Example sentences of "was make it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was making it worse for herself but could n't help it . |
| 2 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 3 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 4 | ft was then necessary to review the work carried out so far , which , due to the extensive coding exercise and sheer size of the database , was making it difficult to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 5 | The intention of the environmentalists who had campaigned for the referendums was to make it necessary for parliament to pass new legislation , since this would give them the opportunity to press their demands for much stricter controls . |
| 6 | One of the problems facing physicists who sought to apply general relativity to these newly discovered or hypothetical objects was to make it compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 7 | To counter both the Gaullist and the communist threats , they passed a new electoral law , whose aim was to make it harder for the RPF or the PCF to win a majority . |
| 8 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |