Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 2 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 3 | After permission had been obtained for access to medical records , the OPCS provided details of all admissions to this hospital with various liver diseases ( diagnoses listed int Table I ) for the three years from 1 January 1987 ( the most recent dates available ) . |
| 4 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |
| 5 | At the English Reformation Tyndale naïvely hoped that , after provision had been made for the surplus clergy , the revenues misused by the Church would be devoted to relief of the poor , not to the enrichment of Henry VIII 's courtiers . |
| 6 | After evidence had been led for the prosecution counsel for the defendant submitted that there was no case to answer on the theft charges because the manager of the shop had authorised the transactions , so that there had been no appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Act . |
| 7 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 8 | The deal had now been put on ice , though material had been exported for experimental use in the Argonne and Batelle reactors in the US , said Priddle . |