Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 2 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 3 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |
| 4 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |
| 5 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 6 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
| 7 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 8 | Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) . |
| 9 | In fact , computing people add yet another layer to this stack of definitions , though they very rarely make it explicit . |
| 10 | LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder . |
| 11 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 12 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 13 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 14 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's so much , as you say , and everyone else seems to them to be doing well enough to enjoy it all . |
| 16 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 17 | The fact that a water is potable does not , however , necessarily make it suitable for textile purposes . |
| 18 | We have all heard it many , many times . |
| 19 | ‘ They will merely make it easy for the Government to mobilize the military and send the settlers deeper into the area ’ . |
| 20 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 21 | However , I should perhaps make it clear that the position I have outlined is a very extreme form of inductivism . |
| 22 | And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare . |
| 23 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 24 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 25 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’ |
| 27 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 28 | The project team can not guarantee that the product will be so exploited , it can only make it possible . |
| 29 | The project team can not guarantee that the product will be so exploited , it can only make it possible . |
| 30 | I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year . |