Example sentences of "[was/were] make it [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 The Society of Practitioners of Insolvency 's technical director , Gerry Weiss , said that recent cases were making it easier for administrators to obtain and exchange information .
2 The guns firing from the direction of the River Orne were making it difficult for me to hear what Taff was now saying .
3 They were making it difficult for her to tear herself away .
4 His low chuckle and the touch of his finger tips drifting lightly over her curves were making it difficult for her to concentrate .
5 Later technical changes in transport were to make it possible for the city to change its nature by spreading out great suburban dormitories , and electrification would help to decentralize industry .
6 She was making it worse for herself but could n't help it .
7 Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him .
8 The intention of the environmentalists who had campaigned for the referendums was to make it necessary for parliament to pass new legislation , since this would give them the opportunity to press their demands for much stricter controls .
9 To counter both the Gaullist and the communist threats , they passed a new electoral law , whose aim was to make it harder for the RPF or the PCF to win a majority .
10 The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) .
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