Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose stared at the table , imagining it full of people , talking — but surely not blind . |
| 2 | If a local merchant then buys wine and decants it into re-sealable quarter-litre bottles , selling it retail at $1.00 per bottle , two effects might be observed . |
| 3 | The second buyers compounded the goods into food for birds and the third buyers bought the compound and fed it to poultry which died because , unknown to anyone at the time of supply , the compound included minute traces of poison rendering it unfit for poultry . |
| 4 | It is hard to describe it all to people who were n't there . |
| 5 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |
| 6 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 7 | Of course that 's so hard , they do n't make it pointless for people to find jobs that they do n't declare their income , so that means test would encourage the black economy . |
| 8 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 9 | Anna Marsden , director of the foundation which was established to raise new funds for voluntary work , said the gulf could make it difficult for people to seek help . |
| 10 | The trick is how can you make it attractive to people so they say , ’ That 's a good idea . ’ |
| 11 | For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom ( v. 21 ) . |
| 12 | Just as the introduction of word processing made it easier for people to produce and maintain large documents , so desktop publishing makes it easier for those same people to produce professional looking publications . |
| 13 | Just as the introduction of word processing made it easier for people to produce and maintain large documents so desktop publishing makes it easier for those same people to produce professional looking publications . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Secrecy created by the mixture of large state bureaucracies and the military connection made it difficult for people like Professor Jeffery to get hold of any meaningful figures . |
| 16 | The ways cards made spending — and overspending — so easy and painless made it difficult for people not to treat the plastic rectangles as money . |
| 17 | However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus . |
| 18 | The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock . |
| 19 | So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day . |
| 20 | They mean they make it , in many situations , make it pointless of people to try and found jobs . |
| 21 | The members of the Highlands and Islands Development Board consider how the landscape and the climate make it difficult for people ( i ) to farm successfully ; ( ii ) to manage profitable industries , which use raw materials and fuel and sell goods to the large cities ; ( iii ) to obtain adequate services , such as hospitals , schools , and electricity or gas . |
| 22 | Bringing empty private sector dwellings back into use will extend choice , make it easier for people to move jobs , and help tackle homelessness . |
| 23 | ClubCall are making it easy for People readers to vote by telephone if they choose not to use the voting form on Page 41 . |
| 24 | Sir , — There is a small but growing voice to be heard expressing the desire for the introduction of the Australian system of making it compulsory for people to vote in political elections . |
| 25 | The other areas earmarked by Alvey 's group are : software engineering ; ways of making it easier for people to communicate with computers ; and methods of cramming more electronic components onto a chip . |
| 26 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 27 | Freedom of movement and establishment of people making it easier for people to move around , live and work within Europe . |
| 28 | Tim in particular will have to learn how to lower his centre of gravity by spreading his legs , making it harder for people to knock him over . |
| 29 | The hormone progestogen taken regularly every day at the same time causes changes making it difficult for sperm to enter the womb or for the womb to accept a fertilised egg . |
| 30 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |