Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 2 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 3 | No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s . |
| 4 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | Prehistorians have rationalised this recently in the absence of documentary evidence by looking for different ‘ activity areas ’ within settlements and such concepts as food processing , craft areas , food storage areas , etc. could usefully be developed for sites in the historical period . |
| 6 | The scale has been further developed for use with the elderly by McNab and Phillip ( 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Firstly , the chart parser was an existing framework , originally developed for use in the syntactic domain , but also used in other areas of the speech chain , e.g. acoustic-phonetic analysis ( Church 1983 ) It was specifically designed for automatically building a graph of possibilities , these possibilities being determined by the component knowledge sources , not by the parser . |
| 8 | For example , the spread ratio may be unity , the ratio of the contract values , the ratio of contract values adjusted for responsiveness to the general level of market prices , or the ratio of contract values weighted by some factor such as p . |
| 9 | However , the regression coefficients relating birth weight and systolic pressure in those children , once adjusted for variation in the standard deviation of systolic pressure at different ages , do not become consistently stronger with age ( figure ) . |
| 10 | Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method . |
| 11 | Scottish solicitors ' accounts in English legal aid cases are not normally taxed by Taxing Masters in England , but under an informal arrangement are referred for scrutiny to the Central Committee Taxation Department . |
| 12 | The patients were consecutively referred for surgery by the same gastroenterologist ( OK ) , thorough investigations before operation objectively confirmed gastro-oesophageal reflux , all operations were performed with standardised technique by one surgeon , and all revisional oesophageal surgery in the region was done at our hospital . |
| 13 | Will the Minister confirm that under the terms of the 1971 Montreal convention , which was signed both by Libya and by Britain , any dispute can be referred for arbitration to the International Court of Justice ? |
| 14 | Alan Carr , Aberconwy 's chief executive , said : ‘ Do n't go back until they have been checked for safety by the public utilities . ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand , foreign languages were clearly expected to be taught for communication in the first place . |
| 16 | Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France . |
| 17 | Such divine imagery was confined to extravagant and luxury items such as ornate scabbards and cameos , which were intended for members of the imperial court , and does not appear on objects of mass circulation such as coins , on which representations of Augustus were always human after 27 BC . |
| 18 | This grant is intended for maintenance during the three terms and the vacations at Christmas and Easter , but also includes some provision for books , travel , clothes and the like . |
| 19 | Items designed for travel use will have a dual-voltage switch and are intended for use with the relevant plug adaptor . |
| 20 | There is music for the vernacular liturgy of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer , and a handful of pieces probably intended for use as the extra-liturgical anthem ; this was composed for the vocal chorus available at the Chapel Royal and the greater corporate churches , and virtually alone among Byrd 's output qualifies as public rather than domestic music . |
| 21 | Located in the heart of the historic County Town of Warwick , this Georgian hotel is ideally situated for visitors to the famous Castle and those seeking to explore England 's Heartland . |
| 22 | Several of these applications , such as nuclear power-plant maintenance , are designated for development in the MITI project . |
| 23 | In retaliation for the economic blockade of Slovenia imposed by Serbia at the beginning of December 1989 [ see p. 37131 ] , the Slovene government on Feb. 22 decided to withhold payment of 15 per cent of the republic 's contribution to the federal budget , representing the amount designated for subsidies to the Serbian economy . |
| 24 | Heavily-backed to follow up in a Listed event at Newmarket last month , King 's Signet was exposed for pace in the closing stages by Stack Rock and Garah . |
| 25 | Viscosity varies greatly with temperature and the table of timings provided is calculated for analysis at the standardized temperature of 20°C . |
| 26 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 27 | … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor . |
| 28 | Here a visitor will find benches purposely placed for enjoyment of the magnificent spectacle . ’ |
| 29 | San Jose , California-based Alliance Semiconductor Corp has bought the Sparc Mbus/Sbus chipset designer Nimbus Technology Inc on undisclosed terms : the Santa Clara , California start-up created a stir last year with its chipset designed for use with the superscalar Sparcs from Texas Instruments Inc and Cypress Semiconductor Corp ( UX No 383 ) — Nimbus received $1.5m funding from Cypress subsidiary Ross Technology Inc . |
| 30 | San Jose , California-based Alliance Semiconductor Corp has bought the Sparc Mbus and Sbus chip set designer Nimbus Technology Inc on undisclosed terms : the Santa Clara , California start-up created a stir last year with its chip set designed for use with the superscalar Sparcs from Texas Instruments Inc and Cypress Semiconductor Corp — Nimbus received $1.5m funding from the Cypress subsidiary Ross Technology Inc . |