Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 2 | But the loss of military independence , industrial capacity , employment and markets that such a policy would involve has always made it unacceptable to Western European governments and electorates , including our own . |
| 3 | In effect we must differentiate ( 6 ) with respect to and set it equal to zero . |
| 4 | But any persons accepting a cheque marked ‘ not negotiable ’ must take it subject to any defect in title . |
| 5 | The user finds it difficult to narrow down his or her search . |
| 6 | The precise number of homeworkers is hard to assess , and so is their real pay , for many of them do piece-work , and find it hard to calculated how much they do . |
| 7 | ‘ The course is drying up quickly and you could almost call it good to soft . |
| 8 | The EEA contains the deposits of the UK 's gold and convertible foreign currency reserves that are used to intervene in the exchange markets to stabilise the exchange rate of sterling , or to raise it or lower it relative to other currencies . |
| 9 | I shall make it clear to those moronic malcontents on the terraces that I have no intention of quitting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |
| 12 | But the violent character of the BUF and its unashamed adoption of foreign symbols made it unattractive to many who might otherwise have agreed with some of its policies , and made it doubly obnoxious to the Left . |
| 13 | They made it clear to all their colleagues who took part in that operation , and to the Press and observers at the briefing , that they will be supporting the community today , tomorrow and thereafter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The USA also made it clear to Israeli officials that any Israeli military involvement in the crisis would cause a radical shift in the already unstable Arab ranks , possibly leading a number of those currently allied to the USA to side instead with Iraq . |
| 16 | The District committee relented ; withdrew their objections and Jacques made it clear to Green it was only through his personal intervention and tenacity as the General Secretary that ‘ the WEA had been saved from disaster , and that this agreement represented , in fact , the charter which gives us continued and autonomous existence ’ . |
| 17 | Marx sees such an argument as a subtle legitimation of private property as it existed in his time , because it made it basic to human nature . |
| 18 | They secured a debate , which led to the adoption on 21 January 1965 of a Resolution noting ‘ with approval the efforts of local authorities to reorganise secondary education on comprehensive lines which will preserve all that is valuable in grammar school education for those children who now receive it and make it available to more children ’ . |
| 19 | In order to restrict the circulation of information memoranda , we require recipients of the memorandum to supply us with a letter confirming that they will treat the information contained therein as strictly private and confidential and will not disclose or otherwise make it available to third party . |
| 20 | You should aim at very least to talk to two or three financial institutions or other specialists such as insurance brokers and make it clear to all of them that you are doing so . |
| 21 | The object of clarifying butter is to rid it of water , buttermilk sediment , salt and any foreign matter which ( a ) for purposes of frying cause the butter to blacken and burn , and ( b ) render it susceptible to eventual rancidity . |
| 22 | The prediction is made more precise by making it equal to 1,290 days and then adding another 45 days ( 12.11–12 ) — to the despair of the modern interpreter , — but probably to the complete satisfaction of the contemporary reader who read the prophecy just when it had been fulfilled . |
| 23 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 24 | Engineering a time delayed ‘ lethal gene ’ into a GEM to give it a finite life — making it sensitive to low air temperatures so that frost kills it — is one way . |
| 25 | That is what is making it attractive to private buyers , whereas here the Government naively believes the opposite , that privatisation of itself will do the trick . |
| 26 | This view involves an updating of what is essentially a Brechtian formulation : self-consciousness in formal terms will induce a socio-political prise de conscience on the part of the audience/readership , making it hostile to repressive ideological discourses . |
| 27 | Perhaps inevitably , this left it open to attempted incorporation by behaviourist psychology : Burgess and Akers ( 1966 ) provided a translation of differential association into the language of behaviourist ‘ reinforcement ’ theory . |
| 28 | He is quoted as saying : This formulation left it open to those in the electorate who were disenchanted with nationalisation to suppose that there would be little if any more , and to those on the left wing of the Labour Party to expect that there would still be a lot . |
| 29 | The crucial factor in the development of bureaucracy in communist states has been the impossibility of democratizing administration , of throwing it open to literate lay people as Lenin wanted . |
| 30 | After the planning committee has considered the planning application they may decide to approve it , refuse it , or approve it subject to certain conditions . |