Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun pl] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 2 | Again , Eliot found artistic incitements for doing this . |
| 3 | Lesk [ 1988 ] described dictionary-based techniques for determining the senses of words used in text and choosing the most appropriate one according to the sentential context . |
| 4 | When introduced in the 1840s this created new possibilities for shipping exotic species around the world , protected from changes in the environment . |
| 5 | His study recommended simple procedures for drilling staff to use to avoid four main types of vibration that limit the bit 's drilling capacity : slip stick , whirl , bouncing and whipping . |
| 6 | Framework knitters received comparable wages for turning yarn into stockings : in the 1770s from 6s ( 30p ) a week down to 4s 6d ( 22½p ) for the coarser varieties . |
| 7 | Motoring organisations slammed senseless drivers for travelling too fast . |
| 8 | Lord Tebbit attacked Tory whips for putting too much pressure on backbench dissidents . |
| 9 | Local media quoted observers as saying that the visit opened new prospects for normalizing relations . |
| 10 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 11 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 12 | Houphouët-Boigny blamed foreign quarters for destabilizing African countries by their " policy of low prices " for raw materials . |
| 13 | Jeffery and Sheila Parfitt blamed social services for failing to help when the burden of care overwhelmed them . |
| 14 | POLICE yesterday rapped social workers for allowing baby Harry to be discharged from hospital with a fractured skull into the care of his mother and the man who finally killed him . |
| 15 | These were scarcely more analytic or explanatory in their approach but were interested in different kinds of data , and , as a result , developed different techniques for dealing with the problem of representativeness . |
| 16 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 17 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 18 | Mr Smith blamed local authorities for changing the formulae by which budgets were calculated and blamed the Government for capping council spending and insisting that schools should be funded on the basis of the local average of teachers ' salaries rather than the actual salaries they paid . |
| 19 | Cinewomen in Norwich began their annual women 's film festival : in independent cinemas and community centres , projects like Women 's Media Resource Project established regular slots for exhibiting women 's work in both film and video . |
| 20 | This elaborated temporary measures for implementing the planned sale of state-owned enterprises . |
| 21 | Mahathir denounced industrialized nations for criticizing logging in southern states , when it was they who were mainly responsible for global warming . |
| 22 | Its report , entitled Special Education Needs , contained important recommendations for bringing the education of handicapped pupils into line with that for ordinary children . |
| 23 | The document outlined broad strategies for combating problems such as over-consumption of non-renewable resources ; loss of biodiversity ; air , land and marine pollution ; and toxic wastes . |
| 24 | The document also outlined broad strategies for combating common environmental problems such as the over-consumption of non-renewable resources ; the loss of biodiversity ; pollution of the air , land and seas ; and toxic wastes . |
| 25 | All this gave strong grounds for believing that the body had been put into the sea near the house on stilts about the time of high water on Friday night . |
| 26 | The new law , passed by the National Assembly on Dec. 26 , made Arabic the national language and exacted stiff fines for using anything else in official transactions and in schools . |
| 27 | The German government agreed yesterday to join the United States in dropping aid to the Bosnian Muslims and NATO allies discussed final plans for enforcing a no-fly zone . |
| 28 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 29 | The famous 1982 CPRS paper examined the options with a low future rate of economic growth and made radical proposals for cutting the state provision of welfare . |
| 30 | Louis Farrakhan , a radical American activist , attacked African leaders for living well while their people starved . |