Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 2 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 3 | That made it 10 for Robins this season , and all in front of his policeman dad , Chief Inspector Gordon , who was in charge of crowd control at the ground . |
| 4 | That made it all scarier . |
| 5 | That made it essential to continue making contact with France via regular radio broadcasts and to forge links with French communities abroad . |
| 6 | That made it 68 for 4 as the rain returned and 14 minutes nett went missing around the tea interval . |
| 7 | That made it better but not really good enough . |
| 8 | That made it 38 for 3 . |
| 9 | ‘ That made it worse , you see . |
| 10 | I tried to move away from him but that made it worse . |
| 11 | That made it worse , somehow . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 13 | That made it worse . ’ |
| 14 | That made it 24-0 and the game effectively over and yet there were as many points to come . |
| 15 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 16 | It was crowded inside , but that made it warmer . |
| 17 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 18 | The Bakufu 's inability to demonstrate military superiority over Choshú0 late in 1866 made it apparent to all that the Tokugawa no longer possessed the force majeure on which their power ultimately depended , and with their opponents allied with each other under the banner of imperial rule the Tokugawa 's fate was sealed . |
| 19 | Whether or not this advance notice had any bearing on the government 's response , when the subpoenas were served on 29 September , the FBI , the DEA , the State Department , the National Security Agency , the CIA and the National Security Council each made it clear that they had no intention of complying with them . |
| 20 | A greater distance from the events of 1680s made it easier for people to develop a nostalgic longing for the return of the exiled Stuarts as the solution to the nation 's ills . |
| 21 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 22 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 23 | Also in 1948 , a State of Emergency was declared in Malaya , but here the British made it clear that they would stand and fight . |
| 24 | The news that the police were interested made it imperative to get the body away at once — and the river was the obvious ally . |
| 25 | However , the steadily increasing weight of express trains in the 1890s made it obvious that more powerful locomotives would be required . |
| 26 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 27 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 28 | This made it worse . |
| 29 | This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures . |
| 30 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |