Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 2 | Very popular in the USA , this vinegar is produced by the acetification of grape must ( new wine not properly fermented for drinking ) , which is concentrated and then aged in wooden barrels . |
| 3 | THE father of a girl who was raped and beaten on her paper round yesterday pleaded for help in catching her attacker . |
| 4 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |
| 5 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 6 | In the Spring of 1966 , six of the Commissioners , led by Radzinowicz and Wootton resigned , having become persuaded that , with substantial legislation pending , and in the absence of conclusive research to support recommendations likely to last for a lengthy period , the opportunity no longer existed for the Commission to make a comprehensive report capable of setting the direction for a generation . |