Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 2 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 3 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 4 | A date was arranged for the following week for both events and I agreed to go with them . |
| 5 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 6 | The English which is to be formulated as the major instrument for achieving the more general policy goals turns out to consist of systematic inculcation of linguistic practices , firmly aligned to a very specific sense of Englishness . |
| 7 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 8 | This type of triplet repeat was recently recognized as the molecular basis for an unusual mutation mechanism that leads to amplification of the triplets , which can it turn to disease , such as fragile-X-syndrome or myotonic dystrophy ( reviewed in [ 24 ] ) . |
| 9 | Fighting as ‘ Little Chocolate ’ , his campaign in England culminated in his winning the world bantamweight title by stopping Englishman Nunc Wallace in eighteen rounds of a contest at the Pelican Club , London , in 1890 ( though he had informally been recognized as the premier bantamweight for some years before ) . |
| 10 | She had died at Osborne and the royal yacht Alberta , with an escort of eight torpedo-boat destroyers , carried her to the mainland where she was reverently placed aboard the royal train for London . |
| 11 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 12 | Into this seemingly catastrophic situation suddenly rode Michel Rocard , Prime Minister from 1988 to 1991 and the man officially designated as the socialist candidate for the 1995 presidential election . |
| 13 | Into this seemingly catastrophic situation suddenly rode Mr Rocard , prime minister from 1988 to 1991 and the man officially designated as the Socialist candidate for the 1995 presidential election . |
| 14 | Therefore the presence of ‘ severe and enduring mental illness ’ is given as the sole criterion for inclusion . |
| 15 | Although more than half earned up to £24,000 , with a further 17 per cent getting more , low running costs were given as the main reason for their choice . |
| 16 | It indicates that the much tougher EC standards should now be regarded as the minimum target for British beaches [ see ED 59-60 ] . |
| 17 | Ramsey turned to study law , which then was regarded as the best training for a future politician . |
| 18 | In the meanwhile , we may perhaps see here a reflection of a decline of noble and , possibly , of literary influence on the place accorded to the battle in war , in which it was no longer regarded as the great opportunity for individual acts of courage , but more as the culmination of a military process whose aim was the achievement of a particular political goal . |
| 19 | He came to be regarded as the major reason for the government 's post-Falklands electoral strength , its reputation for competence , enterprise , and success . |
| 20 | He said he hoped the prize ‘ will come to be regarded as the supreme accolade for a living British author ’ . |
| 21 | The Centre is regarded as the premier institute for the study of Canada in Britain . |
| 22 | A British international cap has long been regarded as the ultimate achievement for the amateur golfer . |
| 23 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 24 | In the mass media , on foreign visits , and in Parliament , the Prime Minister is regarded as the authoritative spokesman for Cabinet policy . |
| 25 | Except in regions of very low rainfall April should be regarded as the safest month for sowing herbage seeds . |
| 26 | These are ( 1 ) anti-imperialism ( in effect , an anti-US stance ) : increasingly , as Washington insists on defining indigenous anti-US sentiment within the region in terms of ‘ Communist subversion ’ , Marxism comes to be regarded as the natural channel for such feelings ; ( 2 ) an acceptance of the Marxist premise of ‘ the exploitation of man by man ’ ; and ( 3 ) a refusal to accept the existing economic order , or to be bound by conventional economic remedies for Latin America 's development problems ( either of the orthodox ‘ monetarist ’ variety which the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is trying to introduce into most major Latin American countries , or of the moderate reform-and-investment strategies pursued by Christian Democratic groups , for example in Chile from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 27 | Mr Smith , who is generally regarded as the clear favourite for the leadership , suggested that the ‘ misrepresentation ’ of Labour 's tax policy might well have caused some people not to support it . |
| 28 | However , in the past few years , there has been a trend for the BEd degree courses to be regarded as the main vehicle for training primary school teachers , with would-be secondary school teachers undertaking the one-year Post-Graduate Certificate in Education course , which is also offered in a substantial number of public sector colleges . |
| 29 | Desks were regarded as the biggest culprit for damage , followed by doors and their handles . |
| 30 | Heavy industry not toys or low quality textiles , was targeted as the driving force for development , and a vast array of incentives and restraints were applied to ensure that the strategy was implemented . |