Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 2 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 3 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 4 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 5 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 6 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 7 | During the heavy defeat in Australia he was criticized for not being able to instil spirit into a losing team , and was fully aware of his shortcomings . |
| 8 | Nonconformists could not win : if they followed normal Victorian uses and imitated the past , whether it was Greek , Gothic , Lombard , Norman or St Paul 's Cathedral , they were and are criticized for not having a new style . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , they had remained loyal to the meetinghouse style they would have still been criticized for not having a style which met the needs of their time . |
| 10 | The government has been criticized for not making enough effort during the period of high copper prices to diversify Zambia 's economic base , and especially to encourage agricultural development . |
| 11 | If the group fails , the leader is criticized for not being strong enough ! |
| 12 | The Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for not dealing with the passing of property or with priority conflicts between the seller/buyer and a third party . |
| 13 | The party was criticized for not fielding more candidates and for not smoothing out policy differences with other opposition parties in order to offer voters a coalition which could be a credible alternative to the LDP government . |
| 14 | An alternative draft platform for the forthcoming congress , drawn up at the Democratic Platform 's founding conference in January and from which it took its name [ see p. 37235 ] , was criticized for not attempting to make " a constructive contribution to the formulation of party strategy " and for concealing designs to turn the CPSU into a " shapeless association with complete freedom for factions and groupings , i.e. practically to dismantle it " . |
| 15 | The resignations occurred amid continuing controversy over the handling of the security services by Richard Sacher , the federal Minister of the Interior [ see p. 37382 ] , who had been criticized for not proceeding rapidly enough with the removal of StB officers from the ministry . |
| 16 | As a large consumer of Middle Eastern oil , Japan had been criticized for not making a fuller contribution to the international effort against Iraq . |
| 17 | The PSD was criticized for not making full use of PS compliance and of its own parliamentary majority to introduce wider social and economic reform . |
| 18 | Governments were criticized for not putting enough pressure to end human rights violations in countries where the asylum seekers originated . |
| 19 | Yeah , but in the beginning I 'd get criticized for not being quick enough in my , |
| 20 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 21 | It is only with such a system that uneconomic jobs or work types can be identified and stopped for either the fee basis to be renegotiated or the amount of work done reassessed . |
| 22 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 23 | The train stopped for about two minutes . |
| 24 | Certainly the criticism Mister C has received for not knowing what he 's talking about , for faking it or just for coming late to the whole shamanic party seems a little sniffy and actually beside the point . |
| 25 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 26 | Now one in seven of all university applicants in the UK select Bristol among their choices , creating a situation in which 26,000 applications are now received for just over 2,000 places . |
| 27 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 28 | As fat women we are punished for not conforming to conventional feminine ideals . |
| 29 | ‘ If it is , he should be punished for not running to greet his father . |
| 30 | Would he be punished for not being sorry ? |