Example sentences of "it [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years . |
| 2 | All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed . |
| 3 | Er is it possible for me to get closer ? |
| 4 | She put us back on our feet and made it possible for us to live again . |
| 5 | You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here . |
| 6 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 7 | Bankers do not make it easier for them to do so by , for example , facilitating the transfer of standing payment orders . |
| 8 | The White Paper will make it easier for them to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ He felt it foolish for me to do otherwise . |
| 10 | We want to make it easy for everyone to go abroad on holiday , regardless of limited mobility or other handicaps . |
| 11 | We have rounded off calorie values of meals to make it easy for you to add together your 450 — 1,100 calories allowed for the day ( in addition to your 400 from Fibre-Filler , fruit and milk ) ; we have also rounded off metric ingredient figures for easy measuring . |
| 12 | The cost of developing power plants to meet ever-tougher emissons laws will make it cost-uneffective for them to do so themselves , he contends , especially if engines are destined for low volume applications . |
| 13 | He had made no plans : fatigue made it impossible for him to think rationally . |
| 14 | His nationalisation and fury at British exploitation made it impossible for him to compromise even if it was clear that this policies were self-destructive . |
| 15 | The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 18 | The Red-Hot Gruncher makes it impossible for us to walk anywhere in the wood . ’ |
| 19 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 20 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 21 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |
| 22 | It was agreed that the growing diversity of pressures upon schools made it difficult for them to adapt intelligently and consistently . |
| 23 | The sheer bulk of the material makes it difficult for them to do otherwise . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 26 | Competition among the owners of a particular resource may tend to force its price downwards ; those owners for whom its sale involves the greater sacrifices will tend to drop out of the race as the falling price makes it worthwhile for them to sell only fewer and fewer units of the resource . |