Example sentences of "make it [adj] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 3 | The abolition of exchange controls has made it harder to track flows of cash in and out of the country . |
| 4 | Last year 's stockmarket crash has made it harder to issue equities . |
| 5 | We have seen that it is sometimes possible to sort out the observed vibrational bands according to their symmetry , and that group frequency and similar empirical arguments may make it reasonable to associate bands with particular vibrational modes . |
| 6 | In short , it was thought by many that the nature of the children 's hearing system would make it unnecessary to enact rules for ‘ wiping the slate clean ’ . |
| 7 | They would make it impossible to fund clubs and societies and would inevitably suppress much of our vital welfare work . |
| 8 | ESRC support will make it possible to test theories systematically and rigorously to answer such questions as : To what extent do differences in national cultures and tradition in Central and Eastern Europe cause different responses in post-Communist societies ? |
| 9 | Observations of behaviour based on objective measurement will make it possible to produce statements of cause and effect . |
| 10 | This will make it possible to suggest ways in which the massive foreign aid efforts currently under way to prevent very serious and increasing food and fuel deficiencies be made more effective . |
| 11 | On the positive side , I would argue that these devices may make it easier to withstand setbacks , to hold on to a belief in ultimate victory when times are hard , because they all underline the continuities of racial oppression . |
| 12 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 13 | It can make it easier to place pupils for Work Experience , to find partners from industry for curriculum development or advisers for Mini-Enterprise . |
| 14 | Likewise , changes in law may make it difficult to compare figures through time even within one country , e.g. introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 makes it very hard to relate road accident figures before and after this date . |
| 15 | Anjuu Misra , actress , explains that the schedule can make it difficult to learn lines . |
| 16 | President Alija Izetbegovic told reporters his meeting with mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was very short because of the ‘ bad news ’ from Bosnia which made it impossible to continue talks . |
| 17 | The crytic stage in the choroid plexus may also give the ‘ tryps ’ time to alter their surface antigens , and so escape destruction by the immune system ; the trick that has , to date , made it impossible to construct vaccines effective against them . |
| 18 | The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets . |
| 19 | In 1970 , the Equal Pay Act made it unlawful to pay women less than men for doing the same or similar work ( although this was not to be implemented until 1975 ) . |
| 20 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 21 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |
| 22 | Cheap newsprint ; new technology which made it possible to attract readers by printing illustrations relatively cheaply ; growing mass literacy , at least in western Europe ; mass newspaper readerships ; a resulting growth of mass public feeling , often emotional and volatile , on international questions : all these were now adding another element to the changing picture of relations between the European states . |
| 23 | This followed the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , which made it easier to move funds between financial centres in different countries . |
| 24 | This made it difficult to draw conclusions . |
| 25 | And this in turn made it difficult to maintain profits in the economy as a whole . |
| 26 | The rainwater washed away the topsoil and made it difficult to replant trees . |
| 27 | But this is overcome by the successive production series , which make it possible to incorporate improvements suggested by experience , once they have been fully thought out . |
| 28 | These arrangements with established publishers also make it possible to reach bookshops through direct sales representation . |
| 29 | Like others , BOC was seeking to create advantages from an international presence and make it possible to do things a purely local operator could not afford . |
| 30 | A baculovirus spray ( containing viruses specific to insects ) might , for instance , reduce a population sufficiently for predators to cope with the remainder , and so make it unnecessary to apply chemicals . |