Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] for the " in BNC.
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1 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
2 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
3 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
4 | The contracting system to which my hon. Friend referred has made it possible for the health authority to provide extra capacity for the specialty at Exeter hospital which will ensure that the waiting list can be worked off much more quickly than would otherwise be possible . |
5 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that the further substantial increase in the NHS 's capital budget in the next financial year has made it possible for the health authority and the Ministry of Defence to come to an agreement on that issue . |
6 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
7 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |
8 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
9 | The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines . |
10 | Reid , preparing for today 's confrontation at Ewood Park , declared : ‘ Blackburn have made it harder for the rest of us but there is no point in bleating about it . |
11 | No , no , no , it has n't cos I 've just used it all for the erm |
12 | Yeah , I 've I sprayed it pink for the Rocky Horror and I ca n't get it out ! |