Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge deemed it unconstitutionally restrictive to require that a person evaluate art by taking into consideration ‘ general standards of decency ’ . |
| 2 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 3 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 4 | who are closing their Newark operation you see , which has made it rather tricky to approach them . |
| 5 | For nearly two centuries a political framework had existed which had made it increasingly easy to tap Europe 's resources and savings . |
| 6 | These pay levels have resulted in low morale within the Service and have made it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff . |
| 7 | The note to the accounts on assets held for sale explains that the marked and continuing downturn in the property market since 1990 , as reflected in the latest valuation reports , has made it increasingly difficult to forecast the dates on which Burton will have completed the letting and sale of its development properties . |
| 8 | Its corollary is that precisely because of their prior example , they have made it increasingly difficult to write intelligently on popular culture . |
| 9 | Certainly the growth of ‘ total war ’ in the twentieth century has drawn populations into the war effort in ways that have made it increasingly difficult to maintain the principle of protection of the civilian population . |
| 10 | Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity . |
| 11 | But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times . |
| 12 | After all — had n't one of the things that had made it so difficult to get over Tony been the fact that he 'd got off scot-free ? |
| 13 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 14 | Recent concessions on recording television programmes have made it much easier to use this type of material in education . |
| 15 | The gyro has made it much easier to learn to fly but , once you overcome the basic hurdle , it merely serves to smooth things out and make your flying tidier . |
| 16 | The fragmentation of politics has made it extraordinarily difficult to bring a coordinated attack on overall questions about the system . |
| 17 | The fact that alcohol can be bought in every supermarket has made it far easier to come by , especially for housewives and young people . |
| 18 | Erm er and it 's the way that we do it that 's made it made it very comfortable to go into something , like most of the people that come to see us and work with us , they 've never sold never been involved in advertising let alone sold it because erm |
| 19 | The timing of these parties , and their occasionally unfortunate results have made it very unpopular to hold them immediately before the wedding . |
| 20 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |
| 21 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 22 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 23 | Reports suggested that Rathore had found it increasingly difficult to co-operate with the AJK President , Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan of the Moslem Conference , a party closely allied to the Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) -dominated government of Pakistan [ see p. 37653 ] . |
| 24 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 25 | For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment . |
| 26 | At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable . |
| 27 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've found it increasingly difficult to attract youngsters into the game because of the success of , and publicity for , rugby league here , ’ Des Seabrook , coach of Orrell and Lancashire , said . |
| 29 | Over a period of 18 months , Cox had found it increasingly difficult to front the cost of her supplies . |
| 30 | In these experiments subjects have invariably found it most difficult to remain awake in the hours between midnight and noon , with a revival every afternoon . |