Example sentences of "make it [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 32 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 33 | On 1 January 1982 a Government Decree made it lawful for private trading by ‘ collaboration of persons for economic purposes ’ , and indeed the 1988 Act itself calls unlimited partnerships where only individual persons participate the same name . |
| 34 | The Housing and Town Planning Act made it obligatory for local authorities to prepare surveys of their housing needs , to draw up plans to deal with them , and to carry out their schemes . |
| 35 | Constant changes in accounting criteria , for example in the allocation of items between operating and investment accounts , made it difficult for external controllers to calculate the true size of the deficit . |
| 36 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |
| 37 | for this reason , there must be query languages available which make it easy for untrained users to use the system . |
| 38 | Staff shortages , combined with the patients ' helplessness and their invisibility from the general public ( few visitors come to these wards ) , make it easy for private toileting or modesty to be ignored and emotional lives denied . |
| 39 | Carbon is important and deserves to have its own private branch of chemistry , partly because life chemistry is all carbon-chemistry , and partly because those same properties that make carbon-chemistry suitable for life also make it suitable for industrial processes , such as those of the plastics industry . |
| 40 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 41 | The last of these poses a special problem , since the terms of Lady Barber 's bequest make it impossible for temporary exhibitions to take place within the building . |
| 42 | To a large extent technology has eroded much of MI6 's original style of work while modern communications make it difficult for political decisions to remain secret for very long even behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 43 | The political leadership of the majority party and therefore the party in government and occupying ministerial office might find it politically expedient to preserve the rules and conventions which make it difficult for other politicians to call the bureaucracy to account . |
| 44 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 45 | Also out to do a bit of Pentium party-pooping were NEC Corp and MIPS Technologies Inc , with launch of the low-power 64-bit VR4200 RISC , which dissipates less than 1.5W , making it suitable for battery-powered portables capable of running Windows NT . |
| 46 | Out to do a bit of Pentium party-pooping last week were NEC Corp and MIPS Technologies Inc , with launch of the low-power 64-bit VR4200 RISC , which dissipates less than 1.5W , making it suitable for battery-powered portables capable of running Windows NT . |
| 47 | To sum up , the Peugeot is a lightweight , 1.9kg , line trimmer , that will but swathes of around 250mm diameter , making it good for average garden use . |
| 48 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 49 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 50 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 51 | The range is also hypo-allergenic , making it perfect for sensitive scalps . |
| 52 | Hence the current emphasis on sustainable development ( meeting our needs without making it impossible for future generations to meet their needs ) , which is what the Earth Summit is meant to be giving some practical expression to . |
| 53 | The Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 was an abominable piece of legislation , privatising immigration and putting it in the hands of aircraft and shipping companies , encouraging the use of bogus identity documents and , in many cases , making it impossible for legitimate asylum seekers to leave their own countries . |
| 54 | These viruses change their composition every time they load , making it impossible for conventional scanning software to find a known , fixed , virus signature . |
| 55 | If anything it will make their lives easier by making it impossible for American companies and citizens to keep anything confidential . ’ |
| 56 | Thus , for the Piaroa , ‘ hunting ’ includes all capabilities for acquiring animal meat and for making it edible for human consumption . |
| 57 | It can be pruned quite hard , making it controllable for small gardens . |
| 58 | A social worker could facilitate that kind of meeting , making it safe for painful things to be said , past help acknowledged . |
| 59 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 60 | But by being ashamed of who they are , they 're making it harder for other people to accept them . ’ |