Example sentences of "[adj] made it [adj] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Prices were not going up too fast and again this made it economical for us to visit . |
| 15 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 16 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |
| 17 | That was unthinkable to the British generals , even though Napoleon III made it clear to Lord Palmerston that he did not intend to usurp the command and so the problem would not arise . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most important achievement of Nicholas 's reign was the codification of the laws : the publication of an authoritative digest in 1835 made it possible at least to begin to impose standard procedures on the bureaucracy . |
| 19 | The ways cards made spending — and overspending — so easy and painless made it difficult for people not to treat the plastic rectangles as money . |
| 20 | New policing strategies The commitment of large numbers of police officers to the task of keeping the pits open made it impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers to achieve a total shut-down in domestic coal production . |
| 21 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 22 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |