Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 2 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 3 | But Laura herself quietly went in the next day , spent hours cleaning up the mess and advertised for a new manageress . |
| 4 | China has regretted North Korea 's defiance and called for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula . |
| 5 | The judge indicated that he believed that police of all ranks had been involved in a cover-up of the initial investigation of the massacre and called for a public inquiry . |
| 6 | The permanent committee of Zaïre 's bishops had on March 2 criticized the " blocking " of democratisation and called for a national conference . |
| 7 | If the kite turns either way left or right , then increase the pull on the opposite side , right for turning to the right and left for a left turn . |
| 8 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 9 | There was a small band away from the tables , and the singer had started as he had begun his meat and called for a second bottle . |
| 10 | He marched the twins in the direction of the nearest station and prepared for a long , boring wait . |
| 11 | I should have resisted your blandishments last night and opted for a quiet Friday evening at home . ’ |
| 12 | In particular , the Company promised in the advertisement to pay £100 to anyone who contracted influenza after using a carbolic smoke ball as instructed for a specified period . |
| 13 | The Halifax said prices dropped 1.2pc last month and called for an immediate 2pc interest rate cut and ‘ specific ’ Government measures to stimulate the housing market . |
| 14 | The 1990/91 budget proposed by the Labour government on July 24 , 1990 , stressed social spending and provided for a new benefit targeted on low-income families , for a new universal benefit to include unemployment , and for higher spending on education and health . |
| 15 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 16 | Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire . |
| 17 | Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege . |
| 18 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 19 | The only practical problem encountered ( apart from cases where the proffered acknowledgement form was ignored , and the seller returned his own acknowledgement form or called for a special negotiation ) was that some sellers ' administrative systems required the issue of their own acknowledgement form before an order could be logged . |
| 20 | But the National Union of Students rejected the authority 's report and called for an independent inquiry . |
| 21 | Subsequently , the government responded to public pressure and provided for an elected single-purpose authority to take responsibility for the ILEA ( see below ) . |
| 22 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 23 | There is little evidence from controlled trials in this age group from which to assess either the value of treatment with antihypertensive drugs or their cumulative risk when taken for a remaining lifetime of 60 years or more . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Feminists in the 60s and 70s deconstructed out culture to find their way and called for a non-hierarchical theory . |
| 26 | Or , in the case of J.D. Bernal ( The World , the Flesh and the Devil ) and J.B.S. Haldane ( Daedalus or Science and the Future ) quietly buried by the day to day routine of political activism and filed for an undefined future . |
| 27 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 28 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 29 | He had maintained that position when asked for a third time after being put into an ambulance . |
| 30 | Drill in the same way as outlined for a non-differential pronunciation drill . |