Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more , 1 became convinced that the priority for the 1990s should be families with children . |
| 2 | The earliest I have found relates to Henry de Lornes , in the year 1203 , when he paid 16s and a palfrey for 1½ yokes of land in Halling and Cuxton and another in 1271 , when Walter , son of John de Boghurst granted land to Thomas Heryng of Halling for which he was to pay a seam of corn and do service to the chief lord . |
| 3 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 4 | It soon became apparent that the future for NME was to model the whole paper in its image ; make it harder , more rock-oriented and move away from the chatty , showbiz legacy . |
| 5 | Certainly , the British survey researchers saw little or no need for theories ; hard facts were what was important and so with the early opinion researchers in the United States . |
| 6 | Wytch Farm proved more than a match for Savills , the property services and estate management consultants to BPX , during a friendly game of cricket in August . |
| 7 | Fired by religious fervour and armed with weapons supplied by the United States and their Muslim neighbour Pakistan , the rebels resisted doggedly and fought a war in which their superior mobility and unconventional guerrilla tactics proved more than a match for the Soviet military machine . |
| 8 | The Duke of Northumberland 's political concerns had little or no significance for contemporary society , a fact acknowledged by Nesta Webster in her conspiracy theory novel , The Secret of the Zodiac . |
| 9 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 10 | Darwin himself had warned that this might be an impossible task , given the enormous gaps in the fossil record , which left little or no evidence for the exact course of many transitions . |
| 11 | It is misleading to write of Aquitaine as though it were one vast feudal jungle where vassals rebelled against their lords , nephews fought against their uncles , and all done with a passionate ferocity which left little or no room for effective ducal government . |
| 12 | Mrs Hughes , who waited more than a century for some of the most exciting times of her life , passed away peacefully in her sleep at the St David 's Nursing Home , Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 13 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |