Example sentences of "it more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices . |
| 2 | He promised ( i ) to drop immediately the 10 per cent tax on imports ; ( ii ) to eliminate Central Bank financing of the National Treasury , except for guaranteed financing provisions , and to streamline fiscal accounts to avoid deficits ; ( iii ) to combat speculation ; ( iv ) to end private and public monopolies ; ( v ) to introduce tax reforms at the beginning of the new year aimed at simplifying the tax system and making it more progressive to " make everyone participate in the national effort " ; and ( vi ) to carry out an administrative reform in the state sector with some state companies to be privatized . |
| 3 | Is it more successful in reducing lead times ? ( a question we take up in the following section ) |
| 4 | The editor writes : The tannic acid in tea will certainly acidify your soil , making it more agreeable to lime-hating plants . |
| 5 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 6 | Other factors have also forced a rethink on the left , making it more palatable to Washington . |
| 7 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 8 | Throughout his period in office , de Gaulle stuck to this line ( and to the principle of a decentralized Germany ) , although he tried to make it more palatable by recasting it in terms of Germany 's integration within a larger West European bloc . |
| 9 | To do this you slide back your rear foot so that the stance lengthens ( this makes it more stable in a longitudinal direction ) and your centre of gravity drops . |
| 10 | Although the earlier calculation of the value of the SDR in terms of a basket of sixteen currencies had the advantage of making it more stable in value than individual currencies , it had nevertheless certain shortcomings . |
| 11 | makes it more annoying in one sense that we wasted the chance to make ground on everyone . |
| 12 | Higher demand for credit will drive up interest rates , making it more profitable for banks to supply more credit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 15 | Changes are to include a nine-member national executive , a regional council and clearly defined leadership structure , which will make it more akin to mainstream political parties . |
| 16 | It had a long-standing concern with the problems of authority and discipline , and its stronger philosophical tradition made it more compatible with the intellectual rigour of hygiene theories . |
| 17 | However , it 's still a vague definition and we often find it more useful to er tidy that definition up by introducing , conformance with requirements . |
| 18 | Some independent study potential but techniques suggested make it more useful in a class setting . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We will undertake reform of the teacher training system to make it more effective in developing classroom skills . |
| 21 | The other problem is that Labour is not interested either in reforming the political process very radically to make it more effective in protecting citizens . |
| 22 | I am pleased to report that in 1992 I was able to substantially achieve one of the objects of my Presidency , the refurbishment of the main exhibition galleries at Portland Place , making it more welcoming to members and the public and better able to put the case for architecture . |
| 23 | If a panel interview is unavoidable , you can make it more efficient by : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A lowered credit rating makes it more expensive for a company to issue new debt . |
| 27 | Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ? |
| 28 | Er er Madam Speaker er non-wage costs never get into employees wage packets but do make it more expensive for employers to provide a job . |
| 29 | From cheap and cheerful to expensive and depressing The cheaper pound may seem good news for industry in the short term , but companies could find it more expensive in the long run |
| 30 | He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter . |