Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 51-country Asian Development Bank 's annual meeting in Vancouver , Canada , on April 24-26 failed to agree terms for a controversial replenishment of its soft loan window , the Asian Development Fund [ see p. 35206 for last replenishment in 1986 ] . |
| 2 | But they were clearly under considerable stress when making their decision , which involved refusing consent for a vital operation for a baby with no other problems than those associated with Down 's Syndrome ; problems which once the operation had been conducted , would not prevent the child from an average life . |
| 3 | Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith sympathised with the general outlook and tried to prepare people for the necessary discussion and negotiations which would have to precede any expression of national opinion and the consequent negotiation with the British Government . |
| 4 | In 1953 , the British National Conference on Social Work warned of the problems of abrupt retirement , while throughout the decade old people 's welfare committees acted to find work for the elderly . |
| 5 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 6 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 7 | When I went to the DHSS I vowed to make time for a serious investigation into company pensions . |
| 8 | Even the propaganda of the London Labour and Socialist movement , said the provincials , served to provide votes for the Liberal Party machine for the simple reason that London Labour had no organisation that could reap the result of its own propaganda . |
| 9 | John Taylor introduced Harriet to leading members of the Unitarian religious movement , and shortly thereafter she began writing articles for the Unitarian magazine , Monthly Repository . |
| 10 | In the 1850s the fossil record began to yield evidence for a new kind of trend within the development of each class . |
| 11 | Councils around the region are set to tighten their purse strings after the Government announced spending levels for the coming year . |
| 12 | The participants agreed to accelerate negotiations for a free trade agreement to be implemented by 1996 at the latest , and concluded an agreement for the continued purchase of Mexican and Venezuelan oil by Central American countries on favourable terms . |
| 13 | He decided to shift responsibility for the Dutch Indies onto other shoulders , judging that anyway it was , in language he was accustomed to , a ‘ can of worms ’ . |
| 14 | Their successors , the Bronze Age miners , regularly rounded off a busy day 's metalworking ( which included making hoops for the new fangled wooden casks and vats ) with stimulating liquors brewed in splendid bronze cauldrons and quaffed from decorated pottery beakers … |
| 15 | Of employed women who needed to make arrangements for a pre-school child , 34 per cent used the child 's grandmother and 9 per cent used another relative . |
| 16 | He will open a new school hall and plant two oaks to replace trees lost to make way for the new development . |
| 17 | In an effort to keep it in Fort Worth the museum agreed to allow time for a public subscription rather than following the normal procedure of consigning it to an auction house . |
| 18 | Every king from James I to James V ( though not Mary ) built ; as with the great guns and the great ships , so they managed to find money for the great buildings . |
| 19 | According to Mrs Sadat , her husband then offered to provide sanctuary for the Iranian Air Force and Navy . |
| 20 | Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed . |
| 21 | A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time . |
| 22 | There is also Midge 's deserting husband who left her , not for another woman , but just left her , and went to keep house for an invalid aunt . |
| 23 | With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units . |
| 24 | With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units . |
| 25 | An extraordinary session of the Diet , convened to provide approval for a supplementary budget which formed the heart of a 10,700,000 million yen ( about US$85,900 million ) economic stimulation package unveiled in August [ see p. 39049 ] , remained stalled throughout November by the effects of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal . |
| 26 | Acting , according to Middle East International of Aug. 30 , " almost like a real parliament " , the Assembly voted to amend legislation for a new sales tax by exempting from it all food and medical products , paper for schools and journals and certain other products . |
| 27 | The Rally for the French Republic ( RPR ) and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) , the two main opposition parties , on Jan. 19 agreed to join forces for the forthcoming regional elections in March , the general election in 1993 , and the presidential elections in 1995 . |
| 28 | The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems . |
| 29 | Part of Booth 's schemes to improve the lot of the disadvantaged in society had included plans for an overseas colony . |
| 30 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |