Example sentences of "makes it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inclement nature of the British weather makes it either easier to stay put , or alternatively , if absolutely necessary , don galoshes , raincoat and ‘ souwester ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ There has been much talk that Rangers have the title sewn up but we still have 58 points to play for and that makes it ludicrously premature to suggest that the destination of the title is cut and dried , ’ said Brady . |
| 3 | In most casings this makes it pretty awkward to get at , but the Sigma 's casing is spacious enough to allow access to these vital sockets . |
| 4 | That makes it painfully expensive to sell the pound short . |
| 5 | This makes it rather impractical to implement a home produced system that can read bar codes from everyday products and provide the appropriate string of text . |
| 6 | The English language is particularly rich in words we can use to describe our emotions , which makes it rather difficult to assess how many basic emotions there are . |
| 7 | Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film . |
| 8 | They are also closely associated with University College Cork , which makes it particularly pleasant to welcome them to Queen 's for their first visit . |
| 9 | The current financial situation facing local education authorities and academic institution makes it particularly difficult to overcome these problems without cooperation . |
| 10 | This uncertainty makes it particularly interesting to know whether intentionally childless women are different in personality or attitudes from those who wish to have children , and whether these attitudes could readily become more widespread . |
| 11 | Third , many political objectives may remain unquantified and even unacknowledged , and this makes it even harder to tell exogenous from endogenous reasons for failure to meet targets ( e.g. NEDO 1976 : 40 ) . |
| 12 | Even if some sounds are similar to some in your own language they still need to be practised , as they may differ just a bit , and that sometimes makes it even harder to get them sound right automatically . |
| 13 | This makes it always possible to rest competing theories on the same facts . |
| 14 | There are sound anatomical reasons for this — the distance of the penis from the anus militates against direct infection from that source , and the ‘ external ’ nature of the penis makes it more easy to keep clean and perhaps abort an early infection . |
| 15 | Secondly , it is aimed high and to the side of the opponent 's chest , since this makes it more difficult to block . |
| 16 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 17 | Withdrawing the hand too far makes it more difficult to launch a fast follow-up technique . |
| 18 | The excessive use of embargoes devalues the practice and makes it more difficult to ensure that the embargo is kept when it is really important . |
| 19 | I mention it here in order to signal that the existence of legal rules and sanctions makes it more difficult to uncover from historical evidence why people in the past gave financial assistance to their relatives , if they did , and in particular , to decide how far such assistance was based upon feelings of obligation or duty . |
| 20 | That sort of assault makes it more difficult to get up . |
| 21 | For example , the mobility of the evidence of pollution renders it potentially visible to a number of possible reporters but at the same time makes it more difficult to trace to its origin . |
| 22 | For developing countries , this internalisation of innovation makes it more desirable to strike a bargain with the innovator , because the alternative of paying patent fees simply does not exist . |
| 23 | This makes it doubly important to identify clear aims in order to secure continuity and progression within the English curriculum from 5 to 16 . |
| 24 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |
| 25 | Designs can be executed by incision or drilling , relief carving can be done with quite simple tools and the comparative porosity of the material makes it relatively easy to achieve polychrome effects by staining . |
| 26 | The mass of legislation governing the haulage industry makes it quite easy to step outside the confines of the law , albeit inadvertently . |
| 27 | This makes it quite difficult to get accurate figures about school-age mothers . |
| 28 | Using still images makes it much easier to initiate discussion of the organisation and use of space : the constraints of the task allow us to focus on specifics ; the stillness makes the work much more open to inspection . |
| 29 | Windows makes it much easier to exchange information between different packages ; there are various mechanisms , one of which allows you to use the mouse to highlight a chunk of information in a spreadsheet , say , to be cut-and-pasted to a Windows word processor via an intermediate storage area called a clip-board . |
| 30 | Do n't let it come across like that , the temptation is to think that you 've got to have all this bit up here , now you do n't want this up here because it 's very difficult to cope with once you 've tied it round to get it round the elbow , you want the least amount that you can get , just cover the arm and then it makes it much easier to deal with at the end . |