Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 2 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 3 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 4 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 5 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 6 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 7 | The Knesset approved legislation on March 18 which provided for the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |
| 9 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 10 | The more the UK Vehicle Division restricted output , the more sure it headed for the final chop . ’ |
| 11 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 12 | In 1913 he tied for the Open , losing a celebrated play-off to the young local amateur Francis Ouimet . |
| 13 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 14 | Syria and the International Atomic Energy Association ( IAEA ) signed accords in Vienna , Austria , on March 25 which allowed for the future inspection of all nuclear sites in Syria [ see p. 38788 for visit by IAEA officials to Syria in February ] . |
| 15 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 16 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 17 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
| 18 | Under the old regional arrangements , the entrepreneurial independent tour organisers had been able to profit handsomely ; especially those who catered for the insatiable demand by railway enthusiasts to travel ‘ new ’ lines behind favourite or unusual diesel types . |
| 19 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 20 | Claiming that the allied forces had a " game plan " which was being followed , he said that he sympathized with the motives of those who called for an indefinite air campaign , but that any decision on the launching of a ground offensive would be based on military advice ; there would be no " delay for the sake of delay , hoping that it would save lives " . |
| 21 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 22 | Eighty lots sold for a respectable total of £4.19 million ( $6.29 million ) , with only nine lots failing to find buyers . |
| 23 | A deanship may be a permanent appointment , or a temporary one held for a limited term by senior academic members of the faculty . |
| 24 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 25 | In its report of that name published in November 1987 it called for a full national strategy in cooperation with Eurotunnel , British Rail and regional interests to ensure that the potential benefits of the Tunnel are maximised ; the support of necessary infrastructure projects which do not meet current criteria for approval ; and a full technical study of the feasibility of a high speed rail link between Manchester and Continental Europe . |
| 26 | In 1987 he argued for a beefed-up Neddy with the council meetings chaired by the industry secretary rather than by the chancellor . |
| 27 | Far from being ‘ immoral ’ or promiscuous , there is plentiful evidence that in fact the working class , partly inheriting structures from their rural predecessors , had a very clear set of ethics of their own which survived for a considerable time . |
| 28 | In December 1937 he applied for a short-service commission in the RAF and to his evident amazement was accepted and sent for elementary flying training in 90 m.p.h . |
| 29 | It is not true I married for a red corduroy jacket belonging to my wife 's father ; but there is no denying he did pass it on to me , as a sort of dowry I believe . |