Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The man they call Lurch was the villain of the piece after his uncharacteristic boob let in Oldham for an 85th minute equaliser . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 9 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 10 | She had looked at Sylvie for a long time before speaking . |
| 11 | Dropped by England for the recent Tests against Canada and South Africa , Probyn has responded by helping Wasps to the top of the Courage League and impressing colleagues and opponents alike . |
| 12 | American Cook , who was just caught by Faldo for the Open at Muirfield , finished with a bogey to wreck his chances . |
| 13 | The percentages of pupils ' time recommended by Munn for the various subjects are shown in Figure 10.3 . |
| 14 | An intermediate — one of the stages in producing a pharmaceutical product — is being manufactured for Boots for a new heart drug called Manoplax . |
| 15 | This ‘ black-figure ’ method of vase-decoration was to become widely accepted throughout Greece for a long time . |
| 16 | The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces . |
| 17 | In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time . |
| 18 | Applications should be made before June for the new session commencing in October . |
| 19 | A ‘ European ’ car , for instance , would be designed and built in Britain for the local mass market , but also exported as a niche product to Japan and America . |
| 20 | An American-style medical village may be built in Darlington for a foreign healthcare company . |
| 21 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 22 | A report prepared in January for the French prime minister 's office by Jean-Pierre Desgeorges , president of GEC Alsthom NV , says approximately 2.1m tons of electronic and electrical products will enter the waste stream ‘ in the medium term . |
| 23 | Nevertheless his enthusiasm , unbounded energy and genuine passion for technology promises a period of unprecedented activity with new ideas and innovative developments not seen in Australia for a long time . |
| 24 | Minton had returned from Jamaica with several pairs of shoes , made in Manchester for the Jamaican market , and a host of ideas . |
| 25 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 26 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 27 | It was the following year that the ghost was seen at Althorp for the first time . |
| 28 | Revolutionary romanticism is severely censured by Lukacs for the same reason . |
| 29 | A study using engineering estimates of costs was made by Pratten for the Cecchini Report , and this finds evidence of cost advantages from increasing output levels in some industries ( see Table 2.4 ) . |
| 30 | Part of a silver table service made by Lieberkuhn for the first banquet at Sanssouci , held in 1747 to celebrate the opening of the palace has been reassembled , together with portraits of the king and his family , including nineteenth-century scenes such as Menzel 's ‘ Flute concert at Sanssouci ’ . |