Example sentences of "made it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strong simplicity of his ideas about life and the universe made it easy to link him with other men of understanding , so that for me the book seemed to be ringing with echoes of Hamlet and Richard Jefferies and the New Testament . |
| 2 | In use , we liked the larger , rubber-padded vice pegs of the 750 , compared to the 536 , and the larger variety of possible positions , which made it easy to grip straight-sided , tapered or oddly-shaped items on the surface of the bench . |
| 3 | A 10ft long mains lead and a 12ft steam hose made it easy to reach high up to ceiling level and far away from the socket outlet . |
| 4 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 5 | A visit there on a warm , sunny afternoon yesterday , knowing something of how they met their end , made it easy to support the installation of a small plaque . |
| 6 | With this system , we have substantially reduced the capital cost compared with other processes and made it easy to integrate into existing equipment . |
| 7 | ( iv ) The canals made it easy to bring these materials together . |
| 8 | These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels . |
| 9 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 10 | The only things the Tories did for me as a businessman was to empty a lot of factory space which made it easy to buy up . |
| 11 | At least the house 's symmetrical plan made it easy to encompass . |
| 12 | It is easy to say now that the potential for cellular telephones made it easy to focus on that business . |
| 13 | I did hear some buyers indicate that the EUROAIM scheme made it easy to avoid , en masse , many troublesome independents , as they were all grouped conveniently together , but I trust this was a minority position ! |
| 14 | It made it easy to check if there really was an incontinence or urine problem , and also gave a warning about a possible difficulty with cramp . |
| 15 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 16 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 17 | Corman directed most of the picture but then had stop because union rules , to which he adhered religiously in terms of actors ' and technicians ' payments , made it impossible to continue with a fully fledged production team . |
| 18 | As darkness made it impossible to continue , all that remained was to put in a few of the darkest reflections . |
| 19 | President Alija Izetbegovic told reporters his meeting with mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was very short because of the ‘ bad news ’ from Bosnia which made it impossible to continue talks . |
| 20 | This split made it impossible to unite a broad democratic majority and left the republic divided almost from the start of the regime . |
| 21 | As has been mentioned , our limited resources made it impossible to examine the circumstances leading up to the arrest which might , or might not , explain this finding , and we were also unable to interview the police on this matter . |
| 22 | His own opening gambit made it impossible to take offence . |
| 23 | Defeated in his climb , he had been descending , heading for the window , hoping he could hammer on it and attract someone 's attention , but ice and spindrift made it impossible to see where he was going ; and now he was trapped . |
| 24 | From the wheelhouse the high-railed bow made it impossible to see immediately ahead . |
| 25 | A wide range of personal preferecnes in children across this age range made it impossible to use an absolutely standardised breakfast . |
| 26 | ( If so , I thought that was just the problem that made it impossible to use Rocky … ) |
| 27 | It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 29 | Last night Mr Portillo said the phrase ‘ full compensation ’ was meaningless because people lived in different homes in different circumstances and that there were too many variable factors that made it impossible to give a specific figure at present . |
| 30 | The resultant political disunity , probably exacerbated by quarrels over the best methods to adopt against the Scandinavians , and coupled with the king 's apparent inability to provide the necessary leadership , made it impossible to assemble successful armies . |