Example sentences of "it [adj] for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have made it possible for scientists to manipulate more precisely the genetic make-up of living organisms . |
| 2 | The 1980 Act also made it possible for parents to send their children to a school of their choice provided that places are available in their chosen school . |
| 3 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 4 | Open questions make it possible for respondents to say what they really feel , but it is difficult for the researcher to organize the answers into categories in order to count them . |
| 5 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 6 | Many of the reopenings were under the ‘ Speller ’ rule : Tony Speller 's 1981 Bill made it possible for services to reopen experimentally without the need to go through the formal closure procedures in the event of failure . |
| 7 | I hope that our reforms will make it possible for prisoners to do some useful form of work in prison . |
| 8 | The decree , which entered into force later in June , entitled Albanian citizens in principle to a passport for travelling abroad and re-entering the country , and made it possible for visitors to obtain entry visas at crossing points on the Albanian border . |
| 9 | Is it possible for students to sing with you , or are they here for too short a time ? |
| 10 | All five degree courses are organized and integrated within a common Faculty framework which makes it possible for students to opt for certain units outside their main subject area . |
| 11 | On the proposal that the training contract should make it possible for employers to recover the cost of their investment in training , the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred can be reflected in the contract . |
| 12 | In factories and workshops , advances in machine technology had deskilled numerous working-class jobs , thus making it possible for employers to replace skilled men with successive relays of unskilled boys , and at lower wages . |
| 13 | The opportunity was taken to provide the different subjects with their own suites of rooms making it possible for Departments to stamp their characters on their surroundings . |
| 14 | Many-celled bodies make it possible for genes to manipulate the world , using tools built on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the scale of single cells . |
| 15 | ADVANCES in microelectronics are making it possible for countries to switch to a military strategy that is purely for defence and has no offensive capability — if they want to . |
| 16 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 17 | The realities of modern medical technology have made it possible for doctors to extend the process of dying through the use , for example , of what are colloquially , but perhaps inaptly , called ‘ life-support ’ machines . |
| 18 | They and the school together planned ahead in order to make it possible for pupils to feel that they , too , knew themselves better . |
| 19 | Knowledge about language change makes it possible for pupils to understand more fully the nature of Standard English and how it relates to other varieties . |
| 20 | As for the argument that money would follow patients and so make it possible for hospitals to treat more of them , that was always a non-starter given that the total amount of cash available to purchasers was not going to be increased . |
| 21 | However , increasingly sophisticated and powerful software tools are emerging which make it possible for non-programmers to program . |
| 22 | The influence of party structures had for long been curtailed by the arrangements for selecting chairmen ; arrangements which made it possible for situations to arise where the president , the Congressional party leadership and a majority of the majority party could all be united on a particular issue yet might be thwarted by the whims of an all-powerful committee chairman . |
| 23 | SCOTVEC 's new Quality Framework , announced last year and due to be implemented in August , will make it possible for centres to take devolved responsibility for a range of quality assurance processes . |
| 24 | The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 . |
| 25 | The qualification has been designed to make it possible for candidates to select modules which will give them the equivalent of at least three Highers in arts or social science areas . |
| 26 | He suggests that there is a strong argument for decentralization to local government ( and potentially a limited hierarchy with some overlapping powers ) so long as information is available which makes it possible for voters to judge between them and thus to influence the direction of their own local government through elections . |
| 27 | The high concentration of women in jobs which are , in Blauner 's words ‘ the least skilled , the most repetitive , and the least free ’ makes it possible for men to have jobs with the opposite attributes . |
| 28 | IN an energy-conscious world , is it right for towns to switch on their Christmas lights so many weeks before the big day ? |
| 29 | Finally , he looks at the availability of the basic data which are accessible to researchers in child care ; to the kind of housekeeping information that should be kept by organizations and which if it is , makes it unnecessary for researchers to start from scratch every time . |
| 30 | The main fault I can find with the vehicle is the cab noise at speeds over 40 mph , ( it will only do 60mph ) I know the Land Rover was never meant for motorways but we plan on taking it on our holiday , is it normal for gearboxes to sound like they are going to fly out of the window or do I have a fault ? |