Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adj] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 2 | Microsoft is now trying to market Windows as a stepping stone to OS/2 , by making it easy for users of Windows and writers of programs for Windows to migrate to OS/2 eventually . |
| 3 | France : Since a law making it compulsory for employers to offer hepatitis B vaccination to healthcare employees was passed in January 1991 , usage of vaccine has risen nearly four-fold . |
| 4 | ADVANCES in microelectronics are making it possible for countries to switch to a military strategy that is purely for defence and has no offensive capability — if they want to . |
| 5 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 6 | The opportunity was taken to provide the different subjects with their own suites of rooms making it possible for Departments to stamp their characters on their surroundings . |
| 7 | In factories and workshops , advances in machine technology had deskilled numerous working-class jobs , thus making it possible for employers to replace skilled men with successive relays of unskilled boys , and at lower wages . |
| 8 | The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 . |
| 9 | Grass and weeds are growing onto the footway and making it impossible for parents with pushchairs to use if . |
| 10 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 11 | 1 ) JOBS — The upper parts of the Himalayas are covered with snow throughout the year making it impossible for animals and people to live there . |
| 12 | Social tension would reach explosion point , making it easier for conservatives to restore administrative methods . |
| 13 | Therefore , the argument goes , governments should try to manage the rationalisation by making it easier for companies to co-operate across borders . |
| 14 | Apart from making it easier for customers to shop at their stores , retailers started their own store card or charge card schemes as a way of adding to their ancillary profits — and reducing outgoings by not having to pay the banks so much for their credit card schemes . |
| 15 | IBM also says that AD/Cycle and AIX CASE tool builders will be able to support both OS/2 and AIX development systems ‘ with a minimum of incremental effort ’ which seems to suggest that the same will apply to applications developed with either , making it easier for users to hedge their bets by making their new mainframe applications migratable to the generality of Unix environments . |
| 16 | The Society of Practitioners of Insolvency 's technical director , Gerry Weiss , said that recent cases were making it easier for administrators to obtain and exchange information . |
| 17 | The commission favours comprehensive education , making it easier for children to transfer between groups . |
| 18 | Maps are concrete representations of what is otherwise abstract ; they can become an important part of the reflective process , making it easier for children to understand the meaning of their work . |
| 19 | Of course that 's just making it easier for manufacturers is n't it really the car |
| 20 | SMCC is allegedly telling customers SunSoft products can only be run on Sun hardware , making it harder for Sparcettes to snare the upgrade business . |
| 21 | The army sealed the border with Pakistan , making it harder for terrorists to buy weapons and seek sanctuary . |
| 22 | No roads , just a pool , separate it from the sea making it ideal for families . |
| 23 | There is a lovely sandy beach which is in a sheltered by making it ideal for watersports and the sea here is beautifully warm . |
| 24 | Competitive firms are often thought to lack the resources to do effective R&D , and vigorous price competition means that all of the gains to innovation are passed on to consumers , making it difficult for firms to generate the profits necessary to finance R&D . |
| 25 | The SEC 's case , according to BASF finance director Max Dietrich Kley , is that the chemical giant 's figures understate profits , making it difficult for investors to compare them with those of other concerns . |
| 26 | But he was also occupying space behind the defenders , making it difficult for attackers to get in on passes . ’ |
| 27 | No public inquiry report has yet been written in the ICAO format , making it difficult for researchers into air safety matters to extract the information they are looking for . |
| 28 | Police officers who have taken statements from detainees will also be exempted from being questioned in court unless they agree to do so , making it difficult for detainees to challenge the validity of any confessions made under torture . |
| 29 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 30 | Such policies have an impact on new , emergent industrial nations as export markets and revenues are curtailed thus making it difficult for LDCs to service external debts . |