Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pacino may pick a consolation Supporting Oscar for his hunchback in Dick Tracy , but this year could see instead ‘ length of service ’ Oscars for Richard Harris ( first nominated in 1963 for This Sporting Life ) and Joanne Woodward ( first nominated in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve ) . |
| 2 | Having housed a wartime officers ' mess and a succession of families , the house had undergone a motley array of alterations since it was remodelled in 1800 for a local mill owner . |
| 3 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 4 | … a person who has been fortunate to have been connected with Guiding for the past 18 years . |
| 5 | I have searched in vain for a weak performance in these ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ sets . |
| 6 | The Oxford Messiah is a special version of Handel 's original work and was written in 1749 for a one-off performance at the the Sheldonian . |
| 7 | The VAT row gathered pace when the Treasury , after a series of Commons exchanges , confirmed that more than five million pensioners and others on low income will not be compensated in full for the planned 17.5 per cent rise in domestic fuel bills in 1995 . |
| 8 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 9 | The railway works at Crewe were built in 1843 for the Grand Junction Railway , which became part of the London and North Western Railway three years later . |
| 10 | Goodridge 's best-known work is the Lansdown tower on the edge of the city , built in 1824–7 for the celebrated William Beckford [ q.v. ] , who had settled in Bath in 1823 ; and this and his own residence , Montebello ( later Bathwick Grange ) on Bathwick Hill ( 1828–30 ) , are compositions of great originality , combining a Picturesque irregularity of form with an eclectic mixture of Greek and Italianate detail . |
| 11 | A second station , built in 1855 for the long defunct Stamford and Essendine Railway , was even more elaborately Tudor and indeed much closer to Burghley in its detailing . |
| 12 | ( Silcott remained in prison , to complete a separate life sentence imposed in 1986 for an unrelated murder committed in 1984 . ) |
| 13 | If the Government approves the company 's bid , an application will be made in 1991 for a parliamentary bill . |
| 14 | The Morse function yields vibrational energy levels given by Eqn ( 5.7 ) , and these have the advantage that they are closely related to those for the simple harmonic case [ Eqn ( 5.4 ) ] |
| 15 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 16 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
| 17 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 18 | The winning figures are shown in bold for a five-seat district ( the seat-number is indicated by a superscript figure ) , plus five more in italics for a ten-seat one : |
| 19 | Will he confirm that the inquiry will be wide ranging and will pay close attention not only to the environmental impact of the proposed lines but to whether they are needed at all for the national grid to meet its licence standards ? |
| 20 | The rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest slowed during 1991 for the third year running , according to satellite evidence . |
| 21 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 22 | In the case of the Hannibalic War as many as fifty-four hoards have been found , compared with eighteen for the next whole half-century ; in the case of the Civil War there are ninety-eight , compared with twenty-four for the period 1625–41 and nine for 1649–60 . |
| 23 | On April 7 the 32-strong UK Conservative group in the EP joined the Christian Democratic European Popular Party ( EPP ) group , bringing its numbers to 162 as compared with 180 for the largest group , the Socialists.The Conservatives had asked to join the EPP group after the 1989 European elections but protracted negotiations had resulted from Belgian , Italian and Netherlands Christian Democrats scepticism about the Conservative commitment to Europe . |
| 24 | The improvement in the crystalline organization is obvious from examination of the resulting fusion curves in figure 11.2 , where the variation of specific volume with temperature for this sample is compared with that for a branched polyethylene of low crystallinity . |
| 25 | Euro Disney at present has some 36 rides and attractions , compared with 45 for the Magic Kingdom in Florida and 53 at Disneyland in California . |
| 26 | Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section . |
| 27 | In the May 1990 congressional elections the ruling PRSC retained control of the Senate , winning 16 seats , compared with 12 for the Dominican Liberation Party ( Partido de la Liberación Dominicana — PLD ) and two for the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( Partido Revolucionario Dominicano — PRD ) . |
| 28 | The above results of the General Accident Group for the six months ended 30th June 1993 , estimated and unaudited , are compared with those for the similar period in 1992 , which are restated at 31st December 1992 rates of exchange . |
| 29 | The above results of the General Accident Group for the three months ended 31st March 1993 , estimated and unaudited , are compared with those for the similar period in 1992 , which are restated at 31st December 1992 rates of exchange . |
| 30 | The price-earnings ratio for larger hardware companies was 19.7 compared with 16.5 for the smaller firms , with total market capitalisation to turnover ratio almost even at 0.73 against 0.78 . |