Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This salinates the surrounding land , reducing its fertility and rendering it completely unfit for rice cultivation in a couple of years . |
| 2 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 3 | But the West has manufactured substitutes and commodity prices have crashed — making it increasingly hard for Third World countries to earn enough to repay their debts . |
| 4 | According to Wolfgang Wunnenberg of the DMT Institute , the coke filter also absorbs other toxic pollutants , such as mercury and dioxins , thereby making it equally suitable for incineration plants and the steel industry . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue . |
| 6 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 7 | Is your journey really necessary ? the posters demanded accusingly , making it downright unpatriotic for a civilian to even think of occupying a seat on a passenger train . |
| 8 | In short , Doctor Morris was bored with Aurae Phiala , and succeeded in making it slightly boring for his readers . |
| 9 | It is a light oil with a high flash point , making it particularly good for stir-frying as it leaves the food crisp . |
| 10 | If it appeals to you , the new stain-resistant kitchen carpet , available as tiles or in sheet form , is very warm and quiet , making it particularly suitable for a kitchen-diner . |
| 11 | Only a small proportion of this music demands more than one voice part , making it highly suitable for congregational singing , and it is easily accompanied by instruments other than the organ . |
| 12 | A dwindling of public support both North and South making it virtually impossible for men to operate on Guerrilla lines — one of the basic ingredients for a successful guerrilla campaign is the support of wide sections of the people . |
| 13 | Reducing the emphasis on ‘ selling him up ’ and making it more possible for creditors ' claims to be met out of a debtor 's future income was one of the main objectives of the Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Sir Kenneth Cork which was appointed by the Government in 1977 and reported in 1982 . |
| 14 | Higher demand for credit will drive up interest rates , making it more profitable for banks to supply more credit . |
| 15 | He also invented an improved form of the steam-engine indicator , making it more suitable for higher speeds and pressures , which he patented in 1850 . |
| 16 | If that approach prevails in the higher courts , it will amount to a major reverse , making it more difficult for the ordinary citizen to complain of unlawful action by a public authority . |
| 17 | But industrial development takes remunerative work out of the home , making it more difficult for wives and mothers to participate . |
| 18 | She is certainly making it more difficult for herself to succeed . |
| 19 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 20 | Increasingly , tea and rubber plantations reduced the number of places where cattle could freely wander , thus making it more difficult for animals to be stolen , hidden and transported . |
| 21 | The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) . |
| 22 | A kind of downward spiral results , the kids growing progressively more pessimistic about their chances , their hopes plummeting and their general postures making it more difficult for them to get jobs . |
| 23 | In a shock move , the US General Services Administration has dropped IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp software and hardware from its annual purchasing lists , the Washington Post reports , making it more difficult for government agencies to acquire the products . |
| 24 | The first is that , where they exist , they have created a new barrier to entry , making it more difficult for third world firms to compete . |
| 25 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 26 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 27 | And erm should you go round them in such a way that erm is making it more difficult for you and more difficult for other people ? |
| 28 | If you damage crops or upset animals you are making it more difficult for someone to earn their living . |
| 29 | ‘ obstructing , for the present purposes , means making it more difficult for the police to carry out their duties . ’ |
| 30 | I would construe ‘ wilfully obstructs ’ as doing deliberate actions with the intention of bringing about a state of affairs which , objectively regarded , amount to an obstruction as that phrase was explained by Lord Parker C.J. in Rice v. Connolly i.e. making it more difficult for the police to carry out their duty . |