Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 2 | When is a building sufficiently furnished for full habitation ? |
| 3 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 4 | The school in which they work is a building especially designed for teaching ’ . |
| 5 | And you have the framework of your story ready made for you , a great help to the beginner . |
| 6 | In addition , when applied two or three days prior to going on holiday , protective filters leave the skin better prepared for first exposure to the sun while preserving the natural qualities of the skin . |
| 7 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 8 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 9 | The whole trial only continued for 12 days . |
| 10 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 11 | Storytime in ‘ Magician 's Road ’ — As well as being able to enjoy the interactive children 's exhibition called ‘ Magician 's Road ’ , the Museum 's younger visitors will be able to listen to a storytime especially written for them . |
| 12 | The aircraft industry alone accounted for one-third of expenditure . |
| 13 | The bag contained wool , needles and a pattern for a sweater obviously intended for Penry , by the measurements ringed in red . |
| 14 | The army command long pressed for a local ‘ home guard ’ such as had been the rule in Malaya , Kenya and other terrorist situations . |
| 15 | Richard now married Berengaria in a wedding long remembered for its splendour . |
| 16 | There were also four lumps of silver apparently intended for circulation . |
| 17 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |
| 18 | The pupil may be labelled genius or idiot , and the mathematical thinking not credited for what is is . |
| 19 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 20 | ALANNAH MYLES : ‘ A Song Instead Of A Kiss ’ AOR , Grammy-winner best known for her ‘ Black Velvet ’ hit , issues a taster from her forthcoming second LP |
| 21 | A sign warning trespassers printed in the copper-plate script normally reserved for wedding invitations would inhibit nobody . |
| 22 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 23 | Only in Prussia and the eastern border districts was the emancipation not revoked for the simple reason that the Junkers needed the Jews to operate between the Prussian nobles and the German peasants , and as go-betweens for the Prussian Poles . |
| 24 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 25 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 26 | Mr selected the figure seventeen it is in no spirit of perversity that I have lit upon a figure not contended for by either of the parties , namely eighteen . |
| 27 | Below-the-line advertising , the term generally used for merchandising in stores including in-store promotions , is another case in point . |
| 28 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 29 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 30 | In this country , the figure generally taken for designing rainwater systems is a maximum rainfall of 75mm ( 3in ) a day . |