Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 2 | Ewan 's new company , Accolade Business Systems , of Govan , Glasgow , are among the exemplars of employment practice and yesterday received an award for their efforts in the field of hiring disabled people . |
| 3 | He started to plot lines of ancient sites and quickly got a feel for those which cropped up most frequently . |
| 4 | The late Mrs Wallace , who purchased The Spinnery in 1958 and owned the property for many years , gave many interesting details of the old house and later wrote an article for Cumbria . |
| 5 | The plaintiff paid under protest , and later brought an action for a declaration that the charges were illegal and for recovery of past payments . |
| 6 | They used the concept of place value and also had a symbol for zero . |
| 7 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 8 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 9 | Some respondents answered ‘ no ’ to the first part of this question and then quoted a figure for the second part — making it difficult to discern their real attitude to the issue of capping institutional claims , and complicating the interpretation of the statistics . |
| 10 | Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement . |
| 11 | The turning-point came when King was supported by the long-serving vestry clerk , who gave evidence against Merceron before a House of Commons committee in 1816 , and then instigated a prosecution for the appropriation of £925 of parish funds and partiality in the renewal of liquor licences . |
| 12 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 13 | acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it . |
| 14 | Eliot asserts that it is perfectly possible to claim ‘ that primitive man acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it ’ . |
| 15 | Pons sat down and hastily wrote a manuscript for a ‘ preliminary note ’ entitled ‘ Electrochemically Induced Nuclear Fusion of Deuterium ’ . |
| 16 | Auto business also continued to perform satisfactorily and again produced a profit for the year , despite the heavy cost of Facility business in the final quarter . |
| 17 | It specialises in Secessionist and German Expressionist art but later became a showcase for the work of Grandma Moses . |
| 18 | During the next three years , nearly 10,000 million dollars were made available to Europe in ‘ Marshall Aid ’ , which not only enabled Europe to recover and increase goods and services by twenty-five per cent over that three years , but also ensured a market for American-made goods . |