Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 2 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 3 | But most students will spend much of their time working in the college library , study centre or some other room set aside for quiet study ( i.e. not the refectory or student union ) . |
| 4 | Since those Rbs40,000 million roubles represented money exchanged legally for lower denomination notes , the amount of money actually withdrawn from supply was therefore only Rbs8,200 million , less than one-third of the target Rbs26,000 million ( i.e. 20 per cent of the money supply ; US$1.00=Rbs0.5425 as at Feb. 11 , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | The specimens were than analysed using the method described previously for mucosal metabolism . |
| 6 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 7 | Nearby there is an amusement arcade , an attractive boating lake , and a large area set aside for passive recreation which includes a viewing mound providing superb views of the North Wales coastal area . |
| 8 | Emphasising the consequent costs in economic terms , the Turkish government lobbied strongly for financial compensation and for concessions in its relations with Western countries , for example through more preferential access for Turkish textiles . |
| 9 | More importantly , I began to write poetry myself , for myself , poetry which I showed to no one and kept hidden in an exercise book reserved explicitly for that purpose . |
| 10 | It might seem that a simple complement of the analysis offered above for acquired equivalence would supply us with a mechanism for acquired distinctiveness . |
| 11 | The explanation put forward for this relationship is that where the coverage of collective agreements is extensive , as in centralised-bargaining structures , trade union membership is thereby encouraged since the benefits of agreements are seen to accrue to union members on a wide scale . |
| 12 | From the pilot testing , the new system performed well for statistical recording , but the retrieval of information was not considered an improvement on the previous system . |
| 13 | Isabel Lavender had never for one moment doubted that everything would somehow , eventually , go her way , though she could accept the idea of temporary setbacks . |
| 14 | But , take my word for it , the possibility had never for one moment occurred to me . ’ |
| 15 | Many , but sadly not all , camcorders enable you to monitor the sound in the field via an earpiece which is plugged into a socket provided specially for this purpose . |