Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protest focused on high rents and called for the resignation of township councillors . |
| 2 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 3 | Although they faithfully echoed the time-honoured myth that the Tsarist government stood above social divisions and cared for the interests of all classes , they firmly grasped that the mainstay of the autocracy was in fact the landed nobility . |
| 4 | During their student days both Lorraine and Margaret were awarded Heriot-Watt Blues and selected for the Scottish Universities side . |
| 5 | In merry companionship both men braved the hardship of the landlord 's sleeping arrangements and settled for the night , chatting idly and humorously across the partition like schoolboys in a dormitory . |
| 6 | He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways . |
| 7 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 8 | The Benghazi force again split into three columns and left for the Jebel at intervals from 4 September . |
| 9 | My description of an amazing 18-light silver chandelier weighing over 2,500 ounces and made for the Duke of Abercorn in 1837 has , instead of a photograph of the Duke 's dining room at Baronscourt , where the chandelier had originally hung , one of the entrance hall . |
| 10 | It also condemned the system of accommodating workers in single-sex hostels and called for the provision of more housing . |
| 11 | During this run they won the South American Championship for the first time in 40 years and qualified for the World Cup . |
| 12 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 13 | The Joint ESRC/SERC Transport Committee ( JTC ) was established in 1978 for an initial period of two years and extended for a further 4 years after a review in 1980 . |
| 14 | Then he grabbed both cases and made for the airline counter to buy a ticket . |
| 15 | This report pointed out that there existed no clear accountability for the expenditure of public money on local services and called for an audit service independent of both central and local government . |