Example sentences of "made it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In use , we liked the larger , rubber-padded vice pegs of the 750 , compared to the 536 , and the larger variety of possible positions , which made it easy to grip straight-sided , tapered or oddly-shaped items on the surface of the bench .
2 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 .
3 His own opening gambit made it impossible to take offence .
4 ( If so , I thought that was just the problem that made it impossible to use Rocky … )
5 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 .
6 They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development .
7 Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped .
8 The increasing impact of nuclear weapons upon military planning and the perceived importance of maintaining the integrity of a future theatre of operations made it necessary to standardise doctrine and training and , hence , provide a more integrated forum for addressing joint military requirements .
9 The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets .
10 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 ) .
11 There 's no going back from Grey 's capture — not until time has dulled the sting , at least , and made it possible to mention peace without being called a traitor by some city haberdasher in the commons .
12 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 .
13 The notion of putting down the hardcore floor of the hangar using NAM volunteers and not the contractor made it possible to slice £10,000 off the cost of the project .
14 Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this .
15 This made it possible to rethink multiculturalism 's psychological interpretation of racism as individual prejudice in more structural and politicized terms .
16 Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity .
20 This followed the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , which made it easier to move funds between financial centres in different countries .
21 The Wahl model , the most powerful , is cordless and Helen found the flexible head made it easier to reach shoulder and back muscles .
22 The Federal Election Campaign Act , its amendments of 1976 , and the Buckley-Valeo ruling of the supreme court , also in 1976 , made it easier to establish PACs .
23 However , Swallow was not optimistic regarding the prospects for the latter , arguing that administrative confusion on the border with the Czech Republic now made it easier to ship kit to Slovakia from a third country .
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 .
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