Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 2 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 3 | In other words , it became possible for the intensity of development to be determined in advance by a local authority . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Its green eyes caught light for a moment as it peered up at Doyle , then it had raced away into the night , a sleek , dark shape , perturbed by the presence of furtive human life on its territory . |
| 6 | They stopped rollicking for a couple of seconds and looked impertinently in their direction . |
| 7 | Carrie could hear his cooing to the child and the answering wail of discomfort and her face became serious for a moment or two . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was a joke , but Zurachina 's face became thoughtful for a moment . |
| 10 | Things always livened up , he went on , when Ring 's opened ; things got set for the season . |
| 11 | Peering through glass misted over with our breathing , I crawled over De Waal Drive , got lost for a while in the streets of Claremont , then found Lansdowne Road . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The conditions seemed right for a repetition of the French Revolution on English soil . |
| 14 | As she fell into the dark interior of the hut , one cramped leg came free for a moment , and in that split second the bird kicked out viciously . |
| 15 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The old man seemed lost for a moment . |
| 18 | He began to nibble the lobe of her ear and seemed lost for a moment until she gave him a little shake to encourage him to go on and explain . |
| 19 | All seemed set for an experiment in unity . |
| 20 | However , the point to notice is how the data seemed ideal for the investigation as conceived : intimate life-histories are central to the project . |
| 21 | Since Lanskoi was the only appointee who could have been described as a reformer , the new body augured ill for the cause of reform . |
| 22 | Dismissing Paisley 's support as ‘ a fascist organization masquerading under the cloak of religion … deluding a lot of sincere people … hell-bent on provoking religious strife in Northern Ireland ’ , he seemed unprepared for the reaction against him within his own party . |
| 23 | The choice seemed curious for a scientist . |
| 24 | His elder brother , Nails , still at school , played water-polo for the town and stole cars . |
| 25 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 26 | This eldest boy seemed remorseful for a moment . |
| 27 | They surfaced at intervals , burned hot for a time and then slipped back underground , to be stored again in layers of social and religious memory . |
| 28 | The time seemed ripe for a cabinet and prime ministerial intervention which would give Britain a higher profile space policy . |
| 29 | When the Drama sub-committees of the Schools Council English Panel were presented with a proposition from Lynn McGregor , a London teacher with a strong interest in the sociology of education and her own research into Drama teaching on its way ( 1976 ) , to launch a full-scale research project , the climate seemed ripe for the subcommittee to make a recommendation . |
| 30 | The new Russian leaders seemed anxious for a thaw in the Cold War , and despite Dulles " reservations , the President agreed to a " summit " meeting at Geneva in July 1955 . |