Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I 'd found something unlooked for that had changed the course of my entire life . |
| 2 | They 'd kept him awake for many an hour prior to an op . |
| 3 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 4 | The provision of free secondary education did make it possible for many children to get more easily the education they desired . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Vietnam the loss of a small intelligence network to the Japanese had made it essential for operational purposes that it should be replaced and it is at this point that Ho Chi Minh and the American OSS found each other . |
| 7 | English pragmatism had made it possible for many educational administrators to use an intelligence test in addition to examinations of attainment , as a refinement of their selection process . |
| 8 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 9 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 10 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 11 | Yet , at the same time she knew she had laid herself open for such a reply . |
| 12 | So there was no question but that section 2 of the 1911 Act applied to make it unlawful for any person to communicate information without authorization . |