Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 4 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Councils around the region are set to tighten their purse strings after the Government announced spending levels for the coming year . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | He will open a new school hall and plant two oaks to replace trees lost to make way for the new development . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | According to Mrs Sadat , her husband then offered to provide sanctuary for the Iranian Air Force and Navy . |
| 13 | Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed . |
| 14 | A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time . |
| 15 | With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units . |
| 16 | With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After Alexander the Great had regained independence for the Ionian cities he initiated the building of a new and large temple , dedicated to Apollo , on the site of the earlier building . |
| 20 | For the first class she had just taken two soft pencils , and she had sketched while the others had mixed watercolours for the still life of a bowl of apples , oranges and pears . |
| 21 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 22 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 23 | The ministers had expressed their concern over the conflict at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in late March [ see p. 38841 ] and a meeting of " experts " from the four Foreign Ministries on March 31 to April 1 had prepared proposals for the Foreign Ministers ' meeting . |
| 24 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 25 | The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules . |
| 26 | The competitors who had entered all three parts of the competition had usually designed all three parts together , and in some cases had shown drawings for the different parts on the same piece of paper . |
| 27 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 28 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 29 | The run hoped to raise £50,000 for the Scottish Cot Death Trust . |
| 30 | Sunderland 's Easter Handicap reaches the quarter final stage on Friday night at a meeting hoped to raise £1,500 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association . |