Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 2 | That made it 10 for Robins this season , and all in front of his policeman dad , Chief Inspector Gordon , who was in charge of crowd control at the ground . |
| 3 | That made it 68 for 4 as the rain returned and 14 minutes nett went missing around the tea interval . |
| 4 | That made it 38 for 3 . |
| 5 | Did that make it easy for you to talk to him ? |
| 6 | And did that make it harder for you to do physics ? |
| 7 | Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ? |
| 8 | For example , erm , you sumo wrestling but would that make you fit for sprint racing ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 11 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 12 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 13 | This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures . |
| 14 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |
| 15 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |
| 16 | Prices were not going up too fast and again this made it economical for us to visit . |
| 17 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 18 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |
| 19 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 20 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 21 | ‘ This leaves it open for staff to use their ingenuity , good sense , and professionalism ’ . |
| 22 | This makes them useful for destroying tumours while leaving surrounding tissue unharmed . |
| 23 | This makes it possible for governments of all political persuasions to argue in favour of this policy . |
| 24 | This makes it possible for anybody to create a professionally polished performance that can then be shown to an audience using either the Mac itself , 35 mm slides or overhead projector foils , backed up with printed handouts and speaker notes . |
| 25 | This makes it awkward for the Fed to act early . |
| 26 | This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood . |
| 27 | This makes it useful for applications like electronic publishing , advertising , software distribution , interactive games , interactive television and distance learning . |
| 28 | This makes it harder for the people 's movement to make headway . |
| 29 | This makes it easier for the customer to move to a larger model in the range as his requirements increase , and eases the manufacturer 's problem of providing software for a number of different computers . |
| 30 | This makes it easier for the to smear their secretions around , leaving scent messages for other animals . |