Example sentences of "[noun] make it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 2 | These will in most cases make it easier for tax exiles to acquire a foreign domicile . |
| 3 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 4 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 5 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 6 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 7 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 8 | In the first period of extra time , Alex Brown put Dynamos ahead and then Nick Crook made it 3–1 with just five minutes to go . |
| 9 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 10 | The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants . |
| 11 | The straight forward design and short wheel base made it ideal for negotiating the sharp curves of the Welshpool line . |
| 12 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 13 | Their long-lived presence made it possible for them to act as a kind of semi-permanent critique of newer cultural trends . |
| 14 | GLC funding made it possible for them to conduct a research project into the lives of young lesbians and gays . |
| 15 | Above : The rounded contours of the AquaWare Richmond suite make it perfect for period or adventurous homes |
| 16 | Gar-vey added the second and Macauley made it three from Hignett 's cross . |
| 17 | Stringent targets relating to carbon dioxide , sulphur dioxide and nox emissions make it difficult for coal to compete with other fuels , especially in power generation . |
| 18 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 19 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 20 | Their emphasis on the absolute centrality of heterosexual experience made it impossible for them to see that purity feminism had anything to offer , with its emphasis on celibacy , and its view of sex as male-defined , vicious and depraved . |
| 21 | Scotland opened promisingly but Benoit Bellot 's downwind , downfield punting made it difficult for the home side to sustain pressure . |
| 22 | In the book the strength of the climax is that his moral attitudes make it necessary for him to reach the girl before she becomes the wife of someone else , which he does . |
| 23 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 24 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 25 | Here he drank pastis with the mayors of the Basses-Alpes , and even found time to lecture on Edgar Allan Poe , although his new false teeth made it difficult for him to speak French . |
| 26 | It also notes that teachers ' present contracts make it difficult for them to find time to run extra-curricular activities like choirs . |
| 27 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 28 | In fact , the erratic supplies of kerosene and LPG make it impossible for many middle-class families to rely on one source of energy . |
| 29 | Gillian Murphy ( Mrs Seagrave ) has three young children and found that her career break made it difficult for her to get back into her chosen field of computer programming . |
| 30 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |