Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 2 | Also , the transfers to and from Labour were spread right across the political spectrum , demonstrating that people of every persuasion find merit in what the Labour candidates stood for . |
| 3 | Only students of history are conscious of the fact that the Covenanting times lasted for over half a century and that before the end of the period some of the skirmishes were between factions , supposedly on the same side in the conflict . |
| 4 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 5 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 6 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 7 | CHRIS EUBANK kept his WBO super-middleweight title by outpointing New Jersey postman Tony Thornton in Glasgow last night — but Eubank 's biggest cheer from the Scottish fans came for his gimmicky leap into the ring before the fight started . |
| 8 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 9 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 10 | Two social workers asked for this to be done , because they were so concerned about the policy they were supposed to be implementing . |
| 11 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 12 | Or at least its mounted divisions did for , as usual , it had left its slow foot , the majority inevitably , far behind , speed being so important for Berwick . |
| 13 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 14 | I understand why hon. Members paused for thought when they first read the draft immigration rule relating to a person arriving with no papers . |
| 15 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 16 | Suchlike suspicions did not deter prospective travellers from paying the high prices asked for such authentic delicacies ; maybe even encouraged brisker sales . |
| 17 | Today 's attraction-merchants are doing no more to lure 20th-century tourists than their medieval forebears did for pilgrims . |
| 18 | It was increasingly to those churches outside England , to Hughes ' seventy million , especially those in America , that English Nonconformists looked for reinforcements . |
| 19 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 20 | We less poetic mortals sat for a while in the afternoon sunlight and shadow , then we turned down the path again for a pot of tea and a scone for myself and Eddy and a biscuit for Bill before we began the road walk back to the car . |
| 21 | However , what the emperor could not achieve in neutralizing the working-class challenge , the right-wing Social Democrats did for him . |
| 22 | Beneath a giant red star and the name ‘ Tito ’ painted on a hillside , Muslim and Serbian guerrillas jousted for supremacy in the latest phase of the bloody disintegration of the Communist patrician 's Yugoslav federation . |
| 23 | The Croatian youngsters dived for cover when a starting gun was fired during a police dog display . |
| 24 | Few looked upon parties in a favourable light and majorities even of party identifiers were unable to Perceive any important differences between what the Republican and Democratic parties stood for . |
| 25 | The dark eyes flashed for a second , then she saw by my face that it was n't a crack . |
| 26 | The refeeding periods lasted for eight days . |
| 27 | As the last word tripped off Lamont 's mouth the room half emptied as bored businessmen raced for the buffet tables and the cold Chablis . |
| 28 | We may usefully draw an analogy here with the women 's movement in which it soon became apparent that if the real extent and nature of sexual oppression were to be understood , and services appropriate to real needs struggled for , feminist psychologies which recognised the individual consequences of collective oppression , and traced their causes beyond the individual to the mechanisms of that oppression , would have to be developed . |
| 29 | He was the first British businessman to take advantage of air travel , although many of the early passengers flew for business reasons . |
| 30 | In January 1985 all the review teams , the advisers and the civil servants withdrew for a snow-bound week at Wilton Park , a Foreign Office mansion deep in the Sussex countryside . |