Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 2 | If the worst effects of LMS are to be avoided and its potential benefits realised for teachers and their pupils then teachers must ensure that the decision-making process in their school operates in such a way as to enable their full participation . |
| 3 | Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred . |
| 4 | The form my mother filled for glasses |
| 5 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 6 | Other extras were the fees received for circumcisions and for officiating at burials and weddings . |
| 7 | Except when they are earned by the professor as the supervisor of graduate students , as an academic adviser under the regulations for Recognized Students , or ( subject to the approval of the faculty board or boards concerned and the General Board , including approval as to the length of time for which the permission shall be given ) in respect of tutorial teaching for up to four hours per week ( exceptionally up to six hours per week ) , any fees received for lectures or instruction given by the professor in the University shall be applied towards meeting the expenses of the department of which he is in charge or , if he is not in charge of the department , shall be paid to the Curators of the University Chest for the credit of the University General Fund . |
| 8 | In addition , five smaller grants were received for studies by individual members of staff , totalling £9,500 . |
| 9 | Finance for books , previously received for students aged 16 to 18 from the local authority , is likely to become a less frequent feature of the scene , and its absence will have a particular impact in those areas that have adopted a system of wholly tertiary colleges . |
| 10 | Just on item eight and item nine , Lord Mayor , Community Health N H S Trust and Health N H S Trust , to report the fact that dispensations from the Department of the Environment have rec been received for Councillors and , enabling them to take part in the debate but er not to vote . |
| 11 | Authorisation received for boilers |
| 12 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 13 | Hand-knitted sweaters are hot fashion items this winter , and can be treasured for years to come . |
| 14 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 15 | Rosanne : or , A Father 's Labour Lost ( 1814 ) , in which a daughter becomes her father 's religious and moral salvation , and Heraline , or Opposite Proceedings ( 1821 ) share many of its features : slightly heavy-handed authorial notes , careful attention to the influences which shape their heroines ' moral and intellectual development , condemnation of various aspects of behaviour prescribed for women , and matter-of-fact presentation of libertinism in high life . |
| 16 | For example lindane , or gamma benzene hexachloride , is an insecticide found in a shampoo called Quellada Application PC — more often prescribed for scabies — and in Lorexane , which , although now withdrawn from the market , may still be held by some chemists . |
| 17 | Repeat prescriptions , allied to the low priority given to older patients , can lead to drugs being prescribed for periods which are longer than those recommended as safe . |
| 18 | ( According to a circular of March 20th , 1931 , stone-breaking , stone-pounding and corn-grinding were no longer among the tasks prescribed for casuals ; none could be imposed without the approval of the Minister . |
| 19 | A smaller part of the total use of peptic ulcer drugs are being prescribed for diseases other than peptic ulcer — for example , oesophagitis and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome . |
| 20 | Valium , therefore , is frequently prescribed for problems such as loneliness and marital discord , the latter interestingly considerably more evident in female than male section referrals in our study . |
| 21 | Contact lenses are less frequently prescribed for children than spectacles because physical growth is still taking place and because they are relatively more expensive . |
| 22 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 23 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 24 | Another 60,000 had been punished for misdeeds but retained their party membership , while a further 120,000 were still under investigation . |
| 25 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 26 | This permits people to be punished for crimes that are assumed to have taken place , and of which the suspect is assumed to be guilty , without any formalities of proof , evidence or charges . |
| 27 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 28 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 29 | In a separate adjudication yesterday , Boots was rebuked for claims made for its Farley 's Junior Milk , a formula it recommends for babies over six months old . |
| 30 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |