Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 2 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 3 | Milton Keynes made two more champions this week , as Britain 's top ice skaters competed for the National Title at the Bladerunner club . |
| 4 | A total of 553 candidates stood for the 120 seats in the Assembly . |
| 5 | Relations deteriorated further in late March as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees headed for the Iranian border . |
| 6 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 7 | Electricity companies sparkled for the first part of the year . |
| 8 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 9 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 10 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 11 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 12 | JTR travelled on to Bute on the Iona and thence through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne where passengers transhipped for the continuing boat journey through the Crinan Canal to the open seas and islands of the West Coast of Argyll . |
| 13 | What landlords needed for the booming export economy was better transport , credit , free labour and even machines . |
| 14 | Councillors stayed for the entire show to make sure nothing untoward occurred , which meant SIMON DUDFIELD had to keep his fly buttoned for once . |
| 15 | When they heard about the accident , the men looked for the brown envelope at once . |
| 16 | It also endorsed the hostility which many of those radicals felt for the orthodox left . |
| 17 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 18 | At the start of NEP many of these papers collapsed for the same reasons that affected others . |
| 19 | On the seventh of September the clouds broke for the first time , the wind subsided , and the sun came out . |
| 20 | Lane 1 of each gel contains DNA only , the remaining lanes contain samples incubated for the following time intervals : 1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,15,20,25,30 , 40,50,60,90,120 min . |
| 21 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |