Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 2 | The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age . |
| 3 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 4 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
| 5 | The team as a whole was given the responsibility for the whole task and for assigning individuals to particular jobs . |
| 6 | Although Wright was missed by Gooch , low down at third slip off DeFreitas when 3 , the serious stuff began only when Tufnell was given the ball for the 26th over . |
| 7 | Quayle Munro has recently undertaken the review for the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , on the options for private sector finance with regard to water and sewerage in Scotland . |
| 8 | Of particular interest to this group will be Supplements C , a 60-bed sub-unit for elderly patients , D a 60-bed sub-unit for geriatric psychiatry patients , E a 60-bed subunit for psychiatric patients in district general hospital and F a 48–60-bed sub-unit for mentally handicapped patients ( it is this last supplement which has formed the basis for the so-called " Merchiston Units " ) . |
| 9 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 10 | The East , who have won the title for the past two years , are the defending champions and they select their squad this weekend , as do the South . |
| 11 | The East , who have won the title for the past two years , are the defending champions and they select their squad this weekend , as do the South . |
| 12 | Campion had unhooked the mike for the multi-channel radio from under the dash , but he was n't speaking ; base desk was giving out a priority call and he 'd stopped with the mike on his knee and the coiled flex hanging loosely . |
| 13 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 14 | Opposition politicians , who had blamed the government for the poor organization of the elections , welcomed the decision . |
| 15 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 16 | The waxwork of Von Sydow held what was supposed to be a Bible but Paxton wondered if Ward might have substituted the Grimoire for the Holy Book . |
| 17 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 18 | Shaun 's last years at school had been difficult he 'd even taken a swing at a teacher at one point — and he 'd earned a reputation for the motherless Hammond boys that Wayne had found himself sharing even though he 'd done nothing to earn it . |
| 19 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 20 | Now Potts J. has illuminated the way for the definitive judgment of Phillips J. As they have shown , the plaintiffs claim that each was injured when at birth he or she became a legal person damaged by the prior act of the respective defendants , and that when each such act was done it was reasonably foreseeable that it might result in the plaintiff being born damaged . |
| 21 | He made converts , and prepared the way for the real planning that began with the bombs of 1940–41 ’ ( Wright , 1982 , p. 9 ) . |
| 22 | But just as the invention of print prepared the way for the traditional novel ( Watt 1957:196–200 , Couturier 1991:93–144 ) , so the fictions characters produce in Verbivore are conditioned by the technological advances which have made them possible . |
| 23 | In between performances the crew efficiently prepared the way for the next act . |
| 24 | The USSR is also supplying equipment for thermal electric stations at San Nicolás , Luján de Cuyo and Costanera , and has prepared the design for the huge $4 billion Paraná Medio scheme . |
| 25 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 26 | This chapter has prepared the ground for the next few chapters which deal with the development of the euro.currency markets . |
| 27 | The military withdrawal paved the way for the civilian development of the site , though details of the early occupation in the town centre have proved difficult to define . |
| 28 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , which dealt with the education of the adolescent , paved the way for the school-leaving age to be raised to fifteen and contemplated the possibility of secondary education for all , on the basis of the tripartite system accepted by the 1944 Education Act . |
| 29 | His classification of organic reagents as anionic and cationic paved the way for the electronic theory of organic reactions , but , as the electronic formulations of ( Sir ) C. K. Ingold [ q.v. ] were simpler , these were generally adopted and Lapworth 's pioneering work was largely forgotten until the late 1940s . |
| 30 | In many ways it was the currency reform and the severance of trade with Germany the following year that had paved the way for the military coup in Poland that installed Marshal Piłsudski as head of government in May 1926 . |