Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [pron] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 2 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 3 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 4 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 5 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 6 | He was compensated with a pension secured for him by the new lord treasurer , Sir Thomas Osborne ( later Earl of Danby , q.v . ) . |
| 7 | From the shops it was a short visit to the launderette , where his week 's supply of dirty washing had been cleaned , pressed and packed for him by the friendly woman who supervised the place . |
| 8 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 9 | To symbolise her new life , her new role defined for her by the male rule-makers of society , a girl may even be given a new name on marriage . |
| 10 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 11 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 12 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 13 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 14 | This fact is a trifle obscured for us by the modern doctrine of the holiday . |