Example sentences of "which [verb] it [adj -er] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 2 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 3 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 4 | It has then made two points : ( 1 ) that other people manage curricula within centralised systems , which is encouraging ; but ( 2 ) that other people have cultural backgrounds which make it easier for them to manage curricula within centralised systems , which is discouraging . |
| 5 | Special paving slabs , which make it easier for blind and partially-sighted pedestrians to distinguish the crossing have been introduced . |
| 6 | which make it easier for you to stop and a lot of people do n't have the choice to stop , if you look at it in that sense . |
| 7 | This is due to the seasonal nature of so much agricultural work , which makes it cheaper for the company to employ labourers during the planting or harvesting rather than maintain a labour force throughout the year . |
| 8 | Hodson favours the Master because of its high roof and low loading height , which makes it easier for the infirm . |
| 9 | We have improved matters by cutting up the fallen leaves with a rotary grass-cutting machine which makes it easier for raking and collection for the compost heaps ; the chopped leaves also rot down that much quicker . |
| 10 | This back scratching may include taking data directly from the banks computer , but more often it provides details of the bank 's systems , which makes it easier for the enquiry agent to embark on the well timed impersonation . |
| 11 | They have discovered that in the period when most deaths occur between two and four months 80–90pc of babies produce a sticky substance in their saliva which makes it easier for bacteria to stick to the nose and throat . |
| 12 | They have discovered that in the period during which most cot deaths occur between two and four months 80 to 90pc of babies produce saliva , which makes it easier for bacteria to stick to the nose and throat . |