Example sentences of "that [verb] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 2 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 3 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 6 | Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one . |
| 7 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 8 | The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form . |
| 9 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 10 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | These maps represent something , certainly , but not the ultimate mystery of the first creation that has gone for ever with its scar inside one huge unstable atom . |
| 12 | It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation ; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well . |
| 13 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 14 | One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more . |
| 15 | Mr X is managing director of a limited company that has traded for several years . |
| 16 | He was also one prime source of the notion that has counted for so much among those with misgivings about democracy ever since : that of the tyranny of the majority . |
| 17 | Our society too still has recognized ways of marking the change in status that has occurred for some people . |
| 18 | Because the RAWP formula is only used to determine shares of the nationally allocated budget for the NHS , it has not suffered from the same instability of allocations for individual Regional Health Authorities that has occurred for Local Authorities . |
| 19 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 20 | Fraser 's relief at being able to resume a career that looked destined for a premature encounter with the scrapheap is manifest . |
| 21 | The ‘ Fouchet plan ’ that ensued called for a summit every four months ; for foreign , defence and education ministers to meet regularly ; and for a special secretariat . |
| 22 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 23 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 24 | The chill that had gone for these brief seconds settled again . |
| 25 | That was welcomed by the organisations that had campaigned for non-payment . |
| 26 | it was agencies like Christian Aid that had lobbied for the inclusion of Development Education in the National Curriculum . |
| 27 | It was then , after a storm that had blown for seven days at speeds exceeding seventy knots , that the Ramapo encountered the biggest wave ever reported by a ship at sea . |
| 28 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 29 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 30 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |