Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The judge has not asked for the 37year-old Marquess , heir to Blenheim Palace , to attend . |
| 2 | Hirst , who scored in his second appearance on the 1991 tour of Australasia , has not played for the senior side since that Wembley game . |
| 3 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
| 4 | When you realise that 90 are now considered a reasonable number , it is clear that at least one thing has not changed for the better . |
| 5 | Gareth Rees , the gifted Canadian fly-half has already signed for the French club Merignac , a side captained by Philippe Berbizier , the brother of Pierre . |
| 6 | ‘ Boon has always cared for the ordinary man and woman — old ladies who need help in the post office or the bloke in the pub who breaks down and confesses he 's being hounded by loan sharks . |
| 7 | The organic movement has always fought for the continued availability of unpasteurised milk . |
| 8 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 9 | I think the time has now come for the National Heritage Memorial Fund to be split and a separate body established for Scotland . |
| 10 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 11 | Taylor said : ‘ Freidle would n't meet the criteria for a work permit if he has n't played for the full international side of a country that does n't have a high standard of football . |
| 12 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 13 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 14 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 15 | Lyle , who scored a 71 for 147 , has n't qualified for the other two American majors . |
| 16 | When asked how he has chosen between the various versions of the same subject by Titian , Laclotte says that he has simply aimed for the best . |
| 17 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 18 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 19 | It has , overall , captured less big-name , big-salary work than Russell Reynolds , but it has become well known for the efficient and speedy handling of a wide range of assignments within its pioneering structure of speciality divisions . |
| 20 | ‘ Not what you 'd call well placed for the passing trade . ’ |
| 21 | A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , Angus Fletcher joined P&O Properties in 1987 as assistant to the P&O Group Surveyor , having previously worked for the Inland Revenue in the Chief Valuer 's Office . |
| 22 | He will then have hurriedly made for the large sloping putting green , where professional golfers will have been holing putt after putt from 10 feet . |
| 23 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 24 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 25 | Yevgeny Primakov , Mr Gorbachev 's envoy in Gulf matters , had already appealed for the full ground war to be delayed until the Iraqis cough up their answer . |
| 26 | The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum . |
| 27 | The home owner had not waited for the bureaucratic processes to be completed ; she had acted out of the goodness of her heart . |
| 28 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 29 | So if you could precis or select from the text that you 've already prepared for the annual report , something that will go in there that says why your functions are |
| 30 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |