Example sentences of "[modal v] make it [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its rugged construction and large memory may make it suitable for experiment ; but at £3400 it is far too expensive for widespread use in the Third World . |
| 2 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 3 | The Housing Act 1974 adds to the above criteria of ‘ unfitness ’ a list of certain ‘ standard amenities ’ , the absence of which does not render a dwelling unfit but may make it eligible for improvement grants . |
| 4 | Outsiders believe the charges may make it difficult for SCO to go public until they are resolved . |
| 5 | On the proposal that the training contract should make it possible for employers to recover the cost of their investment in training , the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred can be reflected in the contract . |
| 6 | This should make it easier for students to gain access to higher education and to progress to higher levels of education by building on previous achievements ; and I welcome this development . ’ |
| 7 | The effects of the international division of labour should make it easier for workers in these countries to discard their role of real or supposed world labour aristocracy and recognise that their fate on the world labour market is inseparably linked with that of their fellow workers in the underdeveloped countries . |
| 8 | This method should make it easier for libraries to absorb the changes . |
| 9 | Compact should make it easier for schools to find industrial advisers for Mini-Enterprise and to increase the range of activities undertaken . |
| 10 | ‘ It is close to other prestige schemes which should make it attractive to developers . |
| 11 | It is close to other prestige schemes which should make it attractive to developers . |
| 12 | Certainly , you should make it clear by words or conduct that you are exercising your right to treat yourself as having been dismissed . |
| 13 | She must make it impossible for Theda to refuse . |
| 14 | We must make it clear to students that they can appeal against their rent to a tribunal so that the tribunal can decide whether the landlord is overcharging them on the council tax element . |
| 15 | ‘ They 'll make it official on Monday . ’ |
| 16 | It might make it easier for girls at the foreclosure stage to accept science so recruitment might increase . |
| 17 | Anna Marsden , director of the foundation which was established to raise new funds for voluntary work , said the gulf could make it difficult for people to seek help . |
| 18 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 19 | It would help to reduce the caseload and so permit the conditions of the Patient 's Charter to be met and would make it possible for consultants to be more involved in the routine care of patients , both emergency and elective , and so diminish the responsibilities of junior doctors for service commitment . |
| 20 | Conservative MP Peter Ainsworth has introduced a bill which would make it compulsory for farmers to notify the planning authority of any plans to destroy hedgerows . |
| 21 | The National Consumer Council ( NCC ) is pressing for legislation that would make it compulsory for home-sellers to reveal property faults and potential problems to buyers , and make estate agents liable for the accuracy of the details they publish . |
| 22 | Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction . |
| 23 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 24 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 25 | Extension of electrification to Blackpool would make it economic for BR to restore the London — Blackpool Intercity link , withdrawn in 1992 because of the cost of changing traction at Preston . |
| 26 | Firstly , it would make it easier for users who are unfamiliar with keyboards to communicate with the computer by using their normal handwriting . |
| 27 | Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them . |
| 28 | A number of bills before Congress would make it easier for states to block imports of waste . |
| 29 | Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said at the time this would make it easier for firms to obtain money . |
| 30 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |