Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The suppliers lost count of the ancient oaks , not to mention the chestnut and cherry trees , cut down to provide panelling for the two grand offices reserved for the couple , but also for hundreds of function rooms and apparatchiks ' offices . |
2 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
3 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
4 | GREEN demonstrators wept yesterday as trees were torn down to make way for a giant Tesco 's . |
5 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
6 | The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church . |
7 | The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village . |
8 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
9 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
10 | The cells of our skin are constantly dying and being replaced , the old ones have to be sloughed off to make space for the new . |
11 | Russianization was pointless while they kept the lower orders in their place and went on providing generals for the Russian army . |
12 | Before the Barcelona games Nike executives told the Daily Mirror they had lined up racing certs for a nationwide billboard blitz . |
13 | Cleveland county councillor Mr Keith Legg said that ‘ sensible and prudent budgeting ’ meant the county council had come very close to estimating the actual pay rise when drawing up spending plans for the coming financial year . |
14 | In particular , the technical panels set up to consider workplans for the administrative networks component of telematics are currently in suspension , but the Commission has urged that replies to the questionnaires should still be sent in since these will be worked on and evaluated in the meantime . |
15 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
16 | Slid neatly back to make room for the empty folder are the two full ones I am also working on , labelled in the small neat letters characteristic of this grey pen and these two pink hands . |
17 | In the winter of 1956 , he was further irritated by problems with his teeth : he was about to have X-rays for the three which remained to him . |
18 | It explains how to go about adjusting LIFESPAN for a particular application : for example , allocating the resources and privileges of the LIFESPAN accounts . |
19 | The senior officer , an inspector , realizing that Myeloski was an important personage because Myeloski told him so , immediately set about arranging transport for the two visitors as well as booking accommodation in one of the local hotels . |
20 | Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " . |