Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason . |
| 2 | If you have had a licence refused or revoked for medical reasons your application may still be considered . |
| 3 | Most members of the elite accepted the contrast or worked for gradual reform . |
| 4 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 5 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |
| 6 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 7 | There is one fundamental difference , however , between the material which is produced within a business and that produced for external consumption . |
| 8 | The allocation runs counter to the recommendations of a report last year that asked for greater spending on universities ( see Nature 356 , 9 : 1992 ) . |
| 9 | In England , in a paddock used continuously throughout the year by greyhounds , the seasonal pattern of infective larvae on the pasture followed closely that described for gastrointestinal trichostrongyloids in ruminants with a sharp rise in July and a peak in September ; this suggests that development to the L3 is heavily dependent on temperature . |
| 10 | The procedure for payment of labour and material sub-contractors will usually follow that described for labour-only sub-contractors and interim payments will be supported by a certificate issued by the builder 's surveyor . |
| 11 | By the end of 1987 , they were playing live almost every other night , but they were still getting their share of badly organised gigs or ones that flopped for other reason , usually not connected with the band . |
| 12 | Most of the SNC meteorites have sustained shock , but not to any degree approaching that predicted for Martian target rocks . |
| 13 | She 'd just got a job at Simon Peter 's , a twenty-four-hour supermarket chain that catered for all funeral needs . |
| 14 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
| 15 | The original fade-out provisions that called for progressive expropriation of foreign firms have gone ; and the attempt to create cooperative ‘ regional multi-nationals ’ on the basis of a division of labour and specialisation was abandoned in 1982 . |
| 16 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |
| 17 | More importantly , through good fortune and good management — as they played out their ‘ games against nature ’ : Gould ( 1963 ) — some cultures were able to control their environments sufficiently that their level of living far surpassed that needed for simple subsistence — even though not all survived . |
| 18 | This Act ‘ created a local government system that persisted for 45 years , until reorganisation in 1975 ’ ( Page 1983:43 ) . |
| 19 | During the 20th century , anorexia nervosa was ascribed a psychological cause by other physicians ( eg , Charcot , Dubois , Fenwick , Janet ) but then became confused with pituitary insufficiency in 1914 by Simmonds , leading to a controversy that persisted for 30 years . |
| 20 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 21 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 22 | The sixteenth-century started with a power struggle in Europe between the Holy Roman Empire and France , a battle that continued for many decades , with the conflict chiefly centring around Milan . |
| 23 | All they had to do was indicate the points in the text at which the language created an effect of surprise ; the task of the stylistician was then to analyze the contrast , between the linguistic structure of the device and that of its immediate context , that accounted for this effect of surprise . |
| 24 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 25 | a partnership that lasted for sixty years . |
| 26 | Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours . |
| 27 | She neither gave him an answer nor waited for more reaction , but turned swiftly up the stairs and through the kitchen and along the corridor where , without knocking , she burst into Jessie 's room . |
| 28 | In regression analyses that controlled for 10 year age group as a categoric variable the slope of the relation between log e albumin excretion rate and height was 0.005 cm ( -0.002 to 0.013 cm ) in the European men and 0.009 cm ( 0 to 0.019 cm ) in the south Asian men . |
| 29 | Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes . |
| 30 | James went to the local police superintendent , one Smith , and asked for 100 police to be billeted on the colliery premises , as , otherwise , the safety men , who were frightened , would not come to work . |