Example sentences of "[noun pl] makes it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 2 | Lord Lane did , however , express concern on behalf of the court that to some people , ‘ putting into the dock together defendants who [ had ] been arrested on different occasions or at different places makes it difficult to avoid the appearance of ‘ group justice ’ . |
| 3 | Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings . |
| 4 | However they caution that the relatively small numbers of students in both studies makes it difficult to draw any firm generalisable conclusions . |
| 5 | The use of complex lexical structures makes it possible to use simpler grammars . |
| 6 | Having fewer suppliers makes it easier to move towards just-in-time delivery of components . |
| 7 | The simultaneous administration of two treatments makes it difficult to differentiate which induced the response . |
| 8 | But psychoanalysis 's limited address to social relations makes it unable to deal with all the questions western feminists raise about gender and subjectivity . |
| 9 | Using a recognition test to measure memory for the stimuli makes it possible to assess any general biases in responding separately from subjects ’ actual ability to correctly recognize individual stimuli . |
| 10 | The gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks makes it possible to pull the legs back , push the hips forward and stand up straight . |
| 11 | The shape of the jaws makes it difficult to swallow mammals and there are no records of man-eating . |
| 12 | The resurgence of interest in cognitive processes makes it impossible to hold such a simple view any longer and nowadays most psychologists recognize that there are psychological processes , like verbal communication and the symbolic representation of future events , that can only reliably be demonstrated in other people . |
| 13 | The ever broadening range of involvement by government departments makes it difficult to trace the evolution of policy through Whitehall or to interpret decision making in development planning , and researchers are presented with a bewildering complexity of sources which hinders efficient and economic research . |
| 14 | It is undoubtedly true that Hansard and particularly records of Committee debates are not widely held by libraries outside London and that the lack of satisfactory indexing of Committee stages makes it difficult to trace the passage of a clause after it is redrafted or renumbered . |
| 15 | However the limited numbers of Access students who had completed higher education courses makes it difficult to draw any strong generalisable conclusions . |
| 16 | This symbolic , familial structure of affiliation between firms of very different sizes makes it difficult to identify the exact extent of independent control especially where subcontractors supply the bulk of their output to one buyer . |
| 17 | The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy . |
| 18 | ( The assumption that large ( absolute ) shocks are less likely than small ones makes it irrational to infer from an unexpectedly high price that there has been a negative shock to , say , aggregate demand outweighed by a large positive shock to relative demand . ) |
| 19 | A large number of sections makes it easier to locate paperwork only if it is correctly filed . |
| 20 | Another reason cited is more plausible : the contribution the business makes to corporate overheads and the way it is entwined with the company 's other operations makes it difficult to detach from more profitable bits of the company . |
| 21 | Indeed , the primacy of this anti-exploitation rationale over eugenic reasons makes it desirable to extend the offence to cover adopted children as well as blood-relationships . |
| 22 | Measurement of all pulse arrival times makes it possible to calculate the change in pulse delay due to the change in the distance of PSR 1913 + 16 from Earth . |
| 23 | Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 24 | ‘ Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 25 | This is the case of the Scandinavian countries — I am thinking of Finland and Iceland in particular — though the prevailing liberal ideology in those parts makes it embarrassing to admit to this form of intolerance . |