Example sentences of "have made it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed their background as Greek intellectuals would have made it nonsensical to them to have said of a particular item in our world ( a particular human being ) that he was ‘ God ’ . |
| 2 | That would have made it 45 for 5 . |
| 3 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 4 | The low level of the aircraft on entering the Harbour and its speed , would have made it impossible for heavy anti-aircraft guns to depress and traverse to follow the aircraft and even difficult for 30mm cannon such as Bofors , even when the aircraft climbed to sixty feet to drop its torpedo . |
| 5 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 6 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 7 | So we began to ponder on the circumstances which might have made it necessary for such a tiny place to be defended . |
| 8 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 9 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 10 | The emotional problems contained in ‘ customs , ceremonies and dogmas left behind by the original relation to the father may have made it possible for later generations to take over their heritage of emotion ’ . |
| 11 | However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other . |
| 12 | All it meant was I could attack the trial in the job , which would have made it better for me , or from outside the job . ’ |
| 13 | This should have made it irrelevant to the case before him . |
| 14 | The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has . |
| 15 | We should have made it clear to the Media Action team not to refer callers to named staff . |
| 16 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |