Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began the final day on 122 for two , needing only 79 more to complete their historic triumph , but the dreams of their players , officials and supporters at Kensington Oval and the millions back home watching live TV coverage in late afternoon disappeared in the space of an hour and 40 minutes as eight wickets tumbled for 26 . |
| 2 | The brown trout season opened on the rivers last Sunday and Thornaby AA enjoyed a tremendous response as 74 anglers competed for the Trout Cup on the Tees between Croft and Hurworth . |
| 3 | As the last word tripped off Lamont 's mouth the room half emptied as bored businessmen raced for the buffet tables and the cold Chablis . |
| 4 | As horrified guests dived for cover , the gang of five fired into the crowd , killing two white couples , before escaping . |
| 5 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 6 | This resulted in downward pressure on wages as many workers competed for scarce jobs . |
| 7 | For our United States businesses the rate of sales growth slowed in the second half of the year and pressure on margins intensified as major retailers battled for increased shares of the limited upsurge in consumer expenditure . |
| 8 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 9 | One frequently-cited piece of evidence is that of desperately low yields for cereal crops ( even as low as one measure reaped for one measure sown — compare modern farmers ' ratios of up to 18:1 ) suggested by a fragment of an inventory of the royal estate of Annappes during Charlemagne 's reign . |
| 10 | Women writers of the period as well as sympathetic men argued for better education as a means of improving the lot of women . |