Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 2 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 3 | Relations deteriorated further in late March as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees headed for the Iranian border . |
| 4 | These statements spoke for the whole Unionist party in their vigorous tone , in the denial that Unionists were responsible for the state of things , and in the laying of blame on the Nationalists . |
| 5 | At the start of NEP many of these papers collapsed for the same reasons that affected others . |
| 6 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 7 | It also endorsed the hostility which many of those radicals felt for the orthodox left . |
| 8 | A total of 553 candidates stood for the 120 seats in the Assembly . |
| 9 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |