Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Make it possible for the other person to change what they do . |
2 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
3 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
4 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
5 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
6 | Is it possible for the ordinary man in the street to become confident and competent in handling a computer system , whether it be in his office or in his home ? |
7 | Is it possible for the net return to capital to rise ? |
8 | Derek Malcolm might have a point when he says that our idea of ‘ glamour ’ has also changed — making it possible for the 90s woman in the street to look glamorous , too . |
9 | Self-help schemes relieve the state of the immediate necessity of providing housing and offer a cheap source of shelter , thus making it possible for the poor to survive on very low incomes ( Burgess 1978 ) . |
10 | A similar view of the importance of social movements is taken by Touraine ( 1973 ) in his account of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende in Chile where , he argues , the activities and influence of a variety of movements within the governing coalition made it possible for the poor to express their grievances directly and continuously , instead of having them diverted ( and perhaps stifled ) in the official channels of a monolithic ruling party . |
11 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
12 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
13 | This meeting strongly condemns the regulations of the Food Controller , which favour the rich who are not in danger of being without food , make it possible for the wealthy to provide unscrupulous profiteers to defraud the nation by government sanction i.e. the fixing of prices for potatoes and other edibles , and therefore calls for Lord Devonport 's removal from office . |
14 | How was it possible in the late 1980s to put Trident into a bargaining regime , when we will not possess it until late 1994 ? |
15 | Only if productivity increases is it possible in the long-run for both groups to be successful . |
16 | Nor is it usual for the foreign press to first travel and then write the story . |
17 | It caused us a lot of extra work , major changes and more travel to get it right for the second larger meeting . |
18 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
19 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
20 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
21 | They kept it intact to the last but both of them knew , without any discussion , that to keep themselves afloat they 'd jump on any passing raft . |
22 | I thought it plucky of the Labour party to sing Jerusalem at one of Mr Kinnock 's beanos last week . |
23 | Then on the second day , Nicklaus puts it stone-dead at the 5th and so he 's taken just three shots for the 5th ! |
24 | His first Prayer Book was influenced by Luther ; his second more by Zwingli , in an attempt to make it acceptable to the Continental churches and enable a Reformed General Council to bring the whole of Christendom into a new and scriptural unity . |
25 | It was a style which many of the country 's administrators were familiar with , from their visits to France , and its classical origins made it acceptable to the cultured amateur . |
26 | ( e ) for any other reason the Council thinks it proper in the public interest not to recognise the body . |
27 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
28 | Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields . |
29 | Maggie asked breathlessly , sitting wide-eyed and making no move to stop him when his hands went to her hair and pulled it free of the restraining band . |
30 | She eased it free from the restraining material , and as she did so she felt his body tense and a shot rang out . |