Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 2 | Well it made him drowsy for one thing , it kept knocking him out . |
| 3 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 4 | Admittedly there was only a single bed but that was fine by us ; we kept it warm for each other as we were doing shifts of two hours each . |
| 5 | No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse . |
| 6 | The military crisis of the early 1740s ( see pp. 290ff ) made it impossible for this situation to continue . |
| 7 | However , as UK cement manufacturers discovered to their cost , high prices in the UK market made it worthwhile for low cost EC and third country suppliers , located at deep water ports , to begin supplying the UK market . |
| 8 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 9 | The share system of land ownership did not meet the approval of the British , and legislation was passed which made it possible for any shareholder to force the division of a tract . |
| 10 | On 1 January 1982 a Government Decree made it lawful for private trading by ‘ collaboration of persons for economic purposes ’ , and indeed the 1988 Act itself calls unlimited partnerships where only individual persons participate the same name . |
| 11 | This made it difficult for modernist aesthetics to become oppositional . |