Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 4 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 5 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 9 | A well-flighted right wing cross by Paul Raynor seemed perfect for the unmarked 6ft 4in player , but he headed over from seven yards . |
| 10 | His credentials seemed gold-plated for the new face of Toryism . |
| 11 | It seemed sad for the pregnant women , especially , to be in such a depressing house . |
| 12 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 13 | Printing a section heading as a node name of the semantic net also sometimes seemed inappropriate for the printed form . |
| 14 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 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 | Sun Microsystems Inc turned biblical for the virtual reality display it mounted at Siggraph last week : equipped with a headset , the wearer got swallowed up and landed in the belly of a fish . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
| 20 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
| 21 | A rib cage injury forced Pringle to leave the ground after five overs , in which he conceded only six for Haynes 's wicket , and Simmons then broke free for the second time with devastating effect . |
| 22 | Terry , 26 , worked undercover for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection . |
| 23 | It wearies me to imagine the preparations that will prove necessary , what dismantlings and shovellings , what wounds worked open for the sudden closure … |
| 24 | Erteco , for example , broke even for the first time only last year . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Farmers were encouraged to produce 'cash crops ’ — less land became available for the poor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Their report , published by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , draws on climate data made available for the first time to the West by the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences . |
| 30 | True , Travis Hepwood , Rosemary 's secret boyfriend , would be with them too , but since Leith liked Travis very much , and felt sorry for the two of them , entertaining Travis as well was no problem . |