Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the second day rehearsals the producer has written or arranged for the script and the appropriate announcer for this particular programme . |
| 2 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 3 | using a vehicle constructed or adapted for the delivery or collection of goods or mail to consumers or addressees , as the case may be , whilst engaged in making local rounds of deliveries or collections ; |
| 4 | If the pool is to be made with a liner there is no difficulty , for all that need be done , is order the liner larger than needed for the pool and incorporate it at the edge as if it were a spreading shallow pool about 30 cm ( 1 ft ) deep ( Fig 14 ) . |
| 5 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 6 | He had looked at his wife 's unguarded face and forgotten for a moment that life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall , your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand . |
| 7 | ‘ Secondly , he had a passion for Arthurian legend and lore and searched for the Grail and Excalibur . |
| 8 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 9 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
| 10 | As they approached from the South , the pilots watched the flyingboat go down and land at Kalafrana , but at that moment Hancock saw two Bf109Es approaching , and thought for a moment that they were about to attack the Hurricanes . |
| 11 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 12 | She went her own way , made her own successes and failures , and cared for no opinion but her own , apart from that of people she knew to be her intellectual equals or superiors . |
| 13 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 14 | If your father 'e 'ad listened to the nurse and called for the doctor and not for the priest — puh ! ’ |
| 15 | The participants reaffirmed previous commitments to a regional peace process , and called for the disarmament and demobilization of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas in El Salvador under UN supervision . |
| 16 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 17 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 18 | The mangolds are piled in small ‘ tumps ’ , covered by their leaves and left for a week or ten days to sweat before they are carted . |
| 19 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |