Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 2 | There is a statutory procedure laid down for the consultation process . |
| 3 | A group of directors and employees got together for a discussion group and the resulting lively debate was recorded on a video currently doing the rounds of BNFL sites . |
| 4 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 5 | The goalkeeper was well beaten , but as the ball cannoned over for a goal kick and the chance went . |
| 6 | Helena Swanwick became a close friend of C. P. Scott [ q.v. ] and his wife Rachel , and over the next eighteen years wrote and reviewed regularly for the Manchester Guardian on domestic and feminist subjects and gardening . |
| 7 | Where the user takes advantage of the voluntary vision screening programme and as a consequence of vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned is recommended to have a full eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , then during this interim period , the user will be permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their own choice . |
| 8 | Where the ophthalmic optician subsequently prescribes special corrective appliances solely to correct vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned , and where normal corrective appliances ( ie those prescribed for any other purposes ) can not be used , during this interim period , a Head of Department will refund such costs up to a maximum of £50 . |
| 9 | When it 's necessary to build deeper than suitable for full block courses , the difference can be made up with bricks , laid normally for a 75mm depth , and on edge to give a 110mm course . |
| 10 | Trade unions were already suffering , and the implementation of the decision to return to the gold standard augured badly for the staple export industries . |
| 11 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 12 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 13 | Ships from Alexandria sailed daily for the Atlantic coast of Europe . |
| 14 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 15 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 16 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 17 | YOUNG Belfast offenders appealed today for a £140,000 Government injection to help them stay straight . |
| 18 | San Jose-based the Complete PC Inc is to be acquired by Boca Research Inc , Boca Raton , Florida : the Complete PC , a privately held company , develops , manufactures and markets facsimile modem and voice messaging products ; terms were not disclosed ; Boca Research recently raised some $13.6m from its initial public offering and designs , manufactures , and markets worldwide board-level enhancement products directed primarily for the MS-DOS micro market . |
| 19 | He was forced to abandon his original plan for an arched bridge of cast iron by the need for ships to be able to pass through the strait , and he opted instead for a suspension bridge 100 feet above water level and with a span of 579 feet . |
| 20 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 21 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 22 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 23 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 24 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 25 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 26 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 27 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 28 | All fired up for a marathon effort |
| 29 | Not being sure if the strait , or inlet for the Roach , was actually navigable through to the Crouch , I went back down the Roach , entered the Crouch again by Wallasea Ness , and turned seaward for the Crouch shore of Winter Marsh . |
| 30 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |