Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 2 | Additions were made at regular intervals and there was a pleasing rule that , even if a Sunday School scholar was unable to read , a book might nevertheless be lent out for the benefit of the family . |
| 3 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 4 | This could also be carried out for the polymer , but as it makes no difference which one is taken ( both having started from ΔG M ) , equation ( 8.33 ) is more convenient to use . |
| 5 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 6 | To prevent hens laying outdoors and roosting in the trees , the report suggests that the birds be kept in their housing until mid-morning , and be presented with a main feed in-house in the evening before being shut in for the night . |
| 7 | A 100MHz HyperSparc is now being talked up for the end of next year . |
| 8 | Here are set out for the benefit of a person intending to become a candidate a few of the many matters which must be complied with in order that the candidature shall be declared valid by the returning officer . |
| 9 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 10 | ‘ No detailed programme has yet been drawn up for the production of the District Wide Plan . |
| 11 | I landed in a heap of cardboard boxes , shredded paper and polystyrene which had evidently been laid out for the purpose and prepared to come up fighting . |