Example sentences of "it [adj] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A combination of history , tradition and resources makes it possible for the cathedral to set high standards , musically as well as liturgically . |
| 2 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 3 | There would be no point in designing software to control access to the video disc , unless suitable interfaces are also available to make it possible for the computer in the system to communicate with the video disc player and control its operation . |
| 4 | I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved . |
| 5 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 6 | By creating favourable situations and environments in this way , the physiotherapist makes it possible for the patient to move actively and specifically without effort . |
| 7 | The British Library 's Research and Development Department offered a substantial grant ( RDD/C/160 ) to make it possible for the seminar to take place . |
| 8 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 9 | It is this kind of objective correspondence which makes it possible for the experience of racism to become connected to paranoid structures of feeling and phantasy which originate at a quite different and more unconscious level of representation . |
| 10 | Sun 's purchase of Praxsys will make it possible for the software to come to market . |
| 11 | Is it possible for the Church of England to proclaim this redemption with integrity and conviction in our day unless it ordains women as well as men as priests ? |
| 12 | Was it possible for the corpse to have been so treated , with the ‘ hollownesse ’ of every bone to be filled up with solid lead ? |
| 13 | The new factory made it possible for the company to produce increasingly elaborate garments . |
| 14 | Nor is it possible for the sufferer to ‘ snap out of it ’ as is often suggested with varying degrees of tactfulness . |
| 15 | The best type of treatment for both psychosomatic complaints and hypochondria is some form of psychotherapy or hypnotherapy ( see p l53 ) which should make it possible for the sufferer to identify the underlying emotions that are responsible for the symptoms . |
| 16 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 17 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 18 | The Council of Nicaea was the largest assembly of bishops hitherto , and though the great majority of the members were from the Greek East , the presence of Roman legates and the prominent role played by the sees of Alexandria and Antioch made it possible for the council to be given the title ‘ ecumenical ’ . |
| 19 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 20 | Later technical changes in transport were to make it possible for the city to change its nature by spreading out great suburban dormitories , and electrification would help to decentralize industry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The market makes it possible for the peasant to grow and sell cash crops , rather than just maintaining a subsistence economy and therefore to produce a surplus . |
| 24 | Knowledge of the addressor in a given communicative event makes it possible for the analyst to imagine what that particular person is likely to say . |
| 25 | For this reason they are often seen to be weak ; yet it is this very willingness of the subordinates to shift their own goals in order to preserve the harmony of the team that makes it possible for the group at the top of the hierarchy to perform at all . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Is it usual for the cover men to have a revolver and a shot gun ? |
| 28 | Now there 's a word that covers that and that the the choice of words based on on getting it right for the audience particularly in terms of jargon is what is called wordsmith . |
| 29 | If the money to fund a curator is n't raised in time , the Pitt Rivers music collection will be the only music collection of its class in the world without a qualified musicologist to look after it and keep it alive for the rest of us . |
| 30 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |