Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But only because of the awful calamity of Hillsborough and only because a man of the intellect and vision of Lord Justice Taylor was asked for his opinion . |
| 2 | Occasionally the Lord Chancellor will publicly reprimand a judge , as happened in 1978 when Mr Justice Melford-Stevenson was rebuked for describing an Act of Parliament as a ‘ buggers ’ charter' . |
| 3 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 4 | Joel Gascoyne was apprenticed for a period of seven years from 21 October 1668 to John Thornton . |
| 5 | the key to the difference … lies in the family — a truth Daniel Patrick Moynihan was pilloried for stating a few years before Martin Luther King 's assassination . |
| 6 | PC Edward Walls was commended for his ‘ professional and caring ’ although unsuccessful efforts to resuscitate an elderly heart attack victim last November at Blackhall . |
| 7 | The Conservative government of Edward Heath was criticised for accepting this position in 1973 , and in 1974–5 the new Labour government renegotiated British membership . |
| 8 | LEADING Champion Hurdle contenders Granville Again and Morley Street are poised for an exciting rematch at Cheltenham on Saturday . |
| 9 | A new flotilla route in the Dodecanese Islands is offered for more experienced sailors . |
| 10 | David Batty is braced for a bruising reunion with his old Leeds team-mate Eric Cantona today . |
| 11 | Lisburn man Bobby Corry was jailed for life in 1986 for what a judge described as the ‘ savage and reckless murder ’ of a caretaker in Belfast 14 years earlier . |
| 12 | RACING : Frankie Dettori was banned for four days due to careless riding on the favourite Karamoja at Kempton yesterday . |
| 13 | RONNIE O'Sullivan was beaten for the first time in 25 snooker matches last night — Dave Finbow thrashed him 5-0 in the Dubai Classic . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the fourteenth century an Office for St Richard Hermit was written for the Priory in the hope of his canonisation . |
| 15 | In 1669 , Richard Baxter was arrested for the ‘ illegal ’ worship meetings held in his home . |
| 16 | Before she died tragically in 1977 , Ree Morton was known for her elaborate decorative tableaux , often involving a kind of stiffened fabric called ‘ celastic ’ . |
| 17 | His interest began after David Berkowitz was arrested for the Son of Sam murders , one of the most notorious murder cases in US criminal history . |
| 18 | However , American Pat Valenzuela is booked for the Kentucky Derby ride . |
| 19 | ‘ Captain Carter , Reichsführer Himmler is noted for many things , but charity and compassion are not among them . ’ |
| 20 | " Besides , Miss Hughes is made for sensual love as surely as the heron is made for catching fish . |
| 21 | The application of Mr. and Mrs. Collins was delayed for 12 months on this score without the Housing Executive giving any idea of the reason for the delay . |
| 22 | After thirty years as an administrator in the National Health Service and an adviser on policing , Miss James was enlisted for service in the corps of commissionaires of British public life . |
| 23 | David Pratley was left for hours without checks on his condition even though the prison knew he was a suicide risk . |
| 24 | Tabs of Fuggles Fissenden was known for his strange custom of always leaving the Robin Hood public house backwards , this was because on a number of occasions having imbibed too freely , he fell forward on leaving , breaking his clay pipe , so for ever afterwards he removed himself backwards concerned not with his own safety but with that of his clay pipe . |
| 25 | Prop Ian Reynolds was dismissed for head butting in the 31–15 second division win at Aberavon . |
| 26 | Activism was obviously important , so Sheila Rowbotham was contacted for help with the ‘ Meet the Fuzz ’ section . |
| 27 | RAF Lyneham is geared for action and has had machinery in place since dealing with the return of the hostages last year … particularly Terry Waite . |
| 28 | What happened over the next few decades is not clear , but it seems likely that the fulling mills were dismantled and by 1801 , Stratford Mills were advertised for sale , solely as a corn mill . |
| 29 | Eva Braun was dressed for action : zipped PVC jackboots and Chanel no. 5 . |
| 30 | This does not exclude negative judgements on Roman individuals who showed themselves inferior to normal standards of prudence or wisdom : even Claudius Marcellus is blamed for his lack of prudence ( 10.32.7–52 ) . |