Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I know that in some parts of the country , notably in the north-east , one or two local authorities have made it rather difficult for protective street furniture to be erected along the sides of roads where there has been ram-raiding . |
2 | The rise in house prices , which has recently done so much to increase the capital owned by a sizeable group of the population , has made it increasingly difficult for other people , and particularly those whose parents are poorer and who do not own a house , to join the ranks of the upwardly mobile , capital-accumulating home-owners . |
3 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
4 | but there are very few that have made it really big in this country . |
5 | The fining of airlines plus the fact that the nationals of many refugee-producing countries now need visas to travel to this country , has made it extremely difficult for many people wishing to apply for asylum , to reach the UK . |
6 | ODT was designed originally as a desktop product , but the addition of MPX multi-processing extensions has made it more popular in multi-user environments : it requires an 80386 personal computer with 8Mb RAM , 100Mb disk and VGA graphics as minimum to run . |
7 | ( 1 ) Changes in the ways that schools are managed and funded have made it more difficult for Christian Aid to relate to schools . |
8 | These obstacles have made it very difficult for British companies to launch takeovers on the continent , despite the fact that in 1988 the aggregate value of foreign takeovers in the UK amounted to around £35 billion , which was 73% by value of the EC total , followed by France with a mere 10% of the takeovers ; in 1990 over £30 billion worth of UK firms fell into foreign ownership , that is over four times the comparable figure in France , Germany or Spain . |
9 | Milligan has crammed it so full of Victorian antiques , paintings and illustrations that the cement is hidden by memorabilia . |
10 | ‘ We have n't had it so bad for 22 years , ’ fumed Sir Brian Hill , president of the Building Employers Confederation . |
11 | I 've never found it very successful with big things , very |
12 | Pippin 's grievances had , unsurprisingly , nothing to do with Alemannia but a lot to do with his father 's interference in and around Aquitaine which had once , of course , been Louis 's own realm ( he had ruled it as sub-king from 781 to 814 ) . |
13 | I 've put it very similar to that of the nine o'clock one really . |