Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed . |
| 2 | Organisers said the display was amusing but warned that some people might consider it unsuitable for young children . |
| 3 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 4 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 5 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 6 | ‘ God 's green earth in all its fullness is for the people ’ he proclaimed , and set about making it possible with characteristic fervour . |
| 7 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 8 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 9 | It is expected that the process will make it possible for rare and fragile mummies and other bodies such as the European bog bodies and the recently discovered Ice Man to be accessible to the public without putting the originals at risk . |
| 10 | but the crucial factor which makes it possible for middle-class women to enter the labour force and , at the same time , maintain traditional values in the home , is the existence of the domestic servant . |
| 11 | By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables . |
| 12 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 13 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 14 | The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters . |
| 15 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | The new 3174 Models 14R , 24R , and 64R with Ethernet , and the Ethernet Adaptor for current 3174 controllers make it possible for attached dependent terminals — ASCIIs as well as 3270s — to access SNA and TCP/IP hosts via an Ethernet . |
| 17 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 18 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 19 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 20 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 21 | This may be because of a scarcity of suitable sites , but the great number of individuals present makes it possible for unmated young birds to help their parents in the labour of digging holes just as the young Florida scrub jays help their parents rear new broods . |
| 22 | The Government 's objective was to make the industry more efficient , to bring it into the latter part of the 20th century and to make it possible for British mines to produce competitively . |
| 23 | I offer as an example some of my own Inspector Ghote novels , particularly the early ones , since I have found it possible in recent years to shift , as it were , Ghote 's character into higher , more serious gear . |
| 24 | It 's a conventional dome tent with two poles running diagonally across its apex making it square-sided with long funnel-shaped bellends . |
| 25 | The UK supplier , Ambrit Ltd ( tel : 0442 866294 ) ships it complete with 12-page User 's Guide and Limited Unwarranty : ‘ We do offer a 90-minute warranty . |
| 26 | That will make it complete with ordinary Flora — which suggests that makes Van den Berghs recognise that even Flora is going to lose sales to low-fat spreads . |
| 27 | Substantial losses have occurred of semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats , notably moorland and rough grassland , much of it attributable to agricultural intensification ( especially cultivation and reseeding ) . |
| 28 | Nor is it due to black people 's possession of special gifts or talents which equip them more satisfactorily for certain sporting events . |
| 29 | Recreational skiers tense up when they encounter fear , be it due to difficult snow conditions , moguls or gradient . |
| 30 | That is what attracts investment from abroad and makes it profitable for domestic industry to invest as well . |