Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 2 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 3 | He has impressed as stand-in for the injured Tommy Wright . |
| 4 | Both Major and Hurd were then immediately nominated as candidates for the second round , while Heseltine was also renominated . |
| 5 | Caught off guard for a few moments , the gap between the two cars widened noticeably , before the cab screeched around a right-hand bend , losing it altogether . |
| 6 | Wilcox looked startled , caught off balance for the first time . |
| 7 | A panel of subscribers on whom we tested a dummy issue was torn between fondness for the old style and revolutionary zeal , the revolutionaries being in a clear majority . |
| 8 | How can the erotic stirring for Aeneas be ‘ new ’ , when it is explicitly saturated with sentiment for the old , the dead , for ‘ Sicheus ’ ? |
| 9 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 10 | The pill for such development is often sweetened with promises for the local people . |
| 11 | Each is adorned with silken cloths and has its tusks shod with iron for the greater efficacy of killing criminals . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Vitold Fokin had come under criticism for the slow pace of economic reforms , but survived on June 3 , by 168 votes to 154 , a motion calling for a vote of no confidence ( brought by the Republican Party and the New Ukraine deputies , consisting of the Democratic Renewal Party , Social Democrats and other groups ) . |
| 13 | However , when we contacted Nikwax it appeared that durability is already being addressed with plans for a beefed-up outer with reinforced areas . |
| 14 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 15 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 16 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 17 | For the period 1 May , 1992 to 31 January , 1993 , pre-tax profits dropped from £881,000 for the previous comparable period to £629,000 . |
| 18 | The man they call Lurch was the villain of the piece after his uncharacteristic boob let in Oldham for an 85th minute equaliser . |
| 19 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 20 | ‘ Bulk ’ causes all data contained in LIFESPAN for the specified type to be transferred ; |
| 21 | Frozen in shock for a few seconds , she recovered her wits sufficiently to let out an outraged scream , and to catapult into a kneeling position , grabbing the bedspread to cover herself . |
| 22 | Programmes are booked in advance for a particular room at a particular time and are then " broadcast " into that room as prearranged . |
| 23 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 24 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 25 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 26 | The London company , which the British Technology Group owns , says the Linear Array Processor can be added to Viking for a further £5000 or so . |
| 27 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 28 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 29 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 30 | Each opens with thanks addressed to Jesus for the particular incident of the Passion under consideration and closes with a prayer which first applies this incident to aspects of the meditator 's own life and then modulates into a set pattern indicated by the Latin directives Pater Noster , Et ne nos , Adoramus , Aue [ Our Father , And [ lead ] us not , we praise , Hail ] . |