Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] for [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1950s Patrick Appleford , Geoffrey Beaumont and the Twentieth Century Church Light Music Group laid the foundation for composers today . |
| 2 | In 1989 , it became the law for children under 14 to be restrained in the rear seats of cars . |
| 3 | ‘ My co-writer Gerard Brown and I actually got the idea for Juice about ten years ago . |
| 4 | Listen to the Queen recalling the changes which took place in her long reign , the inventions which led the way for others today , and the discoveries that were made … |
| 5 | Project 2000 argued the necessity for change as much in terms of keeping pace with service needs and professional nursing developments as tackling the deficiencies of existing nurse training and the challenges posed to recruitment by demographic trends . |
| 6 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 7 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 8 | Pamphlets written by men who opposed the vote for women also stressed that sexual difference was fundamental to their argument . |
| 9 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 10 | In the first meeting with the Area Board chairmen in February 1952 , the new Conservative Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , stressed the need for economy as forcefully as Gaitskell , and capital allocations were still as carefully scrutinised . |
| 11 | Is it not time that we took the Agenda for Peace seriously and gave the UN the resources it needs to save this and future generations from the scourge of war . |
| 12 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 13 | Crawford did only a dozen spots of four minutes each during late 1964 and early 1965 , but the impact was such that viewers remembered the character for years afterwards . |
| 14 | The alleged vision had spoiled the banquet , depressed the King for weeks afterwards , before his natural good humour and boisterous spirits dismissed it as a phantasm of too much drink . |