Example sentences of "make it [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 2 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 3 | In Vietnam the loss of a small intelligence network to the Japanese had made it essential for operational purposes that it should be replaced and it is at this point that Ho Chi Minh and the American OSS found each other . |
| 4 | Recent changes in legislation have made it easier for local authorities to promote traffic calming schemes and a significant programme for their provision has been approved by the Regional Council . |
| 5 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder . |
| 7 | He has written on the issue to the new Fisheries Minister , Gillian Shephard , claiming that certain technical requirements in the Act could make it impossible for local fishermen to secure an adequate allocation of fishing days Royal crystal challenge STAFF at Welsh Royal Crystal , Rhayader , were commissioned to manufacture and supply the specially designed bowls which will be presented to each concert winner in the preliminary rounds , as well as goblets for each competitor , in this year 's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition at St David 's Hall . |
| 8 | Without a conceptual model of the market place and the organization 's possible place within it , general checklists of factors lack rigour and may simply make it easy for interested parties to emphasize different factors at different times , depending on their interests . |
| 9 | Next , the draft would make it cheaper for disgruntled shareholders to sue directors for mismanagement . |
| 10 | By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables . |
| 11 | We will make it easier for small schools to enjoy the benefits of GM status by grouping together . |
| 12 | " This development would not only be a danger in itself but also help set a trend which will make it easier for other countries in the region to follow , " a Greenpeace statement said . |
| 13 | The Government will make it easier for private financing of projects and will allow more use of leasing . |
| 14 | Disability Working Allowance will make it easier for disabled people to take up a job . |
| 15 | Readings such as that of Schüssler Fiorenza and Trible may make it easier for Christian women who are feminists to associate themselves with the Christian tradition . |
| 16 | That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . |
| 17 | Neither names are registered as a trade mark ; in fact the names would be refused registration because they are too descriptive of computer retailing generally and would make it difficult for other traders to describe their business activities . |
| 18 | As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret . |
| 19 | EGYPT has imposed travel restrictions which will make it harder for Islamic militants to cross the border with Libya . |
| 20 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 21 | These peaks and troughs made it impossible for developing countries to plan ahead . |
| 22 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 23 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 24 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 25 | However , as UK cement manufacturers discovered to their cost , high prices in the UK market made it worthwhile for low cost EC and third country suppliers , located at deep water ports , to begin supplying the UK market . |
| 26 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 27 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One of the features of the cerebral hemispheres is that they have more extensive interconnections from one part to other parts than is usual in sensory centres , and perhaps this was the feature , inherited from its origin as the smell-brain , that made it useful for other modalities as well ; global pattern recognition requires taking into account large chunks of sensory information , not just localised patches . |
| 30 | The hub-and-spoke system made it harder for small airlines to mount an effective challenge to major networks . |