Example sentences of "making it [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 12 August 1746 the Disarming Act became law , making it illegal for anyone in the Highlands to own or carry specified types of weapon , including broadswords , or to wear Highland costume . |
| 2 | Isabel found her eyes clinging to him , his height making it easy for her to watch his approach . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he suggested softly , as if he might be making it easy for her , although she could n't imagine why he should . |
| 4 | And then the minute he wants something — which is only ever one thing — you 're all over him , making it easy for him and when he 's got what he want he says ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 5 | She was n't making it easy for him to rescue her . |
| 6 | With close colleagues there is more chance of explaining the best way of ‘ making it easy for them ’ , of getting them on your side as allies . |
| 7 | I understand that the electronic intarsia carriage selects the needles for only one colour at a time to the intarsia position , making it easy for you to lay in the appropriate colour . |
| 8 | Thus could the very first and important step in the rise of god-worship have been initiated , by making it unnecessary for there to be an actual physical connection between the objects of faith and the believer . |
| 9 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 10 | The chemical agent which they contain , making it possible for them to use water in the photosynthetic process , is chlorophyll , which is also possessed by true algae and the higher plants . |
| 11 | Carter , on the other hand , not only had big majorities , but was a centrist ideologically — a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative who was also a liberal on civil rights , the environment and education , making it possible for him to straddle the historical division in the Democratic party . |
| 12 | They succeeded , thus making it possible for me to make predictions which could afterwards be verified . |
| 13 | in making it possible for me to do part-time research . |
| 14 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
| 15 | By a process of ‘ abstraction ’ , moreover , it was possible for these general notions to be ‘ impressed ’ on our minds or intellects , thus making it possible for us to think in terms of them . |
| 16 | ‘ Exercise is good for it , ’ he said , the familiarity of the Butts lost in the fog and making it necessary for him to still proceed carefully . |
| 17 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 18 | Dumbly she shook her head , the threatened tears making it impossible for her to speak . |
| 19 | His face was set , making it impossible for her to guess what was going on in his mind . |
| 20 | Her knees were trembling again , but he held her pressed hard against him , both her arms locked behind her back , making it impossible for her to get away . |
| 21 | This approach therefore builds a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it impossible for them to break free . |
| 22 | On food safety , my hon. Friend will be aware of the crippling effect of veterinary inspection charges on chicken-producing companies such as John Rannoch and Sovereign Chicken in my constituency , which are making it impossible for them to compete with their European counterparts . |
| 23 | His left Achilles tendon became badly shortened , making it difficult for him to put his foot to the floor , and he had a strong positive supporting reaction in his foot . |
| 24 | The rain had almost stopped , but various projections over the pavement in Fleet Street dripped on Dyson as he passed , wetting the lenses of his spectacles and making it difficult for him to see where he was going . |
| 25 | We 're not pressing teams and making it difficult for them , which has previously been the basis of our success . |
| 26 | The welfare state therefore acts as a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it difficult for them to move up through their own efforts . |
| 27 | Clare 's solicitor explained to her that men often forced their wives to return by refusing to grant a divorce and making it difficult for them to obtain money — even when it was awarded by a court . |
| 28 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 29 | Their captain 's making it difficult for them on the blower |
| 30 | The guns firing from the direction of the River Orne were making it difficult for me to hear what Taff was now saying . |