Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Its dictator , President Siad Barre , ditched the Russians for the better-heeled Americans . |
| 4 | Cornwall , asked to bat first by Ian Cockbain , laid the foundations for a decent total by reaching 110–2 in the 32nd over . |
| 5 | Although Marx himself did discuss the issue of colonialism in various places , it was twentieth-century Marxists like Lenin , Rosa Luxemburg , Hilferding and Bukharin who laid the foundations for a Marxist theory of imperialism . |
| 6 | The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies . |
| 7 | They helped to bring about a severe crisis of authority at the end of Alexander 's reign , they laid the foundations for the major radical parties of the twentieth century , including the Bolshevik Party , and they provided the country 's leadership in the early Soviet period . |
| 8 | Bell , therefore , not only saved the deaf class in the school from closure , but also introduced the oral method of teaching and laid the foundations for the present day Garvel Centre for the Deaf ( as the unit is called ) . |
| 9 | It was with this in mind that a unanimous Parliament supported not a conspiracy of Tory landowners , but Attlee 's postwar Labour Government in passing the 1947 Agriculture Act , which laid the foundations for the great agricultural revolution of our times . |
| 10 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 11 | Later that year Sir Kit laid the foundations for the eventual takeover , when he sold a 14.9% stake in the Midland to the Hongkong Bank in return for a much-needed £383m injection . |
| 12 | ROBERT BRUCE RONALD ( 1831–1907 ) went to Australia in 1852 as a clerk in a woolbroker 's office and , later , laid the foundations for the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company , still one of the country 's leading financial institutions . |
| 13 | Indeed it was the sheer beauty of some of the finer implements from these remote periods which helped to excite the interest of the collectors who laid the foundations for the scientific study of prehistory . |
| 14 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 15 | Previously , sources said , SunSoft required an up-front payment of $120,000 to qualify for a 55% discount , a practice that worked against small reseller and laid the seeds for a grey market developing . |
| 16 | They became the baddies for a zealous section of the population . |
| 17 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 18 | This applied , I planned the routes for the next weekend . |
| 19 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 20 | He also designed the sets for a recent pantomime in his home town . |
| 21 | He described the results for the 12 months to the end of March as ‘ the best we could have hoped for ’ . |
| 22 | So the song ‘ Sunday Papers ’ has had to go ( 'I re-wrote the lyrics for the last tour - called it ‘ Monday Papers ’ . |
| 23 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 24 | The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final . |
| 25 | It provided no prescriptions for the substantive curriculum , except at the level of general aims , and these only by way of suggestion . |
| 26 | On the other hand , Huxley at first opposed the plans for a new Natural History Museum because of his personal hostility to Owen . |
| 27 | A second antecedent could be found in work by engineers , and R.A. Bagnold published his monumental Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes in 1941 , in which he stipulated the bases for the underlying processes in desert areas . |
| 28 | In 1966 she met Ronnie Leahy , a respected musician who , for many years , played the keyboards for a Glaswegian group called Stone the Crows . |
| 29 | Then , using our equations , we predicted the prices for the first four sales of the year 1991 : Sotheby 's 8 January and 18 February 1991 , Christie 's 9 January and 16 April 1991 . |
| 30 | The icy missiles bombarded the runners for the first two miles , and when the aerial attack subsided Johnson pulled away at the head of the field , and only Steve Webb , of Blaydon Harriers , responded to the quickening pace . |