Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the snails found it too wet for comfort … climbing fifteen feet up house walls to escape . |
| 2 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 3 | I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots . |
| 4 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |
| 5 | One needed it too much for its own sake . |
| 6 | She thought it very bad for the image of women that they should always be seen as the people most likely to follow their hearts and not their heads . |
| 7 | Berghaus 's Softflex midsole gives very easy walking , but I thought it too flexible for use on rough ground ; nor did it have quite enough ankle support . |
| 8 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 9 | There were a lot of wonderful things about the organisation and about Tony DeFries — he really is a wonderful man and gave a lot of people a lot of opportunities , but we all took it so much for granted . |
| 10 | By the 1960s enthusiasm for such industrial-type resettlement units was waning , and the rising unemployment of the late 1960S and 1970s made it increasingly difficult for people with chronic mental disorder to find work on the open job market . |
| 11 | Where Chapman perhaps got it wrong was in underestimating Ronnie 's ambition , his ruthless quality of self-appraisal , the total superiority of the Lotus which made it equally possible for either driver to win the championship , Ronnie 's far more exuberant and attacking style and the pent-up frustrations of Ronnie 's own career . |
| 12 | This approach made it inherently possible for the Jews to claim to have been the teachers of the Greeks owing to their own greater antiquity . |
| 13 | ‘ In addition to interfering with existing contracts , ’ said Lord Reid ‘ the defendant 's action made it practically impossible for the appellants to do any new business with the barge hirers . |
| 14 | The choice of a forester — also made by the author of a thirteenth-century Flemish genealogy — is interesting : the word itself was a new one , having no classical or late-antique Latin form ; perhaps its associations with hunting and riding made it particularly appropriate for a family renowned for its martial skills . |
| 15 | The French government succeeded in carrying through their plans for three reasons — because the more centralised legal and planning structure made it less easy for pressure groups to hinder progress , because , to a large extent , the government 's arguments — that it was a straight choice between nuclear power and penury — were both heard and largely accepted and , finally and possibly most important , direct and immediate financial benefits were offered . |
| 16 | Instead of providing a service when it was most needed , the bus companies and British Rail were persuaded to provide services only when the road network made it less attractive for people to use public transport if private transport was available . |
| 17 | Devices such as internal pricing made it relatively easy for international companies to disguise the transmission of funds in or out of the country , quite apart from the purely technical problem of valuing overseas assets . |
| 18 | When he entered the party in 1927 , his radical , iconoclastic temperament made it relatively easy for him to align his own cultural views with those of a sectarian political group . |
| 19 | They made it too easy for me . |
| 20 | Holding dinner for Lessingham made it too late for comfortable digestion . |
| 21 | But its price tag of around £100 million made it too expensive for a purely national project , and the cost has been split between three countries with Britain and the US joining the Netherlands . |
| 22 | The scarcity of jade , the distances from which supplies were drawn and the high input of labour needed to work it made it too expensive for ordinary working purposes . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 24 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 25 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 26 | This face of anxiety refined and narrowed the horse 's muzzle , and so made it more attractive for a photograph ! |
| 27 | The EOC found that direct discrimination occurred when managers described the mobility requirement differently to men and women and made it more onerous for women to comply with it . |
| 28 | There is still a strong sense in Britain that even to discuss foreign policy is somehow unpatriotic or obscene , and this certainly made it more difficult for Labour to raise international questions . |
| 29 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 30 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |