Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 9 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 12 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 13 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 14 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 15 | The failure of the Director of Public Prosecutions , QC , to instigate any criminal charges against the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of , by the inquest jury on November 29th 1991 at Middlesborough Coroners ’ Court . |
| 16 | invites the Bar Council to investigate the decision by the DPP not to prosecute the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of . |
| 17 | The affluent world found millions for the Gulf war and must find millions to tackle the problems of refugees at source . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Things always livened up , he went on , when Ring 's opened ; things got set for the season . |
| 22 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
| 23 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 24 | I added that for the old tape , you know ? |
| 25 | Gooch and Pringle then added 113 for the seventh wicket and Neil Foster gave good support to remove all fears of an Essex follow-on . |
| 26 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 27 | Shoaib , whose previous highest Test score was the 163 he notched up against New Zealand at Wellington earlier this year , added 134 for the fifth wicket with his captain , Imran Khan . |
| 28 | It was scant reward for Andrew and Grant Flower who added 192 for the fourth wicket . |
| 29 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 30 | In this situation it seemed appropriate for the staff at Perth College to offer educational opportunities which would parallel those available in other music fields . |