Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a distinction between an article created as a one-off work of art and something made as a practical , utilitarian object and perhaps destined for a production line . |
| 2 | They are complicated and obviously designed for a purpose , yet they are not alive , and they are made of metal and plastic rather than of flesh and blood . |
| 3 | When recession struck the oil-pumping south-west in the 1980s , thrifts in Texas and elsewhere pleaded for a relaxation of capital standards to help them grow out of trouble . |
| 4 | AI has called for an independent inquiry into the killings and repeatedly called for a curb on the use of firearms by the security forces . |
| 5 | From there he had got into Trinity College , and now hoped for a career in the Civil Service . |
| 6 | Then they started signing autographs and even posed for a photograph with pub regular Frank Gait . |
| 7 | But look ! here come more crowds , pacing straight for the water , and seemingly bound for a dive . |
| 8 | But against their gross revenues and then standardized for a person earning $15,000 per annum this represented only $96 . |
| 9 | After graduation he held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI ) , Newcastle upon Tyne , and then worked for a year in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before becoming house physician at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London ( 1939 ) . |
| 10 | After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall . |
| 11 | A minority rejected any reduction whatsoever in the dole , and instead pleaded for a tariff revenue . |