Example sentences of "that [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.

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1 At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work .
2 The proximity of Tribschen to Basle obviously made contact easier , but it was undoubtedly Nietzsche 's new professional eminence that made it particularly welcome to Wagner and led to a rapid development of the relationship between the two .
3 They stayed mainly in the front room where there were rugs on a black-flagged floor that made it wonderfully cool to come into from the burning heat of the headland .
4 The voice purred with a fury that made it no less memorable .
5 Once more the Cult of Luxury began to spread , this time cloaked in a secrecy that made it even more attractive to jaded Elf aristocrats .
6 And somehow that made it more real .
7 It was a bizarre kind of inconsistency , and that made it more difficult to make the decision to join Fleetwood Mac , because we thought there might be something going on here .
8 The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive .
9 Michele was answering with a brevity that made it abundantly clear that he was disinclined to talk about the sculptor .
10 But later she developed an allergy to feathers , and that made it very difficult for her when I wanted to keep birds in the house !
11 I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families .
12 Conferences used to be a British strength , but this one was sponsored by Honda — the company that made it socially acceptable to ride a motorcycle without donning ‘ leathers ’ .
13 But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever .
14 Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect .
15 And that made it all the more thrilling , especially when she recalled some of the women he 'd been photographed with .
16 But what was it about the concept of citizenship that made it so popular in political discussion and why were ‘ boy labour ’ reformers so eager to introduce working-class adolescents to its supposed virtues ?
17 Inside the mouse 's body , of course , the poison that made it so easy to catch is still present and can cause serious damage to the unfortunate cat .
18 Perhaps it was the universal bond between animal lovers and vets that made it so easy to become part of the community .
19 ‘ On the road , there was a real sense of release and freedom , that made it really fun , ’ recalls Neneh .
20 Blue eyes that made it hard to look away .
21 Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top .
22 Two of the three ‘ motives ’ outlined above are of special importance to the study of implementation , since the removal of some aspects of policy making from direct political influence and deference to special interests both introduce complications that make it particularly difficult to distinguish policy making from implementation .
23 Some of the culture-based arguments clearly have political ingredients , but one strictly political argument , or rather political-system argument , is equally applicable to any new political movement ( whether left , right or centrist ) seeking long-term viability — that the British first-past-the-post electoral system has features that make it extremely difficult for a new party to ‘ break through ’ .
24 Some species also add entrance passages , long downward pointing tubes that make it extremely difficult for snakes or any other intruders to plunder the nest .
25 " You think that make it all right — if no one know ? "
26 Eating disorders tend to come from childhood , or problems , or ways people have approached food in the past and the pressure is on women to be slim to fit into these categories are er , just more pressures that make it very difficult for somebody who has an eating disorder to sort the problem all these pressures just make it more difficult .
27 He says he does not want to privatise loss-making state industries , or change the labour laws that make it virtually impossible for an employer to fire any employee .
28 But the Turkish government keeps slapping extra taxes on the crop that make it less than competitive .
29 It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals .
30 This approach could involve studying the statistical distribution of child abuse , or comparing a group of known child abusers with a non-abusing control group , in order to try to identify and isolate some of the factors that make it more likely that some parents will abuse their children .
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