Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] to make it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a passionate concern for the welfare of football in general , and was always on the lookout for ways to make it more efficient , more attractive and more popular , although naturally he wanted Arsenal to be in the forefront . |
| 2 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 3 | The vast bulk of delegated legislation is made with no reference to Parliament beyond the original delegation of power to make it by Parliament . |
| 4 | As a chairman , I did n't have to worry about finding a particular part to put in a piece of kit to make it work . |
| 5 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 6 | If your life is so rushed that you only have five to ten minutes for lunch , and your body knows that you have to consume at least 300–400 calories in order to make it through until the evening , it is going to look for a very convenient solution , and that means , high calorie , low volume food that is readily available , such as a chunky cheese sandwich , or worse still , a chocolate bar . |
| 7 | We have rounded off calorie values of meals to make it easy for you to add together your 450 — 1,100 calories allowed for the day ( in addition to your 400 from Fibre-Filler , fruit and milk ) ; we have also rounded off metric ingredient figures for easy measuring . |
| 8 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 9 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 10 | But we need the funding to stage the kind of programme to make it significant , and to lay the groundwork for more , and longer Glasgay ! s , perhaps every second year . ’ |
| 11 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |
| 12 | Even in situations where there is a published list covering the requirements of the type of library or the subject area to be indexed , this list is likely to require adjustment in order to make it compatible with local requirements . |
| 13 | In Rannie v Irvine ( 1844 ) 7 Man & G 969 Tindal CJ said " if the contract is reasonable at the time it is entered into , we are not bound to look out for improbable and extravangant contingencies in order to make it void " . |
| 14 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 15 | The Reich had been injecting money into Danzig to make it appear that Forster and his pals were able to find the resources to create employment projects through their superior management skills . |
| 16 | Frankie had scrubbed his hands and feet and dampened his hair with water to make it lie flat and tidy against his head . |
| 17 | We get chance after chance to make it right and what do we do ? |
| 18 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 19 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 20 | In proposing a cut of 10 per cent in the car tax , the society also suggested that there was a strong environmental case for reducing vehicle fuel taxation on diesel to make it significantly cheaper than petrol . |
| 21 | And we 'll need to have much more television coverage in order to make it happen . ’ |
| 22 | A tap-penalty try by Ian Campbell , who then kicked a penalty , put Bishops 7–0 ahead but the visitors scored a try before half-time to make it 7–4 . |
| 23 | The case of bakery workers provides a parallel : ‘ For those trying to survive , empty stretches of time must be structured , and an alternative content — some psychological colour — must be injected into the present in order to make it tolerable ’ . |
| 24 | Dried fruit , eggs and sugar , and ‘ a drop of rum to make it decent ’ added Mary Clarke , were mixed with the curds to make the filling for the pastry case . |
| 25 | Hence it was important to reduce levels of grant to make it clearer to voters what services actually cost . |
| 26 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 27 | The reserve forms part of the Teesside Development Corporation 's strategy to ‘ green ’ the area in order to make it more attractive to outside investors . |
| 28 | After Paul Barry struck probably the goal of the game from distance to make it 14-2 with almost half of the match left , 15-year-old former youth team player Founds stepped into the limelight with three goals and six assists . |
| 29 | DeFleur , in 1970 , saw a further element in the chain — feedback — which allows the transmitter to adapt his message in order to make it more effective and thus increase the chance of it reaching its destination clearly . |
| 30 | Humankind and the apes shared the vertebrate form because both were created by God , but Owen could stress the anatomical differences in order to make it clear that the one could never have evolved from the other . |