Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 2 | In 1978 the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam ) had opted for status as a self-governing commonwealth of the USA , and in 1982 the FSM and the Marshall Islands had signed compacts of free association which provided for internal sovereignty and US economic support in return for continuing US control of their defence and foreign policies . |
| 3 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 4 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 5 | Cakici and Chatterjee ( 1991 ) examined daily closing prices for the S&P500 from 1982 to 1987 , and compared the mispricings calculated using a no-arbitrage condition which allowed for stochastic interest rates and one which did not . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 7 | The Queen for her own part will have to face up to the fact that , however perfect her public role , she has dismally failed in private to give her children the guidance they needed for stable marriages . |
| 8 | COMIC Lenny Henry rivals the grin on the trophy he won for best TV comedy at the Radio Times Comedy and Drama Awards in London yesterday . |
| 9 | He developed a flu-like cold which lasted for several days . |
| 10 | This battle which lasted for forty years ended in the passing of the Medway Conservancy Act of 1881 . |
| 11 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
| 12 | She was last seen alive on Tuesday evening after calling time at the pub she managed for Warrington-based Walker 's Brewery , |
| 13 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 14 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 15 | In an attempt to recover prestige and to circumvent the Chancellor he tried for personal contact with King William , hoping desperately that , as he said , ‘ between sovereigns things can be arranged ’ . |
| 16 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 17 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 18 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 19 | This is the tale of 575237 Bowers R C , an ex-Halton apprentice who served for 38 years with the RAF before retiring as Wing Commander Engineer . |
| 20 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 21 | Another important aim I envisaged for New Millennium when it was incorporated in 1983 was the development of holiday ideas which would try to eliminate damage to the environment associated with mass tourism . |
| 22 | He won 31 caps — a record which stood for 42 years . |
| 23 | Much of the historical evidence presented in this chapter suggests that under the harsh conditions of poverty which prevailed for most people in the early industrial period , family relationships necessarily were highly instrumental , with support being offered only if there was some hope of mutual benefit precisely because anything else would have been an unaffordable luxury . |
| 24 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 25 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 26 | He was Sweeney Todd , the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ; he was Spring-Heel 'd Jack , the Terror of London ; he was Sir Percival Glyde , the Spine-Snapping Baronet ; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor Maria Marten in the Red Barn ; he was Varney the Vampyre , Wagner the Wehr-Wolf , jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde , the Oxton Creeper , the Coughing Horror , the Face at the Window … |
| 27 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 28 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 29 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 30 | His thinking also took account of limited human rationality on the question of responsibility for offences ; unlike Beccaria he allowed for mitigating circumstances such as duress , infancy and insanity to reduce or even remove an individual 's liability to punishment . |