Example sentences of "it [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot , behind the green baize door . |
| 2 | It is therefore a very powerful dating technique making it possible to date the right archaeological samples ( see p. 144 ) to the year of felling , as well as providing the accurate calendar timescale necessary for radiocarbon calibration . |
| 3 | At this time the nurse may find it possible to gauge whether the patient is anxious and if so what the source(s) of this anxiety may be . |
| 4 | This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) . |
| 5 | Revenues from non-System V products such as Transaction Processing and Networking were up $5.2m or 54% , most of it attributable to Services . |
| 6 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 7 | The unravelling of their chemistry has been one of the great achievements of 20th century science , a large part of it due to sir Norman Haworth , whose studies in this field spanned more than 30 years . |
| 8 | Is it due to intimidation by the record companies ? |
| 9 | Now the tax has been scrapped , but was it due to citizenship or merely the need of a new leader to gain popularity ? |
| 10 | He had once been a prisoner in Parfois himself , he knew the castle and the country round it , and owed his escape from it alive to Master Harry and none other . |
| 11 | This range of white worm size makes it unnecessary to culture either microworm or grindal worm . |
| 12 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 13 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 14 | That was unthinkable to the British generals , even though Napoleon III made it clear to Lord Palmerston that he did not intend to usurp the command and so the problem would not arise . |
| 15 | He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation . |
| 16 | It is failing to make it clear to parents that the law gives them full rights to withdraw their children from religious instruction and religious observance . |
| 17 | JS advertisements made it clear to customers they could expect higher standards from Sainsbury 's . |
| 18 | ‘ What is very important is to turn the screw on Iran , to make it clear to Iran that if it wants to be treated as an equal member of the community of nations , it has to stop trying to murder their citizens . |
| 19 | I understand that this particular problem may be dealt with in the near future , and it is quite obvious that the Rules need urgently to be reconsidered in order to make it clear to circuit judges and to magistrates , who have the problem of dealing with these snatches , that they can deal with it in an appropriate way which is in the interests of the child concerned . |
| 20 | Agnew gets it clear to Ormanroyd . |
| 21 | HEARTBEAT , ITV , 8.00pm : Sergeant Blaketon ( Derek Fowlds ) makes it clear to PC Nick Owen ( Nick Berry ) that he wants a local burglar caught before the Assistant Chief Constable makes his scheduled visit . |
| 22 | I know that he will lose no opportunity to make it clear to employers and workers in that industry how devastating the prospects for their jobs would be if the Labour party 's proposals were put into effect . |
| 23 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 24 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 25 | France made it clear to New Zealand that it would allow more imports of lamb and dairy products into France if New Zealand reduced the charge against the couple to manslaughter and then deported them . |
| 26 | While Hurley remained preoccupied with inter-agency projects like Operation Goldenrod , Ganem soon made it clear to Coleman that he had little patience with Hurley 's intelligence operations . |
| 27 | ‘ The sentence must also make it clear to others that the law will not permit individuals of excellent character , such as yourself , to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 28 | The scheme has made it clear to managers that the teaching contracts represent a substantial part of each hospital 's budget , and Dr Pearson says that most managers are now very anxious to work with the medical school to ensure a good service for the students . |
| 29 | Conversely , the major benefits of privatization are likely to stem not from literally returning ownership to the private sector , but rather from associated measures which make it clear to managers that they are expected to compete effectively and efficiently . |
| 30 | The name Trail Quest is supposed to make it clear to cyclists that they should n't stray away from legal routes . |