Example sentences of "it [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had Cora-Beth been incredibly patient and understanding about his reluctance to become engaged these past two years , but during that period of his life she had somehow made it possible for them to renew their old easy friendship . |
| 2 | If the patient had hobbies before his stroke or head injury , such as drawing , painting or needlepoint , you should try to make it possible for him to take them up again . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Brooke-Rose 's encounter with Lacanian theories of subjectivity made it possible for her to relinquish her last link with realism by breaking with the notion of character as discrete individual . |
| 6 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 7 | How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ? |
| 8 | The shape of a tapir makes it possible for it to push its way through the thick undergrowth at considerable speed . |
| 9 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 10 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 11 | A shower fitment on the bath taps facing the patient makes it easier for him to wash himself thoroughly . |
| 12 | as possible to make it easier for them to set it up , is that we 're hoping to develop within the next er few months in fact , a certification form |
| 13 | . In ten years time if you just give them a derisory thirty pence off people leave their children at home make it easier for them to bring them with them . . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 16 | If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily . |
| 17 | Please keep them short and to the point , and , if possible , word processed rather than hand-written ( it makes it easier for us to read them ! ) . |
| 18 | Please keep them short and to the point , and , if possible , word-processed rather than hand-written ( it makes it easier for us to read them ! ) . |
| 19 | I think you have something definite to say — and I hope I have made it easier for you to say it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I 'd make it easier for you to suck me off . ’ |
| 21 | She was n't making it easy for him to rescue her . |
| 22 | Isabel found her eyes clinging to him , his height making it easy for her to watch his approach . |
| 23 | His perceptual difficulties may make it impossible for him to recognize you and his immediate family or your relationship with him . |
| 24 | You 've made it impossible for him to change his mind , with your carry-on in public . |
| 25 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 26 | His face was set , making it impossible for her to guess what was going on in his mind . |
| 27 | It makes it impossible for them to pursue their careers and the average hospital bill that faces them often exceeds $ 100 000 . |
| 28 | When Edmund Wilson attended a performance of The Confidential Clerk , however , he found it " rudimentary " ; everyone in London seemed to agree with him but , he said , " respect for Eliot had made it impossible for anyone to commit himself by printing a sincere opinion " . |
| 29 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I would like it fine for you to advise me how I am to repaint my ceilings , Doctor ! |