Example sentences of "[vb past] it possible for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition . |
| 3 | He thought I was too silly for words , but he made it possible for me to keep Perdita , so I 'll always be grateful . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it was this , the fact that she now had someone else to love her , that made it possible for me to make a proper apology , to stutter out confusedly , red-faced , that I was sorry about what had happened . |
| 5 | He admired Jotan 's detachment , and concluded that it was the lack of direct involvement which made it possible for him to behave as if nothing had occurred which could be the source of concern . |
| 6 | It was a belief in a designing and orderly God which made it possible for him to think there might be a consistent cause for his ‘ headaches ’ . |
| 7 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 8 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 9 | GLC funding made it possible for them to conduct a research project into the lives of young lesbians and gays . |
| 10 | Their long-lived presence made it possible for them to act as a kind of semi-permanent critique of newer cultural trends . |
| 11 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 12 | Advertising made it possible for them to distribute news practically free of charge , with the profit coming from marketing . |
| 13 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 14 | She put us back on our feet and made it possible for us to live again . |