Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] made it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick . |
| 2 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 3 | It is certainly amongst the oldest of the European herbs , and it was its very pungency that made it popular with the palates of our tougher ancestors . |
| 4 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 5 | Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ . |
| 6 | My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us . |
| 7 | Michael felt sick suddenly , the choking kind that made it difficult to swallow . |
| 8 | The main reason for the flow of emigrants was the farm crisis in Europe , and the circumstance that made it possible was the availability of cheap steamers . |
| 9 | The rainwater washed away the topsoil and made it difficult to replant trees . |
| 10 | Her owner died , and she was living rough , so when she bounced into our kitchen and made it clear that that was where she wanted to stay in it was hard to turn her out , even though Fizzy finds a young and very playful cat rather a trial . |
| 11 | After dinner he played patience and made it clear that ‘ he had had enough of coal for the day ’ . |
| 12 | The county was overrun with underwood that made it impervious to the traveller . |
| 13 | But from his impassive , narrow-eyed face it was impossible to gauge his thoughts ; like many Annamese he had the kind of boyish appearance that made it difficult for an American to estimate his age . |
| 14 | Unemployment in the 1980s forced many older people into early retirement and made it difficult for others to find work . |
| 15 | Important debt agreements ended the country 's isolation from the international financial community and made it eligible for fresh multilateral agency loans . |
| 16 | Only last year the four-star Tiroler Adler underwent an extensive renovation that made it one of the best hotels in Kirchberg . |
| 17 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 18 | The immediate popularity and novelty of ITV 's programmes forced the BBC to review its output and made it aware of the need to survive in an increasingly competitive environment . |
| 19 | However , that was a matter which SACHR raised with me only this week and made it clear that it was a subject to which it would return . |
| 20 | On the latter part of the hon. Gentleman 's question , he will know that the Foreign Ministers of the European Community considered the subject earlier this week and made it plain that , when considering recognition , regard would be had to the extent to which the republics were ready to undertake the treaty obligations to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 21 | Darwin 's theory emphasized the interaction between organisms and their environment and made it clear that species could be driven to extinction when the conditions to which they were exposed changed too rapidly for them to cope . |
| 22 | How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ? |
| 23 | We cut a mask for my face out of a balaclava and made it black with boot polish . |
| 24 | We knew what lay down any other road : a political scandal that made it worthwhile for Parliament to get involved in Security . |
| 25 | The Grosvenor opened its doors in the 1920s as a focal point for preachers , and it was the sound of music that made it famous . |
| 26 | ‘ It was basically the novel that made it necessary for me to look into the Bible . |
| 27 | But there was something about Doyle 's voice that made it impossible to interrupt . |
| 28 | Delegates rejected the concept of a federal state and made it clear that they would only accept a proportional representation system based on one-person-one-vote in a unitary state . |
| 29 | They took any subject and made it manageable . |
| 30 | Alain collected the luggage and made it plain that he was not about to coax her . |