Example sentences of "and [vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 2 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 3 | In this way , the dictionary , being a general-purpose source of knowledge designed for use by non-experts , is being used to contribute to the recognition of text that is both highly specific and intended for a specific audience only . |
| 4 | Often written by women and intended for a female readership , the novels are characterized by a blend of sentiment and sensationalism with elements of the fashionable Gothic ; a number of them were translations from the French . |
| 5 | The Orangemen could even talk to those trees ( the ones removed and replanted for the Papal visit in 1982 about which the parks department is still very sensitive and reluctant to comment ) on the basis that plants respond to music . |
| 6 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 7 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 8 | Apparently it is too old-fashioned and cluttered for the great master to have had anything to do with it — despite the fact that Lord Burlington , the aristocratic architect , was convinced of his having designed it . |
| 9 | In later years the main object was to topple the bull from the town bridge whereupon it would be killed and roasted for a huge supper of ‘ bull-beef ’ . |
| 10 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 11 | Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege . |
| 12 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 13 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 14 | That relationship was superb and made for an excellent team effort throughout the year , as was evidenced by the fulsome tributes paid to Ian McNeil at the end of his period in office . |
| 15 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 16 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 17 | Exulting in her escape , she closed the outer door behind her and made for the great outdoors like a child let out of school . |
| 18 | So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went . |
| 19 | She picked up her things again and made for the dim daylight outside , rather relieved it was n't a bright day . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs , a borough council , brought proceedings under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 and applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants from using shop premises of theirs for trade on Sundays in breach of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 The defendants resisted the claim against them on the ground , inter alia , that section 47 was in conflict with article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 21 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 22 | ‘ XYZ ’ is the perfect kiss-off to everyone who raved against Moose in 1991 with such blinkered zeal , to all the people who sneered at shoe-gazing — a ‘ scene ’ defined , uniquely , by those who hated all of the bands they ill-informedly lumped together — for being one-dimensional and destined for a quick death . |
| 23 | The party machines , however , are being oiled and watered for an early poll . |
| 24 | The ratio between the integrated peak areas for each subunit was determined and corrected for the molecular mass of each subunit . |
| 25 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 26 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 27 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 28 | ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time . |
| 29 | The diagrams which follow show the instruments which are selected and used for the desired performance . |
| 30 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |