Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bodies were made of ‘ German silver ’ , essentially bell-brass , but with a high nickel content that turned the metal white and hardened it ready for engraving . |
| 2 | On thirty seven minutes though , Paul Biddle should have made it two nil as he found himself with just the Fairmile goalkeeper to beat , but stupidly played it wide for Brian Marland , but his final pass was poor and Fairmile 's Kevin Shepherd was able to clear the ball from the danger area . |
| 3 | Indeed , it could well have been the death of Archbishop Deusdedit in July 664 which rendered it essential for Oswiu , faced by the resurgence of Mercian power under Wulfhere , to establish his Catholic orthodoxy at Whitby if he was to play a part in finding a replacement for Deusdedit . |
| 4 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 5 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 6 | That made it 10 for Robins this season , and all in front of his policeman dad , Chief Inspector Gordon , who was in charge of crowd control at the ground . |
| 7 | The weight of the transporter with five new Rovers on top made it impossible for emergency services to lift off . |
| 8 | But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge . |
| 9 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 10 | Was there something about him which made it impossible for women to stay with him long ? |
| 11 | Her unfortunate gaffe over tea made it impossible for Elisabeth to offer any excuse when Mitzi Baum accosted her on the stairs on the way to dinner and asked her to share her table . |
| 12 | The conclusion drawn in the Malleus Maleficarum , the handbook on witchcraft written in 1486 by two Dominican friars , was that this made tears displeasing to the Devil , and he made it impossible for witches to cry so that they would never find repentance . |
| 13 | However , the steepness of its banks made it impossible for vehicles to cross except by the bridge at the southern and of the town which , in 1815 , was only two and a half yards wide at its broadest point . |
| 14 | It was precisely the moral , ethical dimension of communism which initially made it impossible for Nizan not to join the party and work within its ranks . |
| 15 | For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom ( v. 21 ) . |
| 16 | Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result . |
| 17 | This presented the Communists as a part of the federal Labour movement , and made it necessary for sections of the Labour Party to give serious consideration to Communist aims and activities . |
| 18 | Naturally , all this activity made it necessary for Mrs Carson to renew her whole wardrobe . |
| 19 | The Treatises supported such arguments , and it was his having , and being suspected by the government of having , such seditious views that made it necessary for Locke to flee to Holland in 1683 . |
| 20 | The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants . |
| 21 | We knew what lay down any other road : a political scandal that made it worthwhile for Parliament to get involved in Security . |
| 22 | A competitive world market made it essential for businesses to be at least as competitive as their overseas rivals . |
| 23 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 24 | The 1980 Act also made it possible for parents to send their children to a school of their choice provided that places are available in their chosen school . |
| 25 | To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled . |
| 26 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 27 | They proved much easier to collect than direct taxes and made it possible for government revenue to keep pace with the swift rise in production . |
| 28 | Many of the reopenings were under the ‘ Speller ’ rule : Tony Speller 's 1981 Bill made it possible for services to reopen experimentally without the need to go through the formal closure procedures in the event of failure . |
| 29 | The decree , which entered into force later in June , entitled Albanian citizens in principle to a passport for travelling abroad and re-entering the country , and made it possible for visitors to obtain entry visas at crossing points on the Albanian border . |
| 30 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |