Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 2 | Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides . |
| 3 | Over the weekend of 21/22 September 1985 , for example , 60 protesters were arrested for wire-cutting at Molesworth and a further 55 were arrested or reported for the same action at RAF Sculthorpe . |
| 4 | It prepared me better than anything I 'd read or seen for the crisp exterior and soft centre of the Big Apple . |
| 5 | No replacement has yet been sought ; or found for the vacant post of Chief Executive . |
| 6 | The special link has been successfully granted or removed for the given LIFESPAN user . |
| 7 | ‘ The Poetry of Perestroika ’ is an anthology of poems that were written , or published for the first time , during the period when the bureaucratic grip was gradually loosened . |
| 8 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 9 | The Official Solicitor 's report is particularly relevant because , although made for the limited purpose mentioned above , it is the report of an independent guardian ad litem which makes clear that all the children are opposed to any suggestion that they should return to the foster mother and her ‘ family . ’ |
| 10 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 11 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 12 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 13 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 14 | The Orangemen could even talk to those trees ( the ones removed and replanted for the Papal visit in 1982 about which the parks department is still very sensitive and reluctant to comment ) on the basis that plants respond to music . |
| 15 | Apparently it is too old-fashioned and cluttered for the great master to have had anything to do with it — despite the fact that Lord Burlington , the aristocratic architect , was convinced of his having designed it . |
| 16 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 17 | The phone numbers and addressed for the remaining divisions are listed below , should you be interested in other Olympus products . |
| 18 | In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia . |
| 19 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 20 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 21 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 22 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 23 | The leaders — Castle Falis , Princeful , Kapeno , Rondetto and Rutherfords — swept over Becher 's and made for the twenty-third fence , the smallest on the course and , though taken at a left-hand angle , a simple preliminary to the trappy right-angled bend to the left at the Canal Turn . |
| 24 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 25 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 26 | Exulting in her escape , she closed the outer door behind her and made for the great outdoors like a child let out of school . |
| 27 | Laughing aloud , she took to her heels , and made for the outer doors . |
| 28 | So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went . |
| 29 | She picked up her things again and made for the dim daylight outside , rather relieved it was n't a bright day . |
| 30 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |