Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed . |
| 2 | Organisers said the display was amusing but warned that some people might consider it unsuitable for young children . |
| 3 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 4 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 5 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 6 | ‘ God 's green earth in all its fullness is for the people ’ he proclaimed , and set about making it possible with characteristic fervour . |
| 7 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 8 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 9 | but the crucial factor which makes it possible for middle-class women to enter the labour force and , at the same time , maintain traditional values in the home , is the existence of the domestic servant . |
| 10 | By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables . |
| 11 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 12 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 13 | The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters . |
| 14 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 16 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 17 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 18 | The Government 's objective was to make the industry more efficient , to bring it into the latter part of the 20th century and to make it possible for British mines to produce competitively . |
| 19 | I offer as an example some of my own Inspector Ghote novels , particularly the early ones , since I have found it possible in recent years to shift , as it were , Ghote 's character into higher , more serious gear . |
| 20 | The UK supplier , Ambrit Ltd ( tel : 0442 866294 ) ships it complete with 12-page User 's Guide and Limited Unwarranty : ‘ We do offer a 90-minute warranty . |
| 21 | That will make it complete with ordinary Flora — which suggests that makes Van den Berghs recognise that even Flora is going to lose sales to low-fat spreads . |
| 22 | Substantial losses have occurred of semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats , notably moorland and rough grassland , much of it attributable to agricultural intensification ( especially cultivation and reseeding ) . |
| 23 | Nor is it due to black people 's possession of special gifts or talents which equip them more satisfactorily for certain sporting events . |
| 24 | Recreational skiers tense up when they encounter fear , be it due to difficult snow conditions , moguls or gradient . |
| 25 | That is what attracts investment from abroad and makes it profitable for domestic industry to invest as well . |
| 26 | Here a late-19th century district of five or six storey apartments arranged along narrow gridiron streets was suffering from many of the environmental problems characteristic of inner-city areas — lack of greenery , unsafe junctions , chaotic parking conditions and fast traffic , much of it rat-running between neighbouring traffic generators such as the railway station to the south and the four-lane Rhein Allee to the north . |
| 27 | Paragraph 4–278 of Archbold , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) is to the same effect , though it must be read in the light of the guidelines , which their Lordships find it unnecessary for present purposes to consider . |
| 28 | Pensioner strikes it rich with Roman treasures |
| 29 | Her temper made it inadvisable at other times . |
| 30 | ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’ |