Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb pp] for [art] [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 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 .
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 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 .
13 When the plenum opened on March 12 , the MPRP general secretary Jambyn Batmönh announced his resignation and that of the seven-member politburo and called for the complete separation of the party and state , saying that the party would henceforth " prove its leading role in the society not constitutionally but with its deeds for happy future [ sic ] of the Mongolian people " .
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 Nurse Motley said that when it appeared that Kayley was about to suffer another respiratory attack , she had administered oxygen while Allitt had opened the door and called for the cardiac arrest team .
16 Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered .
17 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 .
18 Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went .
22 But the National Union of Students rejected the authority 's report and called for an independent inquiry .
23 Subsequently , the government responded to public pressure and provided for an elected single-purpose authority to take responsibility for the ILEA ( see below ) .
24 In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest .
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 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 .
29 Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend .
30 ( 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 ’ . )
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