Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 2 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 3 | Rozario on the near post Chettle also has come forward for this kick and it goes in towards that near post area where Oldfield takes no chances . |
| 4 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 5 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 6 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 7 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 8 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 9 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |
| 10 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 11 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 12 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 13 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 14 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 15 | Friedrich Bremer has waited long for another victim , and is eager to begin . |
| 16 | She has waited patiently for this ending . ’ |
| 17 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 18 | If he was going anywhere I thought he would have come here for Premier League football . |
| 19 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 20 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |
| 21 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 22 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 23 | Further , there is no evidence that at the time the debtor would have qualified financially for legal aid . |
| 24 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 25 | He was supposed to have asked politely for more heat up on their level . |
| 26 | Miss Owada is thought to have held out for one concession : relatively open public relations . |
| 27 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 28 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 29 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 30 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |