Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 2 | Cheap newsprint ; new technology which made it possible to attract readers by printing illustrations relatively cheaply ; growing mass literacy , at least in western Europe ; mass newspaper readerships ; a resulting growth of mass public feeling , often emotional and volatile , on international questions : all these were now adding another element to the changing picture of relations between the European states . |
| 3 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 4 | President Alija Izetbegovic told reporters his meeting with mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was very short because of the ‘ bad news ’ from Bosnia which made it impossible to continue talks . |
| 5 | They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development . |
| 6 | In use , we liked the larger , rubber-padded vice pegs of the 750 , compared to the 536 , and the larger variety of possible positions , which made it easy to grip straight-sided , tapered or oddly-shaped items on the surface of the bench . |
| 7 | This followed the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , which made it easier to move funds between financial centres in different countries . |
| 8 | Operational problems were experienced at some of the less well positioned businesses which found it difficult to sustain market share in the current environment . |
| 9 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |