Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was walloped for 31 for 1 in three overs and scored 20 . |
| 2 | The disposal of Ultramar 's refining and marketing businesses was completed during 1992 for US$125 million . |
| 3 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 4 | Lifting the cup of wine which symbolically pointed to His blood which would be shed on the cross He said ‘ This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins . ’ |
| 5 | Britain , to which the other West European states had looked after 1945 for a lead , was , if any further evidence had been required , clearly in the wings . |
| 6 | The stencils can be run onto sheets of labels every time there is a release to go out , or envelopes can be prepared in advance , sorted into those for dailies , weeklies and monthlies , and stored for future use . |
| 7 | Problems of this sort will quickly undermine the value of a recruitment system , which is designed above all for speed . |
| 8 | JOHN LENNON 's Academy Award , won in 1971 for the song ‘ Let It Be ’ , will be auctioned in New York on October 5 . |
| 9 | But UUUC voters were not so persuaded and their first preference votes varied from 2,609 for McNarry ( Un ) to 11,958 for Craig ( VUPP ) . |
| 10 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 11 | Pacino may pick a consolation Supporting Oscar for his hunchback in Dick Tracy , but this year could see instead ‘ length of service ’ Oscars for Richard Harris ( first nominated in 1963 for This Sporting Life ) and Joanne Woodward ( first nominated in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve ) . |
| 12 | Pacino may pick a consolation Supporting Oscar for his hunchback in Dick Tracy , but this year could see instead ‘ length of service ’ Oscars for Richard Harris ( first nominated in 1963 for This Sporting Life ) and Joanne Woodward ( first nominated in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve ) . |
| 13 | Contracts were let in 1958 for both barrack building and the modernization of the RAF stations at Eastley and Embakasi . |
| 14 | The contrasting patterns shown in table 6.8 may be interpreted in conjunction with the tendency reported in 6.2.4 for phonological units in low-status speech to cover a wider phonetic range . |
| 15 | Since each is an Sbus , four cards can be added in each for a total of 40 I/O channels in a fully rigged machine . |
| 16 | The camera has come in closer for this next shot . |
| 17 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 18 | Having housed a wartime officers ' mess and a succession of families , the house had undergone a motley array of alterations since it was remodelled in 1800 for a local mill owner . |
| 19 | At the Foxhall Hotel , a single track leaves the Promenade line and runs down the centre of the narrow Princess Street , turning into Blundell Street , Here until 1982 stood the original tram depot , as rebuilt in 1898 for the conversion of the system to overhead line . |
| 20 | The latest soul to hit the big screen is the unfortunate Derek Bentley , the mentally subnormal nineteen-year-old who was hanged in 1952 for the Croydon warehouse murder — a murder committed by ; his companion , sixteen-year-old Christopher Craig , who was too young to swing . |
| 21 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 22 | I have looked in vain for any evidence that the woman concerned was not herself American . ) |
| 23 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 24 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 25 | The time had come at last for Confucius to bow to the sages of the modern world ! |
| 26 | DROPPED by Labour for his extremist views , Nellist , 39 , stands a good chance of embarrassing the party by securing re-election in his own right . |
| 27 | FORMER Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson , blamed by many for causing the housing slump , has been forced to slash the price of his luxury home by more than a quarter . |
| 28 | The Third Republic had survived the Great War of 1914–18 but its institutions were blamed by many for the humiliation of 1940 . |
| 29 | De Niro 's other appointments have included : as designer , a friend of a production aide , whose normal line of work is women 's wear ; as site manager , a former Disney executive ; and as architect ( 20 were interviewed ) , the relatively unknown Lo-yi Chan , whose inexperience was blamed by some for the renovations to the Martinson building going $350,000 over budget . |
| 30 | One such , Mr Goodlad , has said culling should be introduced to curb population growth among grey seals ( blamed by some for falling fish stocks ) . |