Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 2 | Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton . |
| 3 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |
| 4 | On June 9 , 1988 , a Mecca-based Moslem humanitarian organization , the Rabita al-Alam al-Islami , had signed an agreement with Pakistan to raise funds for the eventual repatriation of the Biharis , estimated to cost dollars 250,000,000 . |
| 5 | It was the destruction of thirty churches and monasteries in Bucharest to make way for the Civic Centre which aroused Western criticism of Ceauşescu 's rule on a grand scale . |
| 6 | The American House of Representatives voted by 261 to171 on 23 July to maintain funding for the National Endowment for the Arts ( NEA ) to its current level of $176 million . |
| 7 | In December 1651 he joined Christopher Feake [ q.v. ] in calling a meeting at Allhallows to rally support for the millenarian cause . |
| 8 | Electricity shares rose by 24 per cent while British Telecom gained 19p for the part-paid shares to finish at 1191/2p . |
| 9 | Given the ( relatively ) small size of the LOB corpus , supplementation with information from MRDs provides advantages for the current system : |
| 10 | Roger paid £110 for the front-page advert for his photographic shop , which should have read : ‘ Stuff the turkey and shoot the kids — with a camera of course . ’ |
| 11 | A woman of the band later recalled how the besieged Nez Perce dug shelter-pits for the helpless ones and rifle-pits for the warriors : |
| 12 | Four years later Alfred Morris became Minister for the Disabled . |
| 13 | Father-of-two Mr Evans Aintree recall man for the past seven years was not at his home in Bryn , near Wigan , yesterday . |
| 14 | A Jockey Club inquiry rejected the claims of 57-year-old Ken Evans Aintree recall man for the past seven years that he waved his red flag to stop riders in the two false starts . |
| 15 | Father-of-two Mr Evans , the Aintree recall man for the past seven years , was not at his home in Bryn , near Wigan , yesterday . |
| 16 | George Graham blamed fatigue for the poor standard of entertainment in what should have been a showpiece occasion . |
| 17 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the BDA provided ammunition for the coming debates by the publication of another well produced report entitled BSL — Brilsin 's Fourth Language — The case for official recognition of British Sign Language . |
| 19 | Staff at Guisborough 's Boots store are taking part in a 100- minute exercise charity ‘ aerobathon ’ at Darlington 's Dolphin Centre next Sunday to raise cash for the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Appeal . |
| 20 | Instead of measuring volatility for a sequence of non-overlapping periods ( days , say ) , as have previous authors , Park and Sears calculated volatility for the remaining period to delivery . |
| 21 | Garland surveyed literature for the running speeds of 107 diverse mammal species and discovered that the maximal speed tends to increase gradually with increasing body mass . |
| 22 | The toss went in Oxford 's favour , Jo Michels taking Middlesex for the tactical advantage of the first bend , since Cambridge were known to have a fast start . |
| 23 | P.S. I noted that BR accepted responsibility for the recent accident in the tunnel . |
| 24 | Dressed like a clergyman all his life , his own chemist , architect , engineer , and manager , Gamble held patents for the improved manufacture of bleaching powder , a process for the concentration of sulphuric acid , and a saltcake furnace . |
| 25 | In its time , Hullavington supplied parachutes for the entire RAF and kept British troops fed in the Gulf War . |
| 26 | For once Stephen and Christina thanked God for the inefficient island infrastructure . |
| 27 | Last June it established a venture with General Motors in the US to build robots for the American market , including GM 's plants . |
| 28 | At Samia Saouma the chilly irony of Glen Baxter makes way for the recent disconcerting images of Pierre and Gilles , on until the end of the month . |
| 29 | In November 1990 , her colleague Katherine Howe nominated Beverley for the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards . |
| 30 | For the first time since he had met him , Blake felt compassion for the old Time Lord . |