Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then maybe you were supposed to cry over milk , because it helped preserve it , or made it easier to turn into cheese . |
| 2 | If you 've ever drilled into a water pipe or found it difficult to get a good fixing on a wall , you need a Rapitest Wire , Pipe & Stud Detector . |
| 3 | Not every older person wants to be in the company of peers , or find it difficult to include younger people among their circle of friends . |
| 4 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 5 | Like others , BOC was seeking to create advantages from an international presence and make it possible to do things a purely local operator could not afford . |
| 6 | It may still be necessary to avoid certain food items or undergo other forms of treatment , but it should speed the body 's recovery , and make it possible to return to a more normal diet sooner . |
| 7 | In this document the case for the nationalisation of key industries was argued on practical grounds in each instance : thus ‘ public ownership of the fuel and power industries ’ would ‘ bring great economies in operation and make it possible to modernise production methods and to raise safety standards ’ ; ‘ public ownership of inland transport ’ would mean ‘ co-ordination of transport services by rail , road and canal ’ ; and the iron and steel industry would become efficient ‘ only if public ownership replaces private monopoly ’ . |
| 8 | Others , including Edwin Kerr and the Reverend Dr George Tolley , Principal of Sheffield City Polytechnic and Chairman of the new Committee , believed that the split would enable greater attention to be given to business and management courses , and make it possible to involve the business and management community more in the work of the Committee . |
| 9 | This is compounded , second , by cross-cutting political objectives that conflict with the achievement of clear financial targets and make it difficult to hold management to account for its actions . |
| 10 | There is also a danger that the reforms will enshrine the division between primary , secondary , and tertiary care and make it difficult to coordinate their activities and to move funds from one sector to another . |
| 11 | This will cause emotional disharmony and make it difficult to act effectively in any way at all . |
| 12 | Who needs wheel spats that collect debris and make it difficult to maintain the brakes , particularly when the engine is only 160hp in an airframe capable of taking 250 ? |
| 13 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Any other scheme could lead to great difficulties of inequality and make it harder to recruit from those groups we need to reach . ’ |
| 15 | Unlike chlorination , which is designed to treat the water and make it safe to drink , fluoridation is meant to influence a human physiological process — the mineralisation of tooth enamel . |
| 16 | When turning completely it is always preferable to turn by leaning the sail over the back of the board ( a tack ) since this will turn the board into wind and make it easier to return from where you set out . |
| 17 | Advertisers love the new sections because they provide choice and make it easier to target advertising at specialist audiences . |
| 18 | The business men came , we heard , the Chancellor listened , and he has incorporated in his proposals a large number of deregulatory measures , which will ease cash flow and make it easier to deal with the VAT man and the Inland Revenue . |
| 19 | Okay now I want you to make a list there for traditional of all the materials we put around there , so make that list there okay and make it easier to look at . |
| 20 | It should be noted , however , that if one million of the three million were back at work and not receiving unemployment and/or supplementary benefits from the Exchequer , it would put less strain on the public purse and make it easier to meet the social security benefits for the expected one million over-85-year-olds . |
| 21 | Metaphors of grasping call attention to the active process of thinking rather than to static and distinct thoughts , and make it easier to understand that we interpret and organize rather than passively reflect . |
| 22 | Opponents of the MTO claim it would institutionalise the primacy of free trade over environmental protection and make it easier to challenge high national standards on environmental protection as unfair barriers to trade . |
| 23 | They have bevelled edges to reduce on-site damage and make it easier to work with . |
| 24 | The reason for using cold water is that hot water will make the blood congeal and make it harder to get out of the needle and syringe . |
| 25 | It was also found to give excessive flange wear , and made it necessary to turn the wheels after 20,000 miles in service . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | With this system , we have substantially reduced the capital cost compared with other processes and made it easy to integrate into existing equipment . |
| 28 | There 's no going back from Grey 's capture — not until time has dulled the sting , at least , and made it possible to mention peace without being called a traitor by some city haberdasher in the commons . |
| 29 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 30 | While they were drinking tea , Joanna regaled them with her story of her stay in hospital and made it all seem a huge joke . |