Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 2 | This recurred for several nights , and she simply reasoned that whatever it was not a danger to her life . |
| 3 | It was in the 1370s that the balance of the economy was seriously altered ; from 1372 there was a fall in basic food prices but no drop in wages , and this continued for some years , putting pressure on the profit margins which the manorial lords could secure from their estates ( 60 ) . |
| 4 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 5 | This accounted for many derivations that are not simply inflections ( e.g. happy , happiness , happily ) . |
| 6 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 7 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 8 | The candidate and unit enrolment data is cumulative in that , for example , the courses enrolled for in 1991–2 will include the new Batch 2 courses first validated for that year — but will also include candidates enrolling for the second cycle of Batch 1 , the third cycle of Phase 2 pilots , etc . |
| 9 | When development of supporting technology for guidance and control is counted in , these ballistic missile defence programmes accounted for about $2900 billion last year with a little over $500 million budgeted for this year . |
| 10 | The pattern of training for the recently broken five year old should follow the same path as that suggested for any youngster . |