Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a style which many of the country 's administrators were familiar with , from their visits to France , and its classical origins made it acceptable to the cultured amateur . |
| 32 | ( e ) for any other reason the Council thinks it proper in the public interest not to recognise the body . |
| 33 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 34 | Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields . |
| 35 | Maggie asked breathlessly , sitting wide-eyed and making no move to stop him when his hands went to her hair and pulled it free of the restraining band . |
| 36 | She eased it free from the restraining material , and as she did so she felt his body tense and a shot rang out . |
| 37 | I have made it clear to the right hon. Gentleman and to the House that we believe that the Union between the United Kingdom and Scotland is important . |
| 38 | It was well known that Sir Dennis Rooke made it clear to the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) that the privatisation of gas should be on his terms , and those were the terms on which gas was privatised . |
| 39 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House , however , that , before large amounts of financial aid are made available , he will make it clear to the Russian people and Government that it is not Governments but people who create wealth ? |
| 40 | A formal party vote might not be necessary to remove him : senior members of his party might make it clear to the Prime Minister that he no longer had the confidence of the parliamentary party ( as , in a sense , happened with Churchill in 1955 ) , or the lack of support might become clear as the result of a Commons vote ( as in 1940 , when Chamberlain obtained a drastically-reduced majority in a vote of confidence ) . |
| 41 | Will he now seek the urgent help of the President of the United States in making it clear to the new Government in Turkey that the west expects a positive and constructive contribution to the United Nations peace process from now on ? |
| 42 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 43 | When it opened in 1931 , erected on 22,000 concrete piles to lift it clear of the water-sodden ground , it already sported its own blast furnace , foundry , jetty and power station . |
| 44 | Mr Hyslop said he had made it clear during the 1987 campaign that any political party was free to advertise . |
| 45 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 46 | Mr Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd will make it clear in the coming days that British forces must have protection — or they will be pulled back to safe areas . |
| 47 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
| 48 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 49 | Nor was it clear from the 1538 injunctions whether the offending images should simply be removed or totally destroyed . |
| 50 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 51 | claims that Holiday Inns ' commitment to TQM , introduced to the group in 1989 , made it easier for the 14 Scotts ' Hospitality properties to switch their franchise to Marriott Hotels , who are long-standing TQM enthusiasts . |
| 52 | While this makes it easier for the acoustic-phonetic component to guarantee the inclusion of the target phoneme , the task of the syntax/semantic component is made considerably more difficult since it has to choose from many more word candidates . |
| 53 | What can we do to make it easier for the potential visitor ? |
| 54 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 55 | Hodson favours the Master because of its high roof and low loading height , which makes it easier for the infirm . |
| 56 | Fortunately for the defenders of the American alliance the Chinese rejected proposals for a cease-fire , thus making it easier for the British government to support the UN 's condemnation of Chinese aggression on 1 February 1951 . |
| 57 | The first Labour government singularly failed to do anything about the level of unemployment , although it made it easier for the unemployed to obtain unemployment relief and extended benefit . |
| 58 | And it makes it easier for the slash-and-burn cultivators to get in rather than sort of coming in gradually round the edges , there are now great swathes cut through tropical rainforest at Amazonia certainly , and the Trans-Scabon railway is about to be put through which again will make it easier for the sort of to come in , and I think that should be bourn in mind . |
| 59 | ‘ I 'm making it easier for the next black man . |
| 60 | The Scheme is funded for eighteen months only and this means that the numbers will start to drop in October 1993 and that is the only good thing about this Scheme , because it 'll make it easier for the next Labour Government to abolish it . |