Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] [noun] [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 | Mr Liljeros has maintained that too much time has passed to make it possible for Mrs Palme to point out her husband 's murderer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Second , failure of supporters of other parties to transfer votes on elimination caused these to be non-transferable and made it possible for VUPP candidates to be elected " without reaching the quota " in the last stage of a count . |
| 8 | When the basic style is agreed , the computer draws a two-dimensional pattern of it complete with stress points marked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had once been a prisoner in Parfois himself , he knew the castle and the country round it , and owed his escape from it alive to Master Harry and none other . |
| 11 | The factory had lost £10m in five years and Timex despaired of making it profitable by world standards . |
| 12 | If you 're lucky you 'll strike it rich like Gary Glitter ( Are you sure ? — Ed ) . |
| 13 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 14 | That was unthinkable to the British generals , even though Napoleon III made it clear to Lord Palmerston that he did not intend to usurp the command and so the problem would not arise . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | HEARTBEAT , ITV , 8.00pm : Sergeant Blaketon ( Derek Fowlds ) makes it clear to PC Nick Owen ( Nick Berry ) that he wants a local burglar caught before the Assistant Chief Constable makes his scheduled visit . |
| 17 | France made it clear to New Zealand that it would allow more imports of lamb and dairy products into France if New Zealand reduced the charge against the couple to manslaughter and then deported them . |
| 18 | But the dispute also made it clear to President Chamorro that the Nicaraguan left is still a force to be reckoned with . |
| 19 | The Arab states have made it clear to Mr Christopher that the mass deportation remains a problem . |
| 20 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
| 21 | Black brings it clear for Nottingham Forest . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal made it clear in Janata Bank v Ahmed ( 1981 ) that this is certainly a possibility . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He wants to make it easier for Government Departments to carry out projects using private investors and the commercial banks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The EEA Agreement will make it easier for UK nationals to live and work in the EFTA countries . |
| 28 | To offset criticism , Novell is promising to deliver a new NetWare NFS gateway this month , which it says will make it easier for NetWare clients to access Network File System services on remote Unix systems . |
| 29 | To offset criticism , Novell is promising to deliver a new NetWare NFS gateway this month , which it says will make it easier for NetWare clients to access Network File System services on remote Unix systems . |
| 30 | 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 . |