Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot , behind the green baize door . |
| 2 | They proved much easier to collect than direct taxes and made it possible for government revenue to keep pace with the swift rise in production . |
| 3 | Following upon the Cleveland Report which was concerned with civil proceedings the Criminal Justice Act 1991 has now made it possible for video recordings of interviews with children to be used as evidence in criminal proceedings . |
| 4 | Employees at Echo Logic Inc , the AT&T-owned start-up , which is making it possible for Apple Computer Inc to run Mac programs on PowerPCs ( UX No 385 ) , are reportedly negotiating with Mama to get a 20+% chunk of the company as sweat equity . |
| 5 | Valuable , in that , by providing a conception of an autonomous , rational and apparently neutral subject , it made it possible for Enlightenment liberalism ( in particular Mary Wollstonecraft ) to question the exclusion of women from public life . |
| 6 | When the basic style is agreed , the computer draws a two-dimensional pattern of it complete with stress points marked . |
| 7 | The unravelling of their chemistry has been one of the great achievements of 20th century science , a large part of it due to sir Norman Haworth , whose studies in this field spanned more than 30 years . |
| 8 | The factory had lost £10m in five years and Timex despaired of making it profitable by world standards . |
| 9 | I understand that this particular problem may be dealt with in the near future , and it is quite obvious that the Rules need urgently to be reconsidered in order to make it clear to circuit judges and to magistrates , who have the problem of dealing with these snatches , that they can deal with it in an appropriate way which is in the interests of the child concerned . |
| 10 | Late yesterday , the two companies were due to announce Windows Telephony , which aims to make it easier for software applications that can link to a wide range of telephone equipment , from PABXes to cellular telephone exchanges . |
| 11 | He wants to make it easier for Government Departments to carry out projects using private investors and the commercial banks . |
| 12 | SCOTVEC 's audit criteria , by building on existing good practice in centres , will make it easier for centre personnel to find their way through the maze . |
| 13 | A single object-oriented class library for user interface code will make it easier for tool builders to move between the CUA91 Common User Access standard of another collapsed IBM initiative , Systems Application Architecture , and Motif in AIX CASE . |
| 14 | One of the first things that the Labour party would do would be to change the law to make it easier for trade unions to strike . |
| 15 | This particular example ( C ) may conceivably make it easier for community activists to occupy positions of influence within existing power structures without being accused of ‘ selling out ’ . |
| 16 | These will in most cases make it easier for tax exiles to acquire a foreign domicile . |
| 17 | The speed at which this bus can pass data ( typically 10MHz ) is restricted to make it easier for card designers to achieve compatibility . |
| 18 | Subsequently the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act brought almost all development under control by making it subject to planning permission . |
| 19 | Frequent legislative changes make it dangerous for advice workers to assume that any facts are unaltered and they must therefore always be encouraged to look things up afresh . |
| 20 | Both ordinary and thermal plasterboard are also available with a backing film which makes it resistant to water vapour . |
| 21 | One of the congressional critics , Representative Henry Waxman from California , however , said that the lack of thorough testing made it impossible to gauge water quality accurately . |
| 22 | The weight of the transporter with five new Rovers on top made it impossible for emergency services to lift off . |
| 23 | The island of Rhodes boasts 300 days of sunshine each year , making it ideal for sun worshippers . |
| 24 | The holes in the foam allow air to circulate and the dust-free properties of the material make it ideal for allergy sufferers |
| 25 | The brush has been developed for easel painters ; each one has a long , silver-grey handle which makes it ideal for easel painting when you need distance from the canvas . |
| 26 | Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths , as provided by most hotel chains . |
| 27 | In addition to the fact that multiple complexes with defined stoichiometries can be mapped simultaneously , this in gel procedure circumvents the limitations imposed by the aforementioned factors , whereas its inherent advantages renders it ideal for methylation protection analysis of non-abundant and/or kinetically labile complexes . |
| 28 | You need to be very familiar with the text , you ca n't learn it word-for-word for goodness sake , but you certainly are able to identify all the key issues and key aspects of it and that 's what you 're looking out for , so you could re-tell the story again , you can re-tell the story again yourself accurately , identifying all the key points . |
| 29 | I did n't like the colour on it , though , so I sprayed it gold with car spray . |
| 30 | I mean obviously I 'd like to sell it all at price levels but there 's get away with that . |