Example sentences of "[vb -s] make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule , combined with the rule against hearsay which prevents criminal courts admitting evidence of a child 's interviews with social workers or psychiatrists , has made it impossible to prosecute many alleged child abusers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That dispute has made it impossible to produce audited accounts . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 6 | Our success is due to you the readers , whose loyalty and support has made it all possible . |
| 7 | ‘ Helping others get a start has made it all worthwhile , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Says Frances , 53 , of Delamere Road , Ainsdale : ‘ I love meeting people and that is what has made it all so special . |
| 9 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The past year 's thaw has made it possible for at least 35 non-governmental organisations to open up offices . |
| 12 | This simplicity has made it possible to work out how particular aspects of behaviour are controlled . |
| 13 | We will complete the massive investment in new technology — Europe 's biggest computerisation project — that has made it possible to raise the quality of service to the public . |
| 14 | This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible . |
| 15 | Now an atheist computer has declared its lack of belief in these gentlemen and , to howls of delight from fundamentalists in both Jewish and Christian religions , has made it possible that Ol' Grampa Moses was the culprit after all . |
| 16 | The large size of the chamber , which permits the introduction of several specimens at one time , and the reduction in preparation time by removing the need to coat specimens has made it possible to scan much larger numbers of specimens than would normally be possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Research into fluorescent tube lighting , used widely in commercial and public buildings , has made it possible to save over 90 per cent of electricity . |
| 20 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 21 | More recently , the coming of photography has made it possible for even the least talented among us to produce our own pictorial records . |
| 22 | A recently patented process by the company Woodbenders has made it possible to make a made-to-measure arch with preformed wood or mdf . |
| 23 | On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS . |
| 24 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 25 | At the same time , the astonishing flowering of science and technology has made it possible to organise and exploit the world and its natural resources on a scale which no earlier civilisation could have imagined ; it has also bred a widely held belief , verging on the mythical or superstitious , that ‘ science is the solution to all our problems ’ . |
| 26 | Thus Boris ' failure has made it possible for Peggy to succeed ; his depression is the price of her exhilaration , his misery is the occasion of her rejoicing . |
| 27 | But the development of the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) and use of DNA sequence encoding 16S RNA ( 16S sequences ) in microbial phylogeny has made it possible to determine their phylogenetic position . |
| 28 | VenturCom 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support embedded X-Windows , reportedly a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed NFS on a diskless single-board computer via E-NFS . |
| 29 | VenturCom Inc 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support X-Windows , claimed to be a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed Network File System on a diskless single-board computer via the E-NFS facility . |
| 30 | Australian studies confirm the effectiveness of campaigns to reduce smoking with major mass media components ; the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation has made it possible for Quit to afford such components . |