Example sentences of "made it [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( iv ) The canals made it easy to bring these materials together .
2 The resultant political disunity , probably exacerbated by quarrels over the best methods to adopt against the Scandinavians , and coupled with the king 's apparent inability to provide the necessary leadership , made it impossible to assemble successful armies .
3 The all embracing structure of the nation as a family headed by the Emperor , made it impossible to challenge particular aspects of the social order without calling into question the ultimate authority of the Emperor .
4 The detailed demographic studies of Ranunculus repens made by Sarukhán in the field at Henfaes and followed by unpublished studies by Soane made it possible to give quantitative measures to the population dynamics of this species .
5 The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph .
6 Half television , half microscope , Roberts 's invention made it possible to magnify living tissues up to 25,000 times , against an ordinary miscroscope 's 5,000 times .
7 Novel methods of analysis made it possible to do chemical separations in minutes instead of days or weeks .
8 At this point the cycloaracylation process was discovered by Bayer , which made it possible to produce this type of substance .
9 Mrs Bottomley said Prof Day was ‘ quite right ’ that AIDS remained a very serious threat but added that new statistics made it possible to frame future policy ‘ according to facts , not fantasy ’ .
10 This approach ( as opposed to relying on remote link via a telephone line ) made it possible to provide interactive analyses during negotiation meetings .
11 In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material .
12 It had been the intention to incorporate part of the old casual ward , to the east of the infirmary but in the course of the preparatory work it was found that the old buildings were bug-infested to an extent which made it undesirable to use any part of them .
13 Most grammar schools were single sex ; mixed schools were usually provided only where the sparseness of the population made it impracticable to provide separate schools for boys and girls .
14 The high cost of rail transport made it difficult to sell fresh fish to the main English market .
15 These limitations affected the size of the sample and also made it difficult to employ such procedures as the multiple judging of rating scales .
16 The keyboard duet had only recently become a viable medium , since the restricted compass of earlier instruments made it difficult to seat two players at one keyboard .
17 But variety made it difficult to maintain consistent quality .
18 However , postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building .
19 This system made it difficult to provide sufficient cover to care for patients above safety or custodial observation levels .
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