Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brownlow came in , took off his gloves and met the Minister for Trade and Industry , the Rt . |
| 2 | More convincing is the argument that Kahn lacked the genius for self-promotion of other great architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson . |
| 3 | Keynes divided the demand for money into three types : ( a ) the transactions demand , which is the demand by firms and households for holdings of money to finance day-to-day transactions ; ( b ) precautionary demand , which arises out of uncertainty and the desire not to be caught short of ready cash ; and ( c ) the speculative demand , which is the demand for money as a financial asset and therefore part of a wealth portfolio . |
| 4 | It lessened the tendency for people to fuck up their own heads and others ' with neural implants , semi-organic picoprocessors , and viral drugs . |
| 5 | This passed the responsibility for state education from the school boards to the county and county borough councils , and devised a formula for the comprehensive financial support of the church schools that preserved a measure of voluntary control . |
| 6 | In 1859 he passed the examination for entry into the Irish constabulary as an officer cadet and went to Dublin to train at the force 's depot in Phoenix Park . |
| 7 | But that teacher also turned out a lot of good scholars — some even passed the examination for grammar school , although not all those who did actually went . |
| 8 | In 1879 he passed the examination for county inspector and was appointed to Donegal . |
| 9 | The Act applied the provisions for elections to the Assembly to the elections to the Constitutional Convention . |
| 10 | Both super-powers shared the instinct for self-preservation and negotiated continuously in search of credible systems of nuclear deterrents . |
| 11 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 12 | From then until 1318 , when King Robert Bruce recovered the town for Scotland , Berwick was occupied territory . |
| 13 | Dunnell was probably associated in business with Smethwick , a glass-grinder ( not to be confused , according to Hooke , with Francis Smethwick , FRS ) , who made the lenses for Dunnell 's instruments . |
| 14 | there 's no life on the bench for Hereford manager Greg Downs … he leads on the field … tells them what to and shows them too … he made the goal for max Nicholson last week … |
| 15 | there 's no life on the bench for Hereford manager Greg Downs … he leads on the field … tells them what to and shows them too … he made the goal for max Nicholson last week … |
| 16 | In the 15th over Stinson made the break-through for Armagh when he bowled Adams to make it 35 for one . |
| 17 | It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley . |
| 18 | It was the same outfit Archer had told Newman that made the bid for Bennington . |
| 19 | He believed that Arnold Bros made the Store for nomes . |
| 20 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 21 | ‘ The idea was developed by four brewers who got together and devised the system for brewing beer in a container ’ says Smillie . |
| 22 | The 1923 Scheme lowered the standards for grant eligibility ; the superficial area of houses qualifying for subsidy was also reduced , resulting in smaller houses , let at lower rents . |
| 23 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act of 1919 paved the way for changes in women 's employment rights , but the weakness of the Women 's Movement in that period meant that the Act remained a dead letter . |
| 24 | The contradiction between the two could be seen in the nationalist movements which paved the way for independence , in which there was a constant tension between the attempt to build a genuine nationalist movement and the tendency for support to be delivered on a tribal basis . |
| 25 | The second was the break with naturalism , led by Max Reinhardt , which paved the way for expressionist theatre . |
| 26 | This paved the way for leadership in an even greater battle — world war . |
| 27 | It was the Nonconformist Beecher connection and the special relationship between American and British reformers which Nonconformists were doing so much to cement that paved the way for Uncle Tom . |
| 28 | If he could hardly be described as a democrat , he certainly helped establish the parliamentary control and party politics which paved the way for democracy . |
| 29 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 30 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |