Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That made it a perfect victim for the advance loans ' fraud . |
2 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
3 | This made it a greater challenge later on . |
4 | This made it an easy room to clean , no one would want to come in while she was working . |
5 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
6 | The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 made it a legal requirement for Police Authorities to maintain consultative arrangements on behalf of the local community . |
7 | Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all . |
8 | They all thought it a great joke . |
9 | This challenge to the state-centric outlook shared by Idealism and Realism ( and Behaviouralism ) was not a novel one , but the world of the 1970s gave it a new strength . |
10 | The academy was handicapped from the beginning by shortage of money ; and Torcy 's fall from office in October 1715 dealt it a severe blow . |
11 | The empiricism and opportunism of British foreign policy , its reluctance to embark on long-range plans , its dislike of large commitments and its responsiveness to public opinion all gave it a deceptive appearance of unprincipledness . |
12 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
13 | That gave it a high spot on her list of things to put out of commission . |
14 | She knew that they both considered it a good solution to the difficulties existing at present , and this was disturbing . |