Example sentences of "one [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a firm does provide services to a private customer on written contractual terms ( whether a two-way customer agreement required by the rules or a non-mandatory one used for commercial purposes ) , the agreement must set out in adequate detail the basis on which those services are provided . |
| 2 | He put on his dark glasses as he crossed the other carpark , the one reserved for major executives . |
| 3 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 4 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 5 | All that was important of human knowledge had been handed down — no one knew for certain whence old science had come — and only in interpretation was there ever anything which was novel or innovative . |
| 6 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 7 | No one knew for certain what volume of water was pent up , but the old mine must have been full to the random of the 17th Century Cobblers Level . |
| 8 | Of course , rumours abounded about what went on behind the barriers which prevented the common people from entering the districts where the Communist élite lived , but no one knew for sure . |
| 9 | The result is an absence of diversity — a key requirement for a truly representative press and one suited for political democracy . |