Example sentences of "made it more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The clash between Government and teaching unions certainly made it more difficult to extend the teacher 's role . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 5 | It also made it more difficult to obtain maintenance — and this emphasised the stigma of bastardy . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | Every minute she was in the house where she had spent most of her life , crowded as it was with memories of her parents and her grandfather , made it more difficult to bear up . |
| 8 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 9 | It was a bizarre kind of inconsistency , and that made it more difficult to make the decision to join Fleetwood Mac , because we thought there might be something going on here . |