Example sentences of "made it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rise in equity prices during the 1980s , made it relatively easy to float new issues , and this gave an impetus to equity financing . |
| 10 | The softness of gold made it relatively easy to employ for ornamental purposes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 13 | Coatings used to have separate plants in each country , because local tariffs and duties made it too costly to import . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The clash between Government and teaching unions certainly made it more difficult to extend the teacher 's role . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 18 | It also made it more difficult to obtain maintenance — and this emphasised the stigma of bastardy . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In particular the fact that so many officials had bought their offices and thus made them their personal property ( see p. 126 ) made it very hard to dismiss them , since the government could seldom afford to refund the purchase price . |
| 24 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 25 | In contrast to the other states though , Germany was still a series of small states and principalities , and this made it very difficult to finance and develop the railway network . |
| 26 | In the towns , rapid urban growth ( table 2.1 ) made it very difficult to build houses fast enough . |
| 27 | I suppose my first experience is one of immense frustration , because I think this is very important document that you bring to us , but the speed and the sound being , the loud sound of delivery made it very difficult to stay with the , the concept and ideas . |
| 28 | Conferences used to be a British strength , but this one was sponsored by Honda — the company that made it socially acceptable to ride a motorcycle without donning ‘ leathers ’ . |
| 29 | But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever . |
| 30 | His new status made it much easier to raise money for expeditions and so satisfy his quest for adventure . |