Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore need to gain insight into what language is and what it can do , insights which bilingual children intuitively possess ’ , and ‘ Whilst we recognise that they [ bilingual pupils ] need to gain access to standard forms of English — used widely as a vehicle for implementing the school curriculum , we recognise the value and importance of their own dialects and languages . |
| 2 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 3 | Inasmuch as the Bretton Woods system contributed both as a framework for the expansion of the other capitalist countries and as a mechanism for granting US exports and capital access as soon as practicable , it can only be counted as a success . |
| 4 | AT TREVOR , I crossed the Dee by Thomas Telford 's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , built nearly 200 years ago to carry barges on the Shropshire Union Canal across the deep valley ; then cycled up past the church on steep Methodist Hill , built surely as a penance for sinning churchgoers . |
| 5 | Mandy seemed momentarily at a loss for words . |
| 6 | ‘ How do you do ? ’ she said shyly , since both women seemed momentarily at a loss for words . |
| 7 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 8 | Since there was a higher population and a greater surplus of output people had a higher disposable income ; this led directly to a desire for more than just food and a demand for material commodities for the household ( pottery , cutlery , more and better clothing in cotton and wool ) . |
| 9 | For example , management training , which figured prominently as a topic for which there is most need of external course provision has been noted as being very suitable for courses run by own local authority central training units : ‘ Training courses designed to teach managerial techniques can be aimed at candidates from all kinds of professions and different departments , and it will be extremely beneficial for library staff to mix with colleagues from other departments and disciplines . ‘ |
| 10 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 11 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 12 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 13 | The essentially complementary nature of contemplative and active life fully expressed in the Incarnation but experienced often as a tension for individuals could be reflected more freely in the whole society of Christians understood as the body of Christ . |
| 14 | I 've been a fan of combining fleece with a windproof layer , ever since I discovered those lightweight waterproof cags worked best under a pullover for cragging . |
| 15 | I worked abroad as a player for five years and watched and learned from various managers . |
| 16 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 17 | In an indication of the Socialist Party 's loss of popularity , the party 's share of the vote fell sharply in a by-election for the National Assembly and in five local council by-elections on Jan. 26 . |
| 18 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 19 | Legend has it that the guy who invented chess did so as a favour for his king . |
| 20 | Other widely reported developments during March , in what appeared increasingly like a battle for political control of the townships , included the reported killing of at least 60 people in Alexandra township , near Johannesburg . |
| 21 | But comprehensive data collection ran ahead of a capacity for meaningful analysis , and prescriptive content was disappointing . |
| 22 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
| 23 | Drunk by the Chinese population of the country , it sales depended largely on a reputation for medicinal properties . |