Example sentences of "it [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They succeeded , thus making it possible for me to make predictions which could afterwards be verified . |
| 2 | Is it possible for us to provide facilities , skills and help from the Atomic Energy Authority to help them with that difficult problem ? |
| 3 | The comprehensive range of facilities that it provides makes it possible for you to create patterns for all of these popular garment shapes , to suit your own individual tensions and measurements . |
| 4 | It has then made two points : ( 1 ) that other people manage curricula within centralised systems , which is encouraging ; but ( 2 ) that other people have cultural backgrounds which make it easier for them to manage curricula within centralised systems , which is discouraging . |
| 5 | We are considering many other aspects in order to improve the position of women in the civil service — to make it easier for them to take jobs , leave to have children , and return later . |
| 6 | Do we not , in supplying technology to the USSR , make it easier for her to free resources for military purposes ? |
| 7 | It makes it easier for us to take notes . ’ |
| 8 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 11 | His move to the Isle of Wight was part of a campaign of harassment , making it harder for him to receive visitors , and he is constantly being threatened with placement in the psychiatric wing of the prison . |
| 12 | This would make it harder for me to make changes ; and it would have implications for the responsibilities of Departmental Ministers since Select Committees would try to summon the Chairman of Cabinet Committees to give evidence in addition to the responsible Minister . |
| 13 | Greenpeace says that farmers will thus be tied into an agricultural system dependent on chemicals by making it attractive for them to buy herbicides in tandem with resistant crops . |
| 14 | As far as the trade was concerned we tried to , and still try to , do whatever makes it easiest for them to order books from us and sell them . |