Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1921 the Huddersfield unemployed sent a deputation to Herbert Chapman asking for admission charges ( raised from 6d to ls in 1919 ) to be waived or lowered for those with a dole card . |
| 2 | This applies particularly to stones designed for young people but because they are still growing and changing themselves , the moral and psychological lessons must not be rigid or overstrained for these young readers . |
| 3 | A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason . |
| 4 | If you have had a licence refused or revoked for medical reasons your application may still be considered . |
| 5 | Most members of the elite accepted the contrast or worked for gradual reform . |
| 6 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 7 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |
| 8 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 9 | As Jim Kantelis , an OUS representative on the team , says : ‘ Members of the group were extremely strong willed and independent types and that made for some very healthy debate . ’ |
| 10 | There is one fundamental difference , however , between the material which is produced within a business and that produced for external consumption . |
| 11 | The allocation runs counter to the recommendations of a report last year that asked for greater spending on universities ( see Nature 356 , 9 : 1992 ) . |
| 12 | This would be so particularly if the employees had terms in their contracts that provided for such extra amounts , or if the employees included directors who were entitled to such extra amounts under their service contracts . |
| 13 | In England , in a paddock used continuously throughout the year by greyhounds , the seasonal pattern of infective larvae on the pasture followed closely that described for gastrointestinal trichostrongyloids in ruminants with a sharp rise in July and a peak in September ; this suggests that development to the L3 is heavily dependent on temperature . |
| 14 | The procedure for payment of labour and material sub-contractors will usually follow that described for labour-only sub-contractors and interim payments will be supported by a certificate issued by the builder 's surveyor . |
| 15 | By the end of 1987 , they were playing live almost every other night , but they were still getting their share of badly organised gigs or ones that flopped for other reason , usually not connected with the band . |
| 16 | Most of the SNC meteorites have sustained shock , but not to any degree approaching that predicted for Martian target rocks . |
| 17 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | She 'd just got a job at Simon Peter 's , a twenty-four-hour supermarket chain that catered for all funeral needs . |
| 19 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
| 20 | The original fade-out provisions that called for progressive expropriation of foreign firms have gone ; and the attempt to create cooperative ‘ regional multi-nationals ’ on the basis of a division of labour and specialisation was abandoned in 1982 . |
| 21 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |
| 22 | More importantly , through good fortune and good management — as they played out their ‘ games against nature ’ : Gould ( 1963 ) — some cultures were able to control their environments sufficiently that their level of living far surpassed that needed for simple subsistence — even though not all survived . |
| 23 | This Act ‘ created a local government system that persisted for 45 years , until reorganisation in 1975 ’ ( Page 1983:43 ) . |
| 24 | During the 20th century , anorexia nervosa was ascribed a psychological cause by other physicians ( eg , Charcot , Dubois , Fenwick , Janet ) but then became confused with pituitary insufficiency in 1914 by Simmonds , leading to a controversy that persisted for 30 years . |
| 25 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 26 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 27 | The sixteenth-century started with a power struggle in Europe between the Holy Roman Empire and France , a battle that continued for many decades , with the conflict chiefly centring around Milan . |
| 28 | Speaking at a meeting attended by some 400 people in the local village hall that continued for two and a half hours local primary teacher Donal O'Connor said children should not be used in future protests . |
| 29 | A program was written that searched for such affixed words and prompted a human with the word and the probable root form which could be selected or rejected . |
| 30 | Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time . |