Example sentences of "made it [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Malone said , ‘ Made it easy for them to get in . ’
2 Watching her now , in this setting , made it easy for him to believe this .
3 This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was .
4 Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace .
5 While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises .
6 The Americans found that the deepening Cold War made it impossible for them to give equal priority to all their objectives .
7 Their emphasis on the absolute centrality of heterosexual experience made it impossible for them to see that purity feminism had anything to offer , with its emphasis on celibacy , and its view of sex as male-defined , vicious and depraved .
8 In her study of young Asian men and women who were unemployed , Brah notes that sons with widowed mothers felt under particular pressure to support them financially and practically , and when unemployment made it impossible for them to do so they felt ‘ an acute sense of failure ’ as one of her interviewees put it ,
9 Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy .
10 The wash of a passing collier rocked both boats and the enormous reverberation of her wailing hooter filled the air and made it impossible for them to speak .
11 The vicious personal attack on him by Ernets Bevin and his humiliating defeat made it impossible for him to remain as leader .
12 This gravely restricted Law 's room for manoeuvre and made it impossible for him to accept the only compromise that Asquith could offer .
13 His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him .
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 His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing .
16 This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years .
17 He had made no plans : fatigue made it impossible for him to think rationally .
18 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 .
19 ‘ I did , but you made it impossible for me to refuse . ’
20 They made it impossible for me to stay .
21 ‘ You made it impossible for me to stay , ’ he said rather tightly .
22 The mixture of anger and guilt which overwhelmed his widow made it impossible for her to grieve and weep for the loss of the good things shared in the early days of their marriage .
23 The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends .
24 The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking .
25 Spencer had always been the favoured one , beloved by mother since his difficult birth made it impossible for her to have any more children .
26 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 .
27 The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment .
28 At the office during the week he found circumstances made it necessary for him to ring most of his influential friends and acquaintances — Sims , the paper 's tame lawyer ; Sir William Paice ; Brent-Williamson , the Literary Editor ; Huysmanns at the French Embassy .
29 ‘ It was basically the novel that made it necessary for me to look into the Bible .
30 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 .
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