Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The provision of free secondary education did make it possible for many children to get more easily the education they desired .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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