Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 2 | Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park . |
| 3 | — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals . |
| 4 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
| 5 | The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism . |
| 6 | Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves . |
| 7 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 8 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 9 | Once the Iraqis had pulled out , Kuwaiti vigilantes began combing the city for any Iraqi soldiers still hiding in the ruins and for anyone known or thought to have collaborated with the enemy , with Palestinians coming in for particular attention . |
| 10 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |
| 11 | The Ulster Unionists came in for particular criticism , being accused of sacrificing the province 's interests in Europe for the prospect of holding the balance of power at Westminster . |
| 12 | He continued with his tour of inspection , in which every knot , cleat and screw came in for daily scrutiny . |
| 13 | In any event many contracts for the provision of the service come up for regular renewal , giving you the chance to tender when they do . |
| 14 | Bob Dylan comes out for ultra-right Pat Buchanan |
| 15 | ‘ The idea is that people come in for different services according to local need . |
| 16 | All the leaders came in for new rubber between laps 24 and 31 , when Patrese pitted . |
| 17 | On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views . |
| 18 | Samuel Whitbread came in for special praise ; he was ‘ essentially useful to all with whom he is in any way connected , resolute and firm … of energetic character … ’ . |
| 19 | The List came in for copious criticism and there were a number of insinuations that the List — which had first appeared on a piece of lavender-coloured notepaper — was largely the work of Lady Falkender . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister came in for strong criticism from opposition leaders but insisted only single party government by Fianna Fail could work for Ireland . |
| 21 | The disloyal mutterings about his leadership will grow , as will the possibility of a token candidate standing against him when his party position comes up for formal renewal in November . |
| 22 | The Liverpool fences came in for considerable criticism over their stiffness — unlike the Grand National ones from trainers , with several vowing never to return until they were modified . |
| 23 | The decision was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on 20 November and the Baltic republics came in for severe criticism from other delegates at the Supreme Soviet session on 1 December which passed the constitutional amendments into law . |
| 24 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |