Example sentences of "make it harder " in BNC.

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1 Last year 's stockmarket crash has made it harder to issue equities .
2 The garage had a dirt floor , but decades of oil and grease , plus vehicles and feet , had made it harder than concrete .
3 More recently , increased air traffic , tightened procedures , and stricter operating limits have made it harder to achieve .
4 YOUR MONEY IN EUROPEAN BONDS Currency uncertainties have made it harder to invest in European bonds
5 Reid , preparing for today 's confrontation at Ewood Park , declared : ‘ Blackburn have made it harder for the rest of us but there is no point in bleating about it .
6 Not unnaturally , however , this glowing relationship between Mr Balladur and the president has made it harder for Mr Balladur to stay on loving terms with his former boss , Mr Chirac .
7 That is to say no French government and probably no French political party at this time was willing to concede the principle of secession ; and the permanent loss of Indochina would obviously have made it harder to hold on to French North Africa and even to Black Africa .
8 Whether Britain had made it harder to win the war — of influencing Europe 's future — was an open question , he added .
9 The abolition of exchange controls has made it harder to track flows of cash in and out of the country .
10 But statements are unlikely to prevent a heightening of suspicions which are always fairly strong even at the best of times , and that could make it harder for the North to get the global climate convention it is seeking .
11 This , in turn , will make it harder for diggers to profit from the crude — and illegal — looting of ancient sites .
12 This would make it harder for me to make changes ; and it would have implications for the responsibilities of Departmental Ministers since Select Committees would try to summon the Chairman of Cabinet Committees to give evidence in addition to the responsible Minister .
13 In some ways it can make it harder .
14 Both the City and the CBI are still unhappy with the clauses in spite of some changes from the original draft , as they feel the legislation will make it harder for companies to communicate with analysts , fund managers and other City representatives .
15 A few glasses of wine also seem to justify a splurge on the main dishes , and may make it harder to say no when the orders for dessert come round .
16 The reason for using cold water is that hot water will make the blood congeal and make it harder to get out of the needle and syringe .
17 You can reinforce the message by holding the leash close to the ground which will make it harder for the dog to stand up if it persistently tries to do so .
18 ‘ Having to push 10 metres instead of five would make it harder , but it would not necessarily eliminate the problem .
19 Moody 's has already said it believes that an independent French central bank and more bank privatisations will make it harder to predict how helpful the French state will be to troubled banks .
20 It would make it harder to develop new weapons , but not impossible .
21 Do n't make it harder for them , Anne . ’
22 Please do n't make it harder . ’
23 Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash .
24 EGYPT has imposed travel restrictions which will make it harder for Islamic militants to cross the border with Libya .
25 But I think Johnson does make it harder for us .
26 And did that make it harder for you to do physics ?
27 He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources .
28 More majority voting in the Council of Ministers made it harder for members to block laws ; that strengthened the hand of the commission , which has the sole right to propose laws .
29 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 .
30 It was an unfair advantage , though ; it made it harder for him to evade answering .
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