Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 2 | Suttons ' ‘ Redmate ’ can either be eaten as a salad onion or left to mature for mild , red bulbs ( below right ) |
| 3 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 4 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 5 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 6 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 7 | Fresh material should be put into water and allowed to drink for several hours as soon after cutting as possible . |
| 8 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 9 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 10 | But I stopped myself , and went to look for another hiding place . |
| 11 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 12 | Dig in they might … but after a worthy battle , the ground finally slipped away beneath them and had to settle for second place . |
| 13 | The CaCl 2 /DNA mis was added dropwise to an equal volume of 0.2µm-filtered 2 HEPES-buffered saline ( 280mM NaCl , 10mM KCl , 1.5mM Na 2 HPO 4 .2H2O , 12mM dextrose , 50mM HEPES , pH adjusted to 7.05 with 0.5N NaOH ) and left to stand for 20 minutes at RT . |
| 14 | They were then washed once in 80% ethanol and once in acetone and left to dry for 1 hour . |
| 15 | This new system took into account the widespread variations in land quality and fertility , and hence output , but failed to allow for scanty harvests as a result of climatic or other factors . |
| 16 | In 1293 he became a regular assize justice but continued to act for private clients in the Common Bench until the court moved to York in 1298 . |
| 17 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 18 | The task was " forced " in that the respondents were not allowed to answer " impossible to say " to the question about the speaker 's race , but had to opt for one of the three possibilities , although they could give this the lowest confidence rating . |
| 19 | Until nine years ago he was heir to one of the biggest private fortunes in America , comfortably in step with the Gettys , Basses and Mellons , but had to ask for enough money to buy a house . |
| 20 | Young Malcolm Smith was provisionally given a place in the final but had to settle for 10th place after some deliberation . |
| 21 | Jerry Peel was pre-event favourite in this over-40s competition , but had to settle for third place behind Peter Black and Dave Barton after failing to read the last move . |