Example sentences of "made [pron] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 2 | He clearly saw that the extended nature of Rommel 's supply lines made them extremely vulnerable to attack and that destruction of port facilities would severely limit his ability to wage war . |
| 3 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |
| 6 | Jacqui was likely to stay in most of the time with her portable television ; her pregnancy made her quite content to do so . |
| 7 | Every dead comrade made her more determined to finish her mission . |
| 8 | That made him both easier to think about ( for were there not rules about Captors ? |
| 9 | John George had long ceased to play the father to John : not only did he put his son first at all times , but his alcoholism made him extremely difficult to deal with . |
| 10 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 11 | The result is a sympathetic and charmingly balanced profile of this charismatic driver whose uninhibited spirit at the wheel made him so compelling to watch . |
| 12 | They stayed mainly in the front room where there were rugs on a black-flagged floor that made it wonderfully cool to come into from the burning heat of the headland . |
| 13 | However , the real triumph was the fact that the user interface was matched to the traditional ways of working — which made it both easy to learn and rapidly accepted ( though much criticised for its lack of typographic accuracy ) by the publishing industry . |
| 14 | He had told them a year ago that one of the main reasons he was interested in the paper was his conviction that the ‘ new realism ’ of print unions made it financially possible to seize the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 15 | The Nazi threat to socialism and the working-class movement — whether in Germany , the Soviet Union , or the Western democracies — made it increasingly difficult to maintain an attitude of equal hostility to all imperialist powers . |
| 16 | The inflexional system of Latin , however , made it freely possible to subvert these norms , for rhetorical effect , to topicalise or focus , or to create the metre-governed structures of poetry . |
| 17 | At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work . |
| 18 | The ‘ network structure ’ of control , authority and communications provided a greater commitment on the part of the workforce and made it better able to respond to change . |
| 19 | The success of the tour made it less difficult to tell herself that this was what she wanted , but it did n't stop those sudden down-swings when she was swept by a longing so total that it was like a haemorrhage of the soul . |
| 20 | The rise in equity prices during the 1980s , made it relatively easy to float new issues , and this gave an impetus to equity financing . |
| 21 | The softness of gold made it relatively easy to employ for ornamental purposes . |
| 22 | The restructure of the coal , aggregates , Speedlink , petroleum and metals businesses made it relatively easy to identify and organise separate sub-sector fleets , increasingly recognised by the new grey livery decorated with esoteric fleet symbols and depot badges . |
| 23 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 24 | Coatings used to have separate plants in each country , because local tariffs and duties made it too costly to import . |
| 25 | The Abortion Act of 1967 changed that pattern and made it more useful to consider all the known conceptions outside marriage to observe their changing fate ( figure 4.12 ) . |
| 26 | The clash between Government and teaching unions certainly made it more difficult to extend the teacher 's role . |
| 27 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 28 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 29 | It also made it more difficult to obtain maintenance — and this emphasised the stigma of bastardy . |
| 30 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |