Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 2 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 3 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 4 | The phone numbers and addressed for the remaining divisions are listed below , should you be interested in other Olympus products . |
| 5 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 6 | Laughing aloud , she took to her heels , and made for the outer doors . |
| 7 | During their student days both Lorraine and Margaret were awarded Heriot-Watt Blues and selected for the Scottish Universities side . |
| 8 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 9 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 10 | During this examination , three to four samples of flat rectal mucosa were taken from an area 10–15 cm from the anal verge and used for the proliferative studies described below . |
| 11 | He looked very serious , and thought for a few seconds . |
| 12 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 13 | ‘ I should have guessed , ’ Werner replied , and reached for the numerical keys . |
| 14 | Mrs McNee said she had watched her children become disillusioned and despondent and feared for the long-term effects on their emotional as well as physical health . |
| 15 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 16 | New job descriptions hasve been written , personnel selected and trained for the new roles . |
| 17 | Patrick awoke briefly during the night and lay awake , confused and troubled for a few moments until he realized where he was . |
| 18 | Not even the raids on the town 's three gay brothels brought forth a whisper of information about Surere 's whereabouts , and after four days of intensive hunting , over ground which included the Valley of the Great Tombs on the west bank of the river , Merymose began to think that perhaps , after all , the escaped political had done as he had told Huy he would , and left for the northern deserts to found his religious community . |
| 19 | If you can resist its obvious appeal , Dent can be quickly entered and left for the further reaches of the valley which , for me , has always held greater interest and excitement . |
| 20 | Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers , generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life , unless they self-destruct en route . |
| 21 | A sleeve as used for the Aramid lines , Spectra and Dyneema would help , but do n't think of using this material for the flying line ! |
| 22 | Furthermore , the fact that constructions containing mutated oligonucleotides I or III failed to stimulate transcription to wild type values , argues in favour of a direct effect of the binding proteins on transcription , in a similar way as observed for the homologous constructions . |
| 23 | Repeat the process as defined for the upper floors , inspecting each room in a convenient order , but with three important additions : inspect for rising damp ; check the security of the windows and doors ; and finally check the meters , valves and fuses etc , associated with the water , gas and electricity supplies . |
| 24 | To sequence the rest of RO , the entire fragment was cloned in M13 and sequenced as described for the RE' subclones . |