Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants . |
| 2 | Gradual changes of attitude make it easier for the glider pilot to follow in position behind the tow plane . |
| 3 | The relentless struggle of the workers against unemployment and hunger in times of peace as in times of war makes it vital for them to organise for the overthrow of the capitalist system and for the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth . |
| 4 | That lack of leadership makes it difficult for him to do other than cavil at our figures . |
| 5 | Critics claim the technology is 1980s passe and not for Unix and that it would take a tremendous amount of engineering to make it suitable for modern enterprise-wide client/server applications that demand object-oriented solutions . |
| 6 | Now Russo then representative democracy is n't a refinement of democracy to make it appropriate for the modern world , but a way of giving away all the merits of democracy . |
| 7 | " The whole complex story of AIDS is dealt with in clear text , simple diagrams and universally excellent photographs … will teach most doctors more about AIDS than half a dozen lectures — its accuracy and simplicity of style make it suitable for anyone connected with the management of patients . |
| 8 | Health regulations are subject to change , and you should check with your own doctor prior to departure as to which inoculations the Department of Health consider it necessary for specific areas . |
| 9 | The second buyers compounded the goods into food for birds and the third buyers bought the compound and fed it to poultry which died because , unknown to anyone at the time of supply , the compound included minute traces of poison rendering it unfit for poultry . |
| 10 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |
| 11 | While the politics of the time may have been sterile , it does appear to have had more than its share of colourful characters ; bogus radicals like A.P.T.James and Chanka Maharaj ; the legendary and fabulously wealthy Bhadase Maraj , who was an American-style ward boss ; Norman Tang , whose mastery of the ‘ art ’ of inscrutability made it possible for him to ‘ develop the reputation of being the only minister never accused by the Civil Service of political interference ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Task format and quiz with key makes it suitable for private study and for use by non-specialist teachers . |
| 14 | And this was their undoing because the surfaces of the branches had earlier been covered with lime to make it impossible for them to take flight again — ever again . |
| 15 | Freer use of money for recruitment made it easier for kings to recruit armies when and how they wished ; and for knights and nobles to lead their lives according to their own inclinations . |
| 16 | The large number of forms in circulation made it difficult for the authorities to keep track of them . |
| 17 | It can also in effect make it impossible for them to participate in the community and thus deprives them of an important aspect of citizenship . |
| 18 | On an application for any interim relief under subsection ( 1 ) the court may refuse to grant that relief if , in the opinion of the court , the fact that the court has no jurisdiction apart from this section in relation to the subject-matter of the proceedings in question makes it inexpedient for the court to grant it . |
| 19 | The realisation that this is a racist society , a society which wishes them dead for the colour of their skin , accentuates their loneliness , and their isolation in turn makes it harder for them to fight against racism . |
| 20 | Our cautionary comments and suggestions are offered to ease the transitional processes of attachment and detachment in order to improve them both for the individual and the organisations involved . |
| 21 | They and the school together planned ahead in order to make it possible for pupils to feel that they , too , knew themselves better . |
| 22 | In order to make it worthwhile for people to buy bills , therefore , they must be sold below their face value ( i.e. at a discount ) . |
| 23 | As we noted in Chapter 10 , oligopolists have an incentive to carry out socially unproductive advertising in order to make it harder for new entrants to meet the fixed costs of breaking into the industry , thereby leaving more of the market and the profit for existing firms . |
| 24 | His naturally long strides , she suspected , he was deliberately making even longer in order to make it difficult for her to catch up ! |
| 25 | The bill also made permanent changes in the system in order to make it easier for more people to qualify for extended jobless benefits in the future . |
| 26 | He had been made mayor by the Germans during the Occupation , and had in fact done his best for the villagers . |
| 27 | Her unfortunate gaffe over tea made it impossible for Elisabeth to offer any excuse when Mitzi Baum accosted her on the stairs on the way to dinner and asked her to share her table . |
| 28 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 29 | The weight of the transporter with five new Rovers on top made it impossible for emergency services to lift off . |
| 30 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |