Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for " in BNC.

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1 It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions .
2 A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down .
3 That is a document which is effectively given for the protection of the Vendor .
4 The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets .
5 The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of falconry .
6 The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings .
7 The fifth , sixth and seventh words are the most widely favoured for deletion .
8 Resochin was not pursued at that time , but both compounds were duly registered for purposes of patenting .
9 It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) .
10 Any creditor ( other than a secured creditor ) is eligible to be a member of the committee provided that he has lodged a proof of debt and his proof has not been wholly disallowed for voting purposes nor for the purposes of distribution and dividend ( r6.150(2) ) .
11 A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September .
12 Both vehicles are eventually intended for works and storage purposes .
13 One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp .
14 All were prescribed as painkillers , with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients .
15 Supt Peter Durham from Newcastle city centre will address staff on how contingency plans can be properly arranged for Newcastle .
16 Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk .
17 It was a rickety old piece of work ; presumably intended for servants banished from the regular stairs .
18 I enclose the 2 outstanding vehicle utilisation census forms duly completed for the Vauxhall Astra Estate and Leyland DAF Van , both located at Chesser House .
19 Northanger Abbey is only tolerable because it has been modernized ; like Sir John Soane , Jane Austen clearly feels that survivals of medieval ecclesiastical architecture are ‘ little calculated for the common habits of life ’ .
20 Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances .
21 We have successfully pressed for an EC ban on the importation of baby seal products and of furs from those countries which permit leghold traps .
22 Seconded from the Foreign Office as her deputy private secretary , Powell was soon reckoned by his former colleagues to have ‘ gone native ’ , and was widely resented for his continued and easy access to the Prime Minister 's ear , into which he appeared to be whispering something which was definitely not the authorized FO version .
23 As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters .
24 Ironically , the government was widely criticized for making ‘ cuts ’ .
25 The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular .
26 ( Cash more and Troyna , the editors of the volume in which Rex 's paper appeared , were widely criticized for their own collapse into a cultural essentialism which accused ‘ black youth ’ of being ‘ arrogant , rumbustious and contemptuous ’ and having ‘ a certain fascination for violence ’ ( 1982 , pp. 18 , 33 ) . )
27 Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred .
28 The King was also widely criticized for in effect putting his conscience above his role as head of state .
29 Although his regime was credited with having introduced a degree of economic prosperity , it was widely criticized for its disregard for human rights .
30 The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) .
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