Example sentences of "making it [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His photograph on the licence had his eyes shut , making it illegal in California . |
| 2 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 3 | Pegasus were first to create any chances in front of goal but they overplayed the ball at the vital moment , making it easy for Portadown to clear . |
| 4 | Microsoft is now trying to market Windows as a stepping stone to OS/2 , by making it easy for users of Windows and writers of programs for Windows to migrate to OS/2 eventually . |
| 5 | ClubCall are making it easy for People readers to vote by telephone if they choose not to use the voting form on Page 41 . |
| 6 | The sides are made of contrastingly coloured elasticated nylon with no foam fitted , the lack of kidney protection making it unsuitable for use in canoe polo . |
| 7 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 8 | ANGLIA Television yesterday announced a partnership with New York based Home Box Office , making it one of Britain 's leading producers and commissioners of drama and entertainment . |
| 9 | Lotus is also expected to streamline its Notes pricing , making it uniform across platforms , and comprehensible as far as multiple licenses go . |
| 10 | Subsequently the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act brought almost all development under control by making it subject to planning permission . |
| 11 | France : Since a law making it compulsory for employers to offer hepatitis B vaccination to healthcare employees was passed in January 1991 , usage of vaccine has risen nearly four-fold . |
| 12 | The German government recently drafted regulations making it compulsory for car makers to take back their old cars when they are due to be scrapped . |
| 13 | Sir , — There is a small but growing voice to be heard expressing the desire for the introduction of the Australian system of making it compulsory for people to vote in political elections . |
| 14 | In Compressor/Expander mode , compression on the neck pickup swells out the tone to a given ceiling and sustains it , making it good for McCartney-esque melodic lines , but also for slapping , as the limiter-like properties of the compressor prevent massive explosions of sound . |
| 15 | Within a short time , his former employers ordered 100 tons of the new material , thus making it worthwhile for ICI to build a production plant . |
| 16 | This characterizes the prey assemblages of the three larger species of canid studied , but the bat-eared fox has only 19 per cent of the incisors in its prey assemblages lightly digested , the lowest of any of the mammals and making it equivalent to categories 1 or 2 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ADVANCES in microelectronics are making it possible for countries to switch to a military strategy that is purely for defence and has no offensive capability — if they want to . |
| 19 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 20 | The opportunity was taken to provide the different subjects with their own suites of rooms making it possible for Departments to stamp their characters on their surroundings . |
| 21 | In factories and workshops , advances in machine technology had deskilled numerous working-class jobs , thus making it possible for employers to replace skilled men with successive relays of unskilled boys , and at lower wages . |
| 22 | The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 . |
| 23 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 24 | Employees at Echo Logic Inc , the AT&T-owned start-up , which is making it possible for Apple Computer Inc to run Mac programs on PowerPCs ( UX No 385 ) , are reportedly negotiating with Mama to get a 20+% chunk of the company as sweat equity . |
| 25 | Sergei Yushenkov , a leading democrat in the Russian parliament , guesses that , for less than $10m , you could bribe enough deputies to resign , making it impossible for parliament to form a quorum and thus forcing a general election : a small price to pay for removing a big obstacle to reform . |
| 26 | Grass and weeds are growing onto the footway and making it impossible for parents with pushchairs to use if . |
| 27 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 28 | 1 ) JOBS — The upper parts of the Himalayas are covered with snow throughout the year making it impossible for animals and people to live there . |
| 29 | The factory had lost £10m in five years and Timex despaired of making it profitable by world standards . |
| 30 | I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers . |