Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 2 | He clearly saw that the extended nature of Rommel 's supply lines made them extremely vulnerable to attack and that destruction of port facilities would severely limit his ability to wage war . |
| 3 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 4 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 5 | Supermarket trolleys have to be fairly cheap and brakes would make them less economical to produce . |
| 6 | Among the birds , body-armour is absent for the obvious reason that it would make them too heavy to fly . |
| 7 | This poses the danger of weeds crossbreeding with genetically engineered crops , which will allow them to inherit traits that will make them better able to survive drought , frost or pests . |
| 8 | Local authorities took to the fashion of developing management and political processes , and institutional structures , which would make them more able to plan , control and review their activities , commensurate with their resources . |
| 9 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 10 | This in turn could make them more likely to survive a second mutation at the p53 locus ( which is frequently seen in cancer cells ) , or indeed at any other locus . |
| 11 | Diabetic patients may have a damaged myocardium due to extensive atheroma and/or small-vessel cardiomyopathy before infarction ( Hamby et al , 1974 ; Regan et al , 1977 ; Factor et al , 1980 ) , which would make them more likely to develop cardiogenic shock or heart failure . |
| 12 | Dunleavy ( 1982 : 190–7 ) , using the example of the British civil nuclear industry , argues that the ‘ professional ’ ethos of public enterprise specialists may strengthen their links with their professional colleagues outside the state and hence make them less susceptible to control by state agencies . |
| 13 | So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like . |
| 14 | The authors argue that this is not evidence that their model is incorrect or inapplicable to treated cases , but that , to a certain extent , the factors which make women vulnerable to depression also make them less likely to receive psychiatric help . |
| 15 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 16 | The ‘ characters ’ ( the only real selling point ) make them extremely awkward to use , and the licences have taken a hefty toll on the price — a wallet-busting £12.99 ! |
| 17 | Their speed and agility make them extremely hard to kill . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) those whose circumstances make them highly likely to experience an event to which they are particularly vulnerable ; |
| 19 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 20 | Choose a pair of combination pliers with fine and coarse serrated jaws and a wire cutter near the pivot point ; plastic hand grips make them more comfortable to use , and also provide protection against the risk of shock during electrical jobs . |
| 21 | Having tried out these various methods you might consider them too time-consuming to use for large areas but they are so attractive that they can be put to good use as trimmings . |
| 22 | I found them very easy to use — you simply twist the grips on the handlebars and the indexed gears click into place . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're only home-made , but I found them very useful to practise with . ’ |
| 24 | Political considerations may have made them less inclined to return to China , but it was generally not a major reason for leaving in the first place . |
| 25 | P.C. Well , Sir , I have always endeavoured to keep my beat clean , and I have seen people committing perhaps but technical offences , but I have not thought them sufficiently serious to caution them . |
| 26 | ‘ It would cost them too much to do a one-off in the normal way and we offered a cheap alternative . |
| 27 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 28 | He finds them very difficult to follow . |
| 29 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 30 | Mostly , they bought on credit because they did not have the cash , or because it would take them too long to save it up . |