Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The unfortunate incident meant Sonya was immediately out of the competition and paved the way for Vina Buller to come from third into first position after Caroline Sharp had also faults on cross country . |
| 32 | With the Mercedes contingent out of the race , it paved the way for Mike Hawthorn ( GB ) and Ivor Bueb ( GB ) to go on and win in their Jaguar . |
| 33 | The gifted 21-year-old midfielder was denied that elusive goal by a brilliant save from County keeper Steve Cherry , but that paved the way for Kevin Sheedy to fire Newcastle into a 47th minute lead . |
| 34 | So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization . |
| 35 | He directed the same charge against Schleiermacher as well , and in this paved the way for Ritschl and Liberal Theology ( Ritschl himself began his career as a New Testament scholar in the Tübingen tradition ) . |
| 36 | No one knew quite why this did not happen , why he remained good but no better than that , nor why he failed the audition for admission to a county youth orchestra . |
| 37 | In a survey two years later , the environmental group Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) identified 150 districts that failed the standard for aluminium . |
| 38 | At least 40 people had been killed in the campaign period in a series of incidents which revealed the potential for conflict in the transition programme . |
| 39 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 40 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 41 | Dean Bexton sold the car for £500 although it was worth £2,000 . |
| 42 | I sold the car for £45 and it ended as a write-off in the middle of a roundabout . |
| 43 | Although denounced by the SDPJ as an entirely cosmetic guarantee , the non-military usage pledge laid the foundation for Komeito 's acceptance of the Gulf package . |
| 44 | In the 1950s Patrick Appleford , Geoffrey Beaumont and the Twentieth Century Church Light Music Group laid the foundation for composers today . |
| 45 | Charleston Farmhouse , former home of the Bloomsbury artists and writers , saw the emergence of new forms of art from the wreckage of Edwardian society , and through Maynard Keynes laid the foundation for arts subsidy today . |
| 46 | The arrival of universal pension provision following the Second World War laid the foundation for age discrimination against all women aged 60 or over and men aged 65 or over . |
| 47 | The ‘ Entebbe Maths ’ in the ‘ sixties and for the ‘ sixties was a success story and one which laid the foundation for interest and expertise in curriculum development not only in Mathematics but in other subjects as well . |
| 48 | Botha laid the blame for South Africa 's defeat on a Northern Transvaal mafia which dominated the tour party . |
| 49 | More recently the land belonged to the Bute family who rebuilt Cardiff castle in the nineteenth century and laid the foundations for Cardiff 's prosperity as a coal port . |
| 50 | Angus Blair laid the foundations for victory against the Welshmen with a 25-11 win over Len Webley , Robert Provan beat Dai Wilkins 25-12 , captain Robert McCulloch counted eight shots over the last six ends for a 22-14 win over John Price , and Alex Marshall edged out Spencer Wilshire 16-11 . |
| 51 | Independent working-class activity in West Ham , most notably through trade unions , cooperation and political representation , coupled with an ineffective Tory/Liberal opposition , laid the foundations for Labour 's accession to power in the immediate postwar years . |
| 52 | Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements . |
| 53 | Ellen Solomon and Walter Bodmer first pointed out that the variation in human gene sequences represented a powerful new mapping tool , which laid the basis for studies that led to the human genome project ( in which the entire genome will be mapped , characterised functionally , and eventually sequenced ) . |
| 54 | A political debacle laid the groundwork for progress . |
| 55 | Siferwas must have completed the decoration of the Lectionary before 1408 , the year of the death of John , fifth Baron Lovell of Titchmarsh , who commissioned the manuscript for Salisbury Cathedral . |
| 56 | TELEVISION cameras turned their ‘ quarterly ’ gaze on Sussex 's Bluebell Railway recently when the operation became the back-drop for Belgium 's most famous moustache twirling detective , Hercule Poirot . |
| 57 | In turn , Amritsar became the depot for piece goods , copper , and brass which were destined for the Central Asian markets . |
| 58 | The assassination by a Korean of the resident general , Itó Hirobumi , during a visit to Manchuria in 1909 , marked the end of all attempts at conciliation and became the excuse for annexation . |
| 59 | Shortly after I became the Member for Worcester , the Queen Mother visited my constituency . |
| 60 | Aden Arabie , almost a " pre-communist " text in terms of Nizan 's own ideological evolution , became the pretext for Sartre 's own " post-communist " radicalisation . |