | In contrast , Stephen Timewell , mayor of Taunton in 1682 – 3 , a man who prided himself as having " tamed these stubborn Fanatics " during his term in office , nevertheless found that he too had to " leave off my shop trade , for ever since I have done these things not one of a hundred comes near me to buy or sell and they make it their business to persuade people not to come near me " . |
| 29 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 30 | But the retention of a central earth , coupled with the mathematical advantages to be gained by having other planets orbiting the sun , commended his system to Jesuit astronomers who , by 1620 , were making it their own . |