Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour . |
| 2 | As a result its turnover had increased for 14 successive years . |
| 3 | Her campaign has qualified for more than US$1 million in federal matching funds , surpassing Jerry Brown 's . |
| 4 | In that moment , Hirondelle and her crew had disappeared for good . |
| 5 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | Tears are shed as the traditional homes and communities are left — where the peasants and their families had lived for hundreds of years — and they go to feed the machine . |
| 7 | Rain said if Maureen did it suggested a powerful reason for her certainty that her father had died for political reasons . |
| 8 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 9 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 10 | He was , as her mother had said for twenty years , the laziest codder God ever put breath into , but Claire loved him , and he loved her as if she were his own . |
| 11 | He had used the police computer network and discovered his wife had volunteered for nursing duty . |
| 12 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 13 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | He spoke of the affection he and his uncle had had for each other and what a marvellous counsellor he had been . |
| 15 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 16 | Will the Minister recognise that some of the benefits that he announced this afternoon are the result of cross-subsidy from the dirty , sleazy pornographic phone calls that he and his colleagues have encouraged for some time ? |
| 17 | , ( Arthur ) Oswald ( 1868–1939 ) , journalist and heraldist , was born 3 January 1868 in London , where his family had lived for many generations , the only child of Henry Stracey Barron ( 1838–1918 ) , engineer in Constantinople , and his wife Harriet Marshall ( 1836–1918 ) . |
| 18 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |
| 19 | Our mountains have survived for millions of years , bearing witness to a history of violent , volcanic activity , glaciation and erosion , but ironically it 's the invention of the internal combustion engine and lightweight waterproof clothing that has put them under the most severe pressure yet . |
| 20 | That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see . |
| 21 | Again , that is not a haphazard system , but one which our legislation has recognised for many years under successive Governments . |