Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 2 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 3 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 4 | Nick Collins was born at Chopwell in County Durham but came south to find coalmining work in the small Kent coalfield and began playing football for the attractively named Canterbury Waverley , and it was from there that the Palace signed him , in spite of opposition from Arsenal , in late August 1934 . |
| 5 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 6 | He was hard pressed during the epidemic , and had obtained permission for the acting medical officer of health for the Borough to man a relief vaccination station at the Town Hall . |
| 7 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 8 | Matthei had welcomed the Rettig human rights report in March and had offered support for the government 's policy of national reconciliation [ see p. 38095 ] . |
| 9 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |