Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] made [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 2 | The increasing impact of nuclear weapons upon military planning and the perceived importance of maintaining the integrity of a future theatre of operations made it necessary to standardise doctrine and training and , hence , provide a more integrated forum for addressing joint military requirements . |
| 3 | The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants . |
| 4 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 5 | The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph . |
| 6 | He studied medicine for two years but the sight of blood made him sick so , always a lover of shopping , he defected to the world of retail . |
| 7 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 8 | The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets . |
| 9 | Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue . |
| 10 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |
| 11 | Although he acknowledged that there had " been no sign of flexibility " during his talks with Hammadi , Rafsanjani asked rhetorically why he should not meet Saddam Hussein " if there is hope for the salvation of the Iraqi nation " , and added that it would be " logical " to talk to the US administration if the pursuit of peace made it necessary . |
| 12 | His lack of possessiveness made him fearless . |
| 13 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 14 | The sudden cool of evening made it advisable to keep the cooking fire alive and in the morning a cold , heavy dew dripped from the leaves . |
| 15 | And if the vagaries of distribution made it difficult to get It there were others on hand more than willing to give the new paper , Indica , and the new culture a boost . |
| 16 | The closely-knit corps of torturers made it difficult for a torturer to give up his job . |
| 17 | Although the lack of signposts made it difficult to locate the road to Rennes-le-Chateau , I eventually found it and trudged the 4.7km to the village . |
| 18 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 19 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 20 | The lack of foliage made it easier to focus , with binoculars , on individual songsters : chaff inch , blackbird , song thrush , mistle thrush , wren , dunnock , blue tie , great tie , coal tie , nuthatch and tree creeper . |
| 21 | This power of control made it possible to enact the Alkali Works Act of 1863 , the first act to provide a quantitative measure of pollution control . |
| 22 | He had been ordered not to tell anyone , not even his pregnant wife , until the letter of appointment made it all official . |
| 23 | The gaekwar of Baroda made him diwan in 1873 but Naoroji left after thirteen unhappy months . |
| 24 | George Frank ( Textiles ) Ltd ( [ 1976 ] AC 443 ) the House of Lords made it clear that the Court of Appeal is bound by decisions of the House of Lords whatever its views as to the correctness of those decisions . |
| 25 | Yesterday , the EC observers in the conflict areas of Yugoslavia made it clear that they were not in favour of rapid diplomatic recognition of Croatia , which they say would wreck the prospects for negotiating a settlement of the war and increase the chance of hostilities spreading to other parts of the collapsed federation . |
| 26 | He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books . |
| 27 | His distrust of the power of critics made him ready to jibe at David Sylvester . |
| 28 | However , postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building . |
| 29 | Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community . |
| 30 | In further Parliamentary answers given in March and October 1985 , the Secretary of State made it clear : ( i ) that if the tariff was to be 20 years or more , there would be a local review committee review after 17 years ; and ( ii ) that the procedure announced by Mr. Brittan in November 1983 applied to discretionary as well as to mandatory life sentences . |