Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is also expected to make it easier for foreign investors to take profits out of the country . |
| 2 | Previously there were many beginners ' boards available but most were supplied with a massive 6.5m 2 sail which stretched and distorted to make it unmanageable in more than a few knots of wind . |
| 3 | The exemption has been granted to make it easier for eastern companies to adapt to the new standards . |
| 4 | So , they have decided to throw it open to Europe-wide competition to decide our ‘ trade name ’ . |
| 5 | Some agencies prefer that provision should be made to make it easier for confused tenants to move on from sheltered housing . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had to keep it quiet for good reasons , and if I say much to Marc he 'll really go up the wall . |
| 7 | New friendship does not come easy to me , I feel compelled to play it rough at first — your idealism , for example , I had to find out whether it was capable of standing up ; testing and teasing , for me , are a kind of initiation — |
| 8 | In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment . |
| 9 | He might have been able to help him , but even if Ken had wanted to do it all without any assistance from his younger brother , he might at least have told him what he was doing . |
| 10 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 11 | Only when the Bill was amended to make it compulsory for local authorities to provide and maintain facilities for deaf children did the Liberal Government of the day allow the Bill to become law . |
| 12 | It looks as though the agreement of March 1186 had failed to make it clear beyond all possibility of argument whether or not the Angevins could keep the Vexin if Alice remained unmarried . |