Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 2 | ‘ I could have done it all for you with one phone call if you had let me . ’ |
| 3 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 4 | He loved the tough life of thrill and fear and his excellent war record had made it easy for him when , in 1941 he had decided to apply to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 5 | This had made it easy for him to reach the traps as there were no banks here as such , just fiats of mud and rock . |
| 6 | In the past we 've always made it easy for you . |
| 7 | It is almost as though fate is saying , Look , I 've made it easy for you ; just get on with it , do it . |
| 8 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 9 | A dozen or more examples of the soulboy 's discourse have made it impossible for us to listen to virtually any ‘ black ’ record with any real pleasure , without ghastly phrases like ‘ pride and dignity ’ popping into our heads . |
| 10 | As had happened previously , the fines were paid anonymously but the magistrates had made it impossible for an outsider to defuse the situation on this occasion by also binding them over to keep the peace . |
| 11 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 12 | You 've made it impossible for him to change his mind , with your carry-on in public . |
| 13 | The domination of the media by the belligerent Anglo-American perspective has made it impossible for audiences in Britain to realise the enormity of the damage inflicted by the Gulf war on the West 's relationship with the so-called Third World . |
| 14 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 15 | The low level of the aircraft on entering the Harbour and its speed , would have made it impossible for heavy anti-aircraft guns to depress and traverse to follow the aircraft and even difficult for 30mm cannon such as Bofors , even when the aircraft climbed to sixty feet to drop its torpedo . |
| 16 | When Edmund Wilson attended a performance of The Confidential Clerk , however , he found it " rudimentary " ; everyone in London seemed to agree with him but , he said , " respect for Eliot had made it impossible for anyone to commit himself by printing a sincere opinion " . |
| 17 | In areas where the inflation of housing prices has made it impossible for many local people to obtain their own homes , the sight of outsiders purchasing houses when they already have one elsewhere can be an affront to local dignity . |
| 18 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 19 | Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient " |
| 20 | If surprise had n't made it impossible for Isabel to prevaricate , her quick blush would certainly have betrayed her . |
| 21 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 22 | The Anglo-American special relationship , on the other hand , is as alive as ever , and has made it possible for us to buy advanced US weapon systems like Polaris and Trident on very favourable terms . |
| 23 | The past year 's thaw has made it possible for at least 35 non-governmental organisations to open up offices . |
| 24 | The realities of modern medical technology have made it possible for doctors to extend the process of dying through the use , for example , of what are colloquially , but perhaps inaptly , called ‘ life-support ’ machines . |
| 25 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 26 | Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years . |
| 27 | It is this all important human love between parent and child , particularly the mother , that could well be the origin of the power which has made it possible for there to be established within the human mind this thing we call a ‘ conscience ’ . |
| 28 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 29 | More recently , the coming of photography has made it possible for even the least talented among us to produce our own pictorial records . |
| 30 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |