Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs asked for early warning |
| 2 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 3 | The historians of a general history , on the other hand , reject interpretation as such in favour of making the evidence of documents intelligible by posing questions to them , constituting through such questions what counts as the series of historical events , its elements , its limits , and its relation to other series , or what rules operated for particular discursive practices . |
| 4 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 5 | Marie sought for comforting words to say : ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 6 | So welfare supporters argued for new laws to augment the workings of the market place . |
| 7 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 8 | David trained for Christian service at the Scottish Baptist College and at the Glasgow Bible College . |
| 9 | Instead , Lang opted for maximum damage . |
| 10 | During a visit to the Soviet Union on July 19-20 by EC Commission president Jacques Delors , Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev appealed for broad foreign economic co-operation which would allow the Soviet Union to adapt to a new economic system " faster and more resolutely " . |
| 11 | Walker named for Irish hurdle |
| 12 | In June 1971 Brezhnev called for mutual naval withdrawals by the Great Powers and he mentioned the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean specifically as regions of interest . |
| 13 | Holgate called for new research into the medical effects of air pollution . |
| 14 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
| 15 | This is that area of physical life which is associated with sickness and health ; an area wherein the interplay between the subconscious healing operations of the bodily functions , on the one hand , and the power of the human mind or will to help those functions on the other , would offer immense possibilities for medical practice if the practitioner knew for sure that in the mind of the patient there was the certain knowledge that successful self-help generated from faith in a fully believed-in ‘ god ’ could be achieved . |
| 16 | Valerie listened for suspicious sounds on the tape , and despised herself for so doing . |
| 17 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 18 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 19 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 20 | Manley stood for social justice despite the failure of his earlier administration in the 1970s which was derailed by powerful domestic and US opposition . |
| 21 | The enemy stood for different things and must be defeated . |
| 22 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |
| 23 | Gudok pointed out that such an exploit could not be repeated all over Russia , so staff on individual railway lines would have to keep their eyes skinned for military or criminal activity . |
| 24 | In his acceptance speech to the Assembly on Oct. 20 Berri appealed for national reconciliation . |
| 25 | Mueller opted for splendid isolation at Breibergstr. 1 , largely because of the unusual character of the space : a sweeping , semi-circular wall of windows at street-level and a downstairs workshop for art restoration , which is Mueller 's first career . |
| 26 | But everything went smoothly , and afterwards Mr Maginnis appealed for other volunteers to lose their locks ‘ in aid of a very worthy cause ’ . |
| 27 | A paper which I and colleagues in Grampian prepared for Scottish General Medical Services Committee posed the questions does this present an opportunity for general practice to have greater influence in the provision of health care for our patients ? does it put general practice in the driving seat in helping to determine the range and quality of health service provision ? or might it constitute an intolerable administrative burden on the constrained resources of an increasingly cash limited primary care service ? |
| 28 | More than a century ago J. S. Mill argued for universal education on moral grounds , holding that it would manifestly increase the general balance of pleasure over pain , happiness over unhappiness . |
| 29 | Ardiles moved for 20-year-old Donovan after watching him star for Huddersfield during their Coca-Cola Cup clash with Blackburn Rovers . |
| 30 | Complaining that the grass-roots party cadres had been excluded from decision-making , the Peking Daily called for new emphasis on the party 's role in economic as well as political matters : ‘ If the party only controls the party then it would no longer be a political class party but an amateur group for the masses , or a kind of club . ’ |