Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 At many subsequent meetings there are regulations laid down for the conduct of the Pacquet , and a committee appointed to see that they were conformed to .
2 At many subsequent meetings there are regulations laid down for the conduct of the Pacquet , and a committee appointed to see that they were conformed to .
3 You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself .
4 It follows that the conditions laid down for the registration of vessels must not form an obstacle to freedom of establishment within the meaning of articles 52 et seq .
5 The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas .
6 The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas .
7 She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it .
8 The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described .
9 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
10 So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left .
11 Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control .
12 However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term .
13 Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London .
14 He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green .
15 JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks .
16 The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China .
17 He used to come in for a couple of drinks .
18 If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome .
19 Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath .
20 Banners , pamphlets and boxes being carried in for the start of fresher 's fair .
21 ‘ All you have to do is hang in for a couple of days , ’ she told herself .
22 and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days .
23 He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks !
24 But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket .
25 The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria .
26 In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers .
27 Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football .
28 This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction .
29 But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law .
30 ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it .
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