Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles . |
| 2 | During the 1950s and 1960s it was generally believed that the weak and strong nuclear forces were not renormalizable ; that is , they would require an infinite number of infinite subtractions to make them finite . |
| 3 | A single spoonful of buttered eggs made her feel sick . |
| 4 | But the violent character of the BUF and its unashamed adoption of foreign symbols made it unattractive to many who might otherwise have agreed with some of its policies , and made it doubly obnoxious to the Left . |
| 5 | So it was designed to be attractive to look at , but with curves , ovals and an absence of straight lines to make it difficult to swim in . |
| 6 | What is being claimed here is that , though it is of great importance , the complexity of the total set of sequential and prosodic components of intonation and of paralinguistic features makes it a very difficult thing to teach . |
| 7 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 8 | The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence . |
| 9 | There , a mosaic of national and racial groups and the sensitivity of great powers made it impossible to find either simple or peaceful geographical solutions to political problems . |
| 10 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 11 | The sudden , loud slam of the front door , and the sound of raised voices made her break off . |
| 12 | Overlapping membership and the inclusion in some membership figures of non-teaching members make it difficult to express union membership as a percentage of the teaching profession . |
| 13 | But the complication involved in writing the program and allowing for the high number of physical variables made it impracticable at that time . |
| 14 | The massive destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes it very difficult to justify them as ‘ effective ’ weapons in this sense . |
| 15 | His readings of heroic poems made him especially scornful of the notion that to say ‘ evil must be fought ’ is the same as saying ‘ might is right ’ . |
| 16 | The fine analysis of the DH sites upstream of the Ea gene has been hampered by the presence of repetitive/unstable sequences making them difficult to subclone , and thereby reduce the upstream regions to an absolute minimum as in the β-Globin LCR studies ( 14 ) . |
| 17 | Even in the most jealously guarded ‘ non-intervention zones ’ , the absence of big predators makes them a shadow of what they were in the past . |
| 18 | The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters . |
| 19 | The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements . |
| 20 | But all this is a different story , for the bomber aircrews not only had better aircraft to take the war to Berlin , they had better navigational aids , better weaponry , the Pathfinder Force , radio counter-measures , better planning and a host of other factors to make them more effective . |
| 21 | Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles . |
| 22 | But the discovery that it depleted the brain of certain transmitters made it a valuable tool in investigating brain mechanisms . |
| 23 | The Society of African Missionaries made him sign a document promising to be ‘ Faithful to church teaching in matters of faith and morals . ’ |
| 24 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 25 | But the suggestion that this basic Christian principle might be extended to a more explicit set of Christian values makes them uneasy . |
| 26 | A lack of capital , the tied cottage system , and the workers ' age and lack of formal qualifications make it impossible for many to move to better jobs elsewhere ( Newby 1972a ) . |
| 27 | The number and density of flying bodies make it almost impossible for them to select and catch a particular individual . |