Example sentences of "make [pers pn] easier " in BNC.

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1 The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries .
2 A coastguard spokesman said the other two ‘ undoubtedly survived because they were wearing lifejackets , which also made them easier to spot in the water . ’
3 They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call
4 By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing .
5 Apart from the cosmetic effect , this would make them easier to maintain .
6 you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem .
7 Now these are n't , oh right , the strange black things that some of you are holding in your hands are called riders , and these are end leaves for the storage binder , and the idea is that they will have protective pages that are in the storage binder that will make them easier to turn .
8 The pans on these barrows tend to be bigger so you can carry more , and additional features like pneumatic tyres , front bracing and a tilt bar make them easier to manoeuvre when loaded .
9 Before she returned to her college her father said to her : ‘ Well , I don ‘ t know what to make of your religion — but I will say this , it 's made you easier to live with . ’
10 This was partly because the increasing integration of world capital markets has made it easier to finance current-account deficits .
11 It would have made it easier to help you , and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated .
12 I think you have something definite to say — and I hope I have made it easier for you to say it . ’
13 It is now fairly certain that the Australia antigen represents part of the virus responsible for type B hepatitis and its discovery has made it easier to determine the modes of transmission and the presence of a ‘ carrier ’ state , in which the infected person may suffer no ill health from his disease but is still capable of passing it on to others .
14 On this side of the Channel , in contrast , religion still maintains its place in schools , however uneasily ; and this itself has made it easier to assume that somehow or other there will be moral teaching as well .
15 It has made it easier for participants in training courses to understand the concept of oppression , to recognize oppressive attitudes and behaviour , and to identify oppressions which may be new to them : heterosexism is often a new concept to heterosexuals .
16 Third , trade-union reforms have made it easier for firms to fire people .
17 But in the short run the part-timers and weaker unions have made it easier for firms to shed labour .
18 But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly .
19 The Australian government has made it easier to take action against the discrimination and demeaning of women by the country 's media .
20 And he points out , being private has made it easier to invest without worrying about the effect of reduced profits on the city .
21 If they had been invited it might have made it easier , since it would have allowed him to slip away unnoticed .
22 The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago .
23 This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers .
24 One important theme in the remainder of this chapter is the extent to which a modular course design has made it easier or harder to seize opportunities and work within constraints .
25 The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines .
26 Recent changes in legislation have made it easier for local authorities to promote traffic calming schemes and a significant programme for their provision has been approved by the Regional Council .
27 Since 1975 a number of sector-specific EC Directives have made it easier for professionals to practice elsewhere in the Community .
28 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 .
29 A PSDR should have made it easier to restrain the growth of the money supply .
30 Your tentative benefit was not perhaps as clear as it might have been which would have made it easier to lead into my willingness to proceed .
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