Example sentences of "[vb past] made it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved the tough life of thrill and fear and his excellent war record had made it easy for him when , in 1941 he had decided to apply to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 2 | This had made it easy for him to reach the traps as there were no banks here as such , just fiats of mud and rock . |
| 3 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 4 | In Vietnam the loss of a small intelligence network to the Japanese had made it essential for operational purposes that it should be replaced and it is at this point that Ho Chi Minh and the American OSS found each other . |
| 5 | On being appointed prime minister in March 1992 , he had made it one of his priorities to ‘ lance the abscess of corruption ’ . |
| 6 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |
| 7 | In Alexandria armies of monks sacked the Serapeum , the great temple to Osiris , and destroyed the library which had made it one of the world 's chief centres of learning . |
| 8 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 9 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 10 | In 1976 , earlier changes in the nominating process had made it possible for an outsider to seize the Democratic nomination , but in office , Carter 's lack of ‘ relevant experience ’ and ‘ aptitude ’ had proven to be a serious liability . |
| 11 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
| 12 | Clarke told the House of Commons that " political change " — understood to mean the less active role of agents from eastern Europe — had made it possible for MI5 to devote more resources to countering IRA activities . |
| 13 | English pragmatism had made it possible for many educational administrators to use an intelligence test in addition to examinations of attainment , as a refinement of their selection process . |
| 14 | But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith . |
| 15 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 16 | Whose age had made it sacred to the view , |
| 17 | As had happened previously , the fines were paid anonymously but the magistrates had made it impossible for an outsider to defuse the situation on this occasion by also binding them over to keep the peace . |
| 18 | When Edmund Wilson attended a performance of The Confidential Clerk , however , he found it " rudimentary " ; everyone in London seemed to agree with him but , he said , " respect for Eliot had made it impossible for anyone to commit himself by printing a sincere opinion " . |
| 19 | The sight of his motorcycle first thing that morning had made it necessary for his Mother to speak sharply to him about his language . |
| 20 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 21 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 22 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 23 | Which had made it difficult for her to stifle her irreverent giggles , particularly with Matey 's severe stare on her . |
| 24 | Mr Hyslop said he had made it clear during the 1987 campaign that any political party was free to advertise . |
| 25 | He had made it clear at Beechwood that he believed the paper had to be pop , pop , pop if it was going to sell a million . |
| 26 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 27 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 28 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 29 | Now that Hilary was three years old , Stephen had made it clear to his own mother that the necessity for her to remain at the Manor was past . |
| 30 | The accountants had made it clear to the Committee that they did not accept the findings of the DTI reports ( which formed the basis for the inquiry ) , and that documents they would need to deal further with the matter were no longer available . |