Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
2 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
3 | In slot-blot experiments with total DNA , the ratios ( signal obtained with mitochondrial probe/signal obtained with nuclear probe ) were calculated for the two strains and compared . |
4 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
5 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
6 | He was obviously destined for the professional ranks and as I watched him I could see why . |
7 | I do n't like the title , it 's probably done for the right reasons but … well … |
8 | I should like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the work on the Iraqi material is being done for the United Nations and the IAEA . |
9 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
10 | that decisions are made for the right reasons and do not run counter to deeply held attitudes or beliefs |
11 | Cover the holes made for the preservative pellets and build up , in layers , the areas that were cut away . |
12 | These were averaged for the six subjects and the SEM was calculated . |
13 | The housekeeping departments has to ensure that all rooms are prepared for the new arrivals and when a room is vacated the chambermaids have to change the linen and clean the room ready for the next letting . |
14 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
15 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
16 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
17 | Nineteen different countries will be visited for the 43 tournaments and the average prize money fund will go up from £461,000 to approximately £500,000 . |
18 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
19 | By and large , the first three factors can be discounted for the inter-war years and it is clear that the most important factor was the decline in birth rate . |
20 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
21 | Individual balance sheets are produced for the main funds but the cash figures are balancing entries which taken together will , when the accounts balance , produce the cash book balance . |
22 | Tylers have never recognized any union and are well known for the low rates and poor conditions that they impose on their workers . |
23 | One DC was proposed for the existing modules and for the containing package . |
24 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |
25 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
26 | Even if a " bill " succeeds at this stage , there is no further time allocated for the remaining stages and so , unless the Government gives up some of its time , the bill will not proceed further . |
27 | This information , based on the official records of Returning Officers , will initially be compiled for the 1981 elections and then expanded to include the results of those contests due in May 1985 . |
28 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
29 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |
30 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |