Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj -er] for " in BNC.

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1 The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock .
2 They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights .
3 At the same time , SunSelect also unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition .
4 Sun has the backing of ICL Plc and Fujitsu Ltd as well as Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp for Wabi and for its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition .
5 At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition .
6 Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat .
7 TransAction should , therefore , reduce delays and make it easier for the consumer to understand the process in partnership with their solicitors .
8 Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track .
9 We will reform benefits for people with disabilities and make it easier for those available for work to take employment .
10 At first glance it appears that Braudel has merely hit on a convenient fashion of dividing up the past , to bring it under control and make it easier for historians to encompass .
11 and make it easier for the parent to understand whether this is good or bad .
12 Britain is pressing the UN to rotate troops to ease the burden on individual countries and make it easier for nations to offer forces for the growing number of peacekeeping duties around the world .
13 Dr Walter Kilner developed some screens filled with a dicyanin solution which sensitized the eyes and made it easier for more people to see the aura .
14 Technological advances in manufacturing have raised the quality of most goods and made it easier for competitors to copy one another 's innovations — which are , anyway , typically minor and increasingly rare .
15 If it is possible to use the same basic pattern for a number of guides , this has the advantage of both saving the librarian 's time and making it easier for the user to transfer search techniques from one discipline to another .
16 The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate .
17 The government 's plan is that tax-dodging is suddenly to be made dramatically more difficult , by reorganising the tax-collecting system and making it easier for the taxman to spot the dodgers .
18 The white underside of a puffin or penguin swimming on the sea merges with the sky and makes it harder for fish to spot danger overhead .
19 When the net has been pursed and brought to the side of the boat , the seiner can release the tension on the headrope of the net by the backdown procedure , which enables the back of the net with the finer mesh to sink and makes it easier for dolphins to escape , while the tuna continue to swim around in the net below .
20 This method gives children a clear idea of how groups of words relate to each other and makes it easier for them to remember new words and meanings .
21 Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices .
22 Inclusion of the Adobe Type manager and Type 1 fonts allows for the use of existing Adobe fonts from DOS disks , and makes it easier for developers to port over applications from Windows , OS/2 and Mac 's .
23 For Italians it is almost always ‘ the more , the merrier ’ and to make it easier for you to party as a party , we have a special group offer which gives one free place for every 20 paying customers .
24 On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care .
25 If he is to practise standing up , the plinth height may be raised , so that he is perched on the edge with his legs fairly straight : this reduces the support under his seat , but makes it easier for him to stand .
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