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

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1 He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance .
2 Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever .
3 – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere .
4 At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier .
5 During the process of privatisation it will clearly not be a good idea to publish the amount received for each company , as it could well affect prices in subsequent sales .
6 If the conduct or behaviour of any member of your party causes distress or threatens danger or damage we reserve the right immediately to withdraw all their holiday facilities , including the provision of accommodation and flights , with no liability to refund any part of the price received for that person 's holiday .
7 An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software .
8 In the case of the 1,800 which Book Trust received for this year 's Smarties Prize , they found good homes .
9 The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month .
10 FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing .
11 Is the current illness the consequence of side-effects from medication or treatment prescribed for former illnesses ?
12 Further , when acting for the buyer of a leasehold property there will probably be a covenant in the lease to register all transfers , mortgages and other dispositions with the lessor 's solicitors and to pay them a fee prescribed for such registration .
13 The second is that the rules may be those that apply to formal , written language but they may then be prescribed for all circumstances .
14 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 .
15 Subject to a special fee being prescribed for some applications , the plaint fee includes all other interlocutory applications ( see Appendix II to County Court Fees Order 1982 as amended — at back of book ) .
16 Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses .
17 European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme .
18 The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea .
19 If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’
20 Prometheus and Frankenstein are both punished for these deeds but Prometheus does n't die .
21 David is consequently punished for this action .
22 In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years .
23 Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose .
24 On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it .
25 The paper was ‘ embellished with drafts of the building and kilns erected for that purpose ’ , and these were reproduced in the Dictionary .
26 These are calculated from the number of students registered for each module together with its size , single or double , rather than from class hours .
27 The move , by the new coalition of Liberals and Christian Democrats , satisfies the Dutch confederation of industry , which has lobbied for more support for industrial R&D and innovations .
28 The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler .
29 Could not he have arranged for that report to be leaked to the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , because that might have prevented the hon. Gentleman from making the foolish pledge that Labour will abolish the excellent reforms ?
30 Meetings already arranged for this year include ‘ Changes in the wind — the end of the traditional British holiday ? ’ and ‘ The retail and catering consortium ’ .
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