Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually it became necessary for a place of safety order to be made and for care proceedings to be instituted . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | It became common for a register or matricula of names to be kept . |
| 5 | It looked surprised for a moment , and then toppled over and shattered into gravel ( trolls being silicaceous lifeforms , their bodies reverted instantly to stone at the moment of death ) . |
| 6 | I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend . |
| 7 | I was running very slowly , simply because I was so tired , but it felt right for a change . |
| 8 | It went quiet for a while , then we were both rescued by a knock on the door . |
| 9 | On July 23 the Foreign Ministry confirmed the terms it considered acceptable for an " allied multinational force " to be based in south-eastern Turkey : the force was to come under the joint command of Turkish and US commanders ; its ground element would be based at the US/NATO airfield at Incirlik and its air element at Silopi , with some facilities available at Batman in south-east Turkey ; any intervention against Iraq would need Turkish government approval ; and initial Turkish permission for the presence of the force would expire on Sept. 30 . |