Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] for [adj] " 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 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 3 | Almost immediately after 5 Corps entered southern Austria , it found itself responsible for hundreds of thousands of surrendered enemy personnel , camp followers and civilian refugees , of many different nationalities . |
| 4 | American Express found themselves responsible for hundreds of barking duffel bags . |
| 5 | I am quite pleased that Auckland fly-half Grant Fox has changed his mind and made himself available for international action . |
| 6 | In 1892 he began an involvement with Earls Court , by laying out the grounds for the international horticultural exhibition ; but the industrial exhibition of 1894 , of which he was a director , was a financial failure , and Milner made himself responsible for some of the debts . |
| 7 | The words were insignificant , but there was something in his tone that made her happy for some reason . |
| 8 | Cairnpapple is one of the most important archaeological sites in Scotland and was where prehistoric man worshipped and buried his dead for 3000 years . |
| 9 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 10 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 11 | Well it made him drowsy for one thing , it kept knocking him out . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I kept them interested for half an hour and now I ca n't even remember what I said . |
| 14 | The question kept her awake for several hours while she repeatedly reminded herself that it could only bring her heartache . |
| 15 | His quality of ruthless innocence rendered him unsuitable for most human intercourse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 18 | These peaks and troughs made it impossible for developing countries to plan ahead . |
| 19 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 20 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 21 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 22 | No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse . |
| 23 | It was this same moral , ethical dimension which finally , after September 1939 , made it impossible for Nizan to remain working within the ranks of that same party . |
| 24 | The military crisis of the early 1740s ( see pp. 290ff ) made it impossible for this situation to continue . |
| 25 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Major Stewart also made it possible for many sports clubs to have their own ground so all sport is catered for . |
| 28 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |