Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 2 | I am quite pleased that Auckland fly-half Grant Fox has changed his mind and made himself available for international action . |
| 3 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 4 | These peaks and troughs made it impossible for developing countries to plan ahead . |
| 5 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 6 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 7 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 8 | However , as UK cement manufacturers discovered to their cost , high prices in the UK market made it worthwhile for low cost EC and third country suppliers , located at deep water ports , to begin supplying the UK market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the features of the cerebral hemispheres is that they have more extensive interconnections from one part to other parts than is usual in sensory centres , and perhaps this was the feature , inherited from its origin as the smell-brain , that made it useful for other modalities as well ; global pattern recognition requires taking into account large chunks of sensory information , not just localised patches . |
| 13 | On 1 January 1982 a Government Decree made it lawful for private trading by ‘ collaboration of persons for economic purposes ’ , and indeed the 1988 Act itself calls unlimited partnerships where only individual persons participate the same name . |
| 14 | The Housing and Town Planning Act made it obligatory for local authorities to prepare surveys of their housing needs , to draw up plans to deal with them , and to carry out their schemes . |
| 15 | Constant changes in accounting criteria , for example in the allocation of items between operating and investment accounts , made it difficult for external controllers to calculate the true size of the deficit . |
| 16 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |