Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Building Societies Commission has always considered it desirable to develop disclosure requirements for building societies roughly in parallel with those for the rest of the banking sector . |
| 2 | And in particular , she did not like at all that he had felt it necessary to give Lubor the instructions he had about her . |
| 3 | He wondered why he had felt it important to speak Harry 's name . |
| 4 | Now it 's made it all go quiet has n't it |
| 5 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 6 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 7 | It was the view of Engels ( 1884 ) that these inheritance arrangements provided the foundation of the development of capitalism in Britain in the nineteenth century , since they had made it possible to retain property and wealth — and with them all other forms of social privilege and power — within the hands of a small number of families from one generation to the next . |
| 8 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 9 | True — but only recently has technology made it possible to destroy life faster than it can be replaced . |
| 10 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 11 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend will recognise that , in introducing the concept of premiums into income support , we have made it possible to concentrate help on those who most need it , and not least families with young children . |
| 13 | Changes in technology have made it possible to imagine means of communication that would have been unthinkable two hundred years ago : radio broadcasts , instant word-processing , telephone conversations , etc . |
| 14 | VenturCom 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support embedded X-Windows , reportedly a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed NFS on a diskless single-board computer via E-NFS . |
| 15 | VenturCom Inc 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support X-Windows , claimed to be a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed Network File System on a diskless single-board computer via the E-NFS facility . |
| 16 | This has made it expensive to use machinery in the mines of South Wales and many pits have been closed . |
| 17 | The Australian government has made it easier to take action against the discrimination and demeaning of women by the country 's media . |
| 18 | The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money . |
| 19 | The abolition of exchange controls has made it harder to track flows of cash in and out of the country . |
| 20 | Last year 's stockmarket crash has made it harder to issue equities . |
| 21 | In remembering that interview , however , Fabia also remembered that Ven had actually thought it necessary to warn Lubor against her asking personal questions about him . |
| 22 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 23 | It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model . |
| 24 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 25 | We have found it necessary to refuse traffic . ’ |
| 26 | Staff have also found it necessary to attend children 's hearings both before and after an assessment panel . |
| 27 | At school he had always found it easy to get women . |
| 28 | Yet the government has always found it safer to regulate companies than to tax consumers , and Mr Bush is especially averse to taxes . |
| 29 | In those circumstances I have always found it wise to abandon effort and leave the subconscious mind to sort things out while the conscious mind does something quite different . |
| 30 | I have found it important to allow pupils to find and develop their own methods of calculation , rather than require them to use standard methods . |