Example sentences of "[vb pp] for an " in BNC.

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1 Both ships stopped for an hour while repairs were made to the launch 's engines .
2 Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 .
3 Occasionally a reservation is received for an older work missed ( or turned down ) when originally published .
4 With planning consent now received for an improved access for the physically handicapped and an extension to provide a parish office and toilet for the disabled , tenders will shortly be invited for the building works .
5 comes along , it 's a tremendous support , I 'd love to be a bowler on England 's side cos you get clapped for an whatever happens .
6 ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence .
7 Look at what happened with Jim Harvey he did a lot for the club and Ian Muir was severely punished for an incident aimed at John King .
8 However , with 75 minutes gone , Hearts scored a quite superb ‘ goal ’ which was disallowed for an offence not immediately apparent .
9 Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period .
10 However , as I am conscious of the strong feeling that the hon. Lady has registered on behalf of her constituents , I assure her that before a plant can be registered for an incinerator it must comply with the emissions standards enforced by Her Majesty 's industrial pollution inspectorate .
11 It was he who arranged medical care , arranged the hospital — even arranged for an adoption ; but once I 'd had the baby , and she so soft and little , so lovely , I could n't do it .
12 erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case .
13 On the final evening almost two hundred people gathered for an informal service in which young people 's sergeant major Eva Burrows was one of the leaders .
14 Approximately 800 demonstrators , including many Jewish settlers from the occupied territories , gathered for an anti-government rally in Jerusalem on Aug. 8 .
15 When 20,000 people gathered for an illegal festival at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire last May , they brought misery to thousands living nearby .
16 When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week .
17 When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week .
18 So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust .
19 In 1743 , in consultation with the governor , he decided that an attempt should be made not to fortify the watersheds of all rivers leading to the Arctic — a mammoth task indeed — but to defend all the lands necessary and useful for the Province of Siberia , provided that care was taken not to include territories so important to the natives that a pretext would be given for an uprising .
20 In Ealing , approval was given for an administrative officer ( sum not specified ) to be appointed under MISG ‘ to co-ordinate the multi-agency work required by the care programme approach ’ .
21 The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty .
22 Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure .
23 In the year ending 30 September 1972 planning permissions were given for an estimated 76,000 such dwellings , but only 52,000 were started .
24 Dispensations can be obtained and will usually be given for an acquisition of a company by private contract .
25 Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington .
26 No doubt he could be forgiven for an inadvertent omission , but women more than most know that life , like history , is made up of inadvertencies .
27 Only in exceptional circumstances can the administrative effort and substantial costs be justified for an exercise such as at Church Road and I hope that this is recognised by the Community Council .
28 RTMAS has been developed for an IBM PS2/Model 80 connected via modem to software initiated by direct dial up to a sequence of traffic counters .
29 Using the nCube Parallel Software Environment , applications developed for an eight-processor nCube 2E system will run unchanged on an nCube 2S computer with as many as 8,192 processors , so serious potential users can make an affordable investment in the thing to decide whether they really like it before making a real commitment .
30 Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test .
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