Example sentences of "made it [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition . |
| 32 | He thought I was too silly for words , but he made it possible for me to keep Perdita , so I 'll always be grateful . ’ |
| 33 | Perhaps it was this , the fact that she now had someone else to love her , that made it possible for me to make a proper apology , to stutter out confusedly , red-faced , that I was sorry about what had happened . |
| 34 | He admired Jotan 's detachment , and concluded that it was the lack of direct involvement which made it possible for him to behave as if nothing had occurred which could be the source of concern . |
| 35 | It was a belief in a designing and orderly God which made it possible for him to think there might be a consistent cause for his ‘ headaches ’ . |
| 36 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 37 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 38 | GLC funding made it possible for them to conduct a research project into the lives of young lesbians and gays . |
| 39 | Their long-lived presence made it possible for them to act as a kind of semi-permanent critique of newer cultural trends . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Advertising made it possible for them to distribute news practically free of charge , with the profit coming from marketing . |
| 42 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 43 | She put us back on our feet and made it possible for us to live again . |
| 44 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 45 | It was an unfair advantage , though ; it made it harder for him to evade answering . |
| 46 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 47 | Mrs Peel thought the EP to be more sympathetic than the other professionals she had encountered and that made it easier for her to convey her views to him . |
| 48 | But male compositors made it easier for them to do this , and justified the division of labour , when they agreed that women could not attain all the skills of the trade . |
| 49 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 50 | She says : So that made it easier for you to carry on then . |
| 51 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 52 | It was agreed that the growing diversity of pressures upon schools made it difficult for them to adapt intelligently and consistently . |
| 53 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |
| 54 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 55 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 56 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 57 | Their duties made it difficult for them to meet frequently but they seized every opportunity to be together and their love grew stronger every day . |
| 58 | Banks entered this market in a big way in the early 1980s , after the abolition of the ‘ corset ’ scheme , which inhibited the growth of their interest-bearing deposits and made it difficult for them to lend large sums without incurring financial penalties imposed by the Bank of England . |
| 59 | But the craftsmen 's talents were crippled by unemployment , while high taxation on the former governing classes made it difficult for them to commission buildings or goods of a quality acceptable to Lutyens and his contemporaries . |
| 60 | The use of restraints upon building investment as an economic regulator to prevent excess domestic demand made it difficult for them to achieve their targets . |