Example sentences of "became [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 2 | Instead , it became possible for the Poles to compete on the open market and to bid against the Commission with capital made available by the Polish banks . |
| 3 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 4 | In other words , it became possible for the intensity of development to be determined in advance by a local authority . |
| 5 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 6 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 7 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 8 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 9 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Still the guns churned this treacherous slime , the surplus water poured into the trenches as its natural outlet , and they became impossible for the troops … men staggered warily over duckboards . |
| 11 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 12 | In the adjusted analysis subfertility of the partner became indicative for the fertility of the woman because of the fact that within this subgroup women with lower fertility are over-represented among those entering a donor insemination programme . |
| 13 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
| 14 | In default of this being taken up , however , it became lawful for the mineral or metal to be disposed of as convenient . |
| 15 | It became imperative for the new latitudinarian archbishops to avoid countenancing the view that the Revolution was a victory for the intolerant Anglicanism of Sancroft 's and Proast 's type . |
| 16 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 17 | With the exhibition of Johannes Heisig , Tammen & Busch present a prominent young representative of the Leipzig School of painters , which became famous for the dissolution of figuration into shimmering points of colour . |
| 18 | The campaigns were not only successful politically , but they also became famous for the deeds of prowess and valour done by the leaders of the English forces and the booty and ransoms they won . |
| 19 | Christ 's birthday only became important for the Church when infant baptism replaced adult baptism . |
| 20 | The concepts of self-referentialism , strangeness and improbability , all central to Magritte 's paintings , were easily adapted and assimilated into his advertising , and again became important for the development of the genre . |
| 21 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 22 | Significantly , he also became responsible for the development of the Board 's Chapter III provision in rural areas . |
| 23 | Telford , though not sacked , disappeared from the project and Benjamin Bevan , one of the Grand Junction 's own engineers , at first nominally in tandem with Telford , became responsible for the later development . |
| 24 | The durations prescribed by the Royal College when it became responsible for the curriculum and examination have steadily increased . |
| 25 | Thereafter , the Lord Chancellor became responsible for the Council on Tribunals , appointing its chairman and members , staffing it , and sticking up for it when it needed help against recalcitrant departments . |
| 26 | France 's leader , General de Gaulle , had his own aims in Germany however and ironically France , rather than Russia , became responsible for the early failure of the joint Allied administration . |
| 27 | China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from , but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other . |
| 28 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 29 | By virtue of section 65(2) , that decision imposed on the council a duty to secure that accommodation became available for the occupation of the plaintiff and his family . |
| 30 | Farmers were encouraged to produce 'cash crops ’ — less land became available for the poor . |