Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 2 | In areas where the inflation of housing prices has made it impossible for many local people to obtain their own homes , the sight of outsiders purchasing houses when they already have one elsewhere can be an affront to local dignity . |
| 3 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 4 | The low level of the aircraft on entering the Harbour and its speed , would have made it impossible for heavy anti-aircraft guns to depress and traverse to follow the aircraft and even difficult for 30mm cannon such as Bofors , even when the aircraft climbed to sixty feet to drop its torpedo . |
| 5 | On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS . |
| 6 | English pragmatism had made it possible for many educational administrators to use an intelligence test in addition to examinations of attainment , as a refinement of their selection process . |
| 7 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 8 | The emotional problems contained in ‘ customs , ceremonies and dogmas left behind by the original relation to the father may have made it possible for later generations to take over their heritage of emotion ’ . |
| 9 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 10 | So we began to ponder on the circumstances which might have made it necessary for such a tiny place to be defended . |
| 11 | In Vietnam the loss of a small intelligence network to the Japanese had made it essential for operational purposes that it should be replaced and it is at this point that Ho Chi Minh and the American OSS found each other . |
| 12 | Their growth is partly a response to the falling numbers of secondary pupils , which has made it difficult for many smaller schools to make up viable sixth form classes in less-popular A level subjects . |
| 13 | This is a small-scale or unofficial credit union where people group together to help each other with major purchases , though we heard that the current rate of inflation has made it difficult for such groups to attract support . |
| 14 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 15 | And the severity of the recession has made it difficult for those companies that have reached the end of the five-year period to find an exit route for their BES investors . |
| 16 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Recently safety regulations have made it obligatory for all competitors to wear fist protectors . |
| 18 | The UKCC has now made it mandatory for all nurses to attend a five-day refresher course every three years to maintain their registration . |
| 19 | Instead , I 'd found something unlooked for that had changed the course of my entire life . |
| 20 | She knew she was back quite early , but they usually came when she called , knowing she would have brought something special for each of them . |
| 21 | Yet , at the same time she knew she had laid herself open for such a reply . |
| 22 | Part of England 's concern is that Gooch has already declared himself unavailable for next winter 's tour of West Indies . |
| 23 | The 35-year-old St Helens pack star has declared himself available for next month 's World Cup Final against the Aussies . |
| 24 | Most organisations involved in functional catering establish and maintain lists of people whom they have screened for their suitability and who have declared themselves available for casual work . |
| 25 | They 'd kept him awake for many an hour prior to an op . |
| 26 | The Government , in order to attack the notion of the Welfare State , has held it responsible for encouraging dependency , idleness and the break-up of families . |