Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that in some parts of the country , notably in the north-east , one or two local authorities have made it rather difficult for protective street furniture to be erected along the sides of roads where there has been ram-raiding . |
| 2 | Only a small proportion of this music demands more than one voice part , making it highly suitable for congregational singing , and it is easily accompanied by instruments other than the organ . |
| 3 | The existence of large and mobile capital flows makes it extremely difficult for national governments to overcome market pressure and maintain an exchange rate which is not compatible with general market sentiment . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue . |
| 5 | Only in the vast wastes of Kislev is it still common for entire villages to be raided and destroyed by marauding wolf packs , and for children to be stolen away or herds of domestic animals to be destroyed in a single night . |
| 6 | A number of suggestions are also made to make it more attractive for overseas companies to employ non-domiciled nationals . |
| 7 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 8 | Does the press narrow popular conceptions of rape and make it more difficult for raped women to obtain justice ? |
| 9 | The changes in social security legislation will make it more difficult for young people estranged from their parents or who have suffered physical or sexual abuse to receive financial or practical help . |
| 10 | They also made it more difficult for temporary residents or visitors to become permanent residents . |
| 11 | The role of the noise is to make it more difficult for particular types to unambiguously signal their information . |
| 12 | Suffolk BMA spokesman Dr David Meldrum said : ‘ We are worried by anything which makes it more difficult for ill people to get the drugs they need . ’ |
| 13 | ( 1 ) Changes in the ways that schools are managed and funded have made it more difficult for Christian Aid to relate to schools . |
| 14 | No decisions have yet been made as to pricing , but O'Connell says ACT intended to make it as easy for existing customers as possible . |
| 15 | The rise in house prices , which has recently done so much to increase the capital owned by a sizeable group of the population , has made it increasingly difficult for other people , and particularly those whose parents are poorer and who do not own a house , to join the ranks of the upwardly mobile , capital-accumulating home-owners . |
| 16 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 17 | Its effectiveness at low concentrations , and cheapness make it particularly suitable for high volume industrial requirements , treating large areas or circulating at relatively high speed in clean-in-place systems and for process water disinfection . |
| 18 | Devices such as internal pricing made it relatively easy for international companies to disguise the transmission of funds in or out of the country , quite apart from the purely technical problem of valuing overseas assets . |
| 19 | Last month , the government passed legislation extending market exclusively for most patent drugs for another three years and modifying Canada 's system of ‘ compulsory licensing ’ , which makes it relatively easy for generic drug companies to copy brand-name products ( see Nature 359 , 351 ; 1992 ) . |
| 20 | Cuts of that level would decimate the existing service and make it almost impossible for underdeveloped areas of the service such as facilities for children with physical disabilities , imaginative respite , and family-based care schemes and improved under-fives facilities to be developed . |
| 21 | The Alliance , an opposition grouping of five minor parties which had achieved 14 per cent of the vote in the 1990 election but secured only one of the 97 seats , campaigned strongly for change on the grounds that the current system made it almost impossible for minor parties to gain significant parliamentary representation . |
| 22 | Now , on the national issue of course , like all legislation there are all the side issues that pop up after the legislation has been passed , and there 's no question in my mind that one of the side effects of the opting out legislation that it will make it very difficult for local authorities to reorganize . |
| 23 | These obstacles have made it very difficult for British companies to launch takeovers on the continent , despite the fact that in 1988 the aggregate value of foreign takeovers in the UK amounted to around £35 billion , which was 73% by value of the EC total , followed by France with a mere 10% of the takeovers ; in 1990 over £30 billion worth of UK firms fell into foreign ownership , that is over four times the comparable figure in France , Germany or Spain . |
| 24 | They make it very difficult for British firms to make acquisitions , especially hostile bids , and show the ‘ single market ’ to be in reality a very one-sided affair , pivoted far too much against British interests . |
| 25 | What you need to do is to be able to provide a private sector a certain level of certainty , that the concession will be er granted long enough so that one can recover both your costs an=and certainly be able to make a profit and so er to the extent that the franchises that are being considered are short natured , seven years , er that becomes rather disadvantageous and unattractive er concessions of twenty and thirty and forty years , and and really thirty thirty to forty year period er do make it in fact make it very attractive for private sector involvement . |
| 26 | Holding dinner for Lessingham made it too late for comfortable digestion . |