Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep acting medicines ( Lycopodium , Calc Carb etc. ) can be used several times daily and repeated for months at a time if necessary . |
| 2 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 3 | All the fittings must be waterproof and made for outdoors , and the supply should be connected by a qualified electrician . |
| 4 | It is usually sliced , fried and eaten for breakfast . |
| 5 | Mrs McNee said she had watched her children become disillusioned and despondent and feared for the long-term effects on their emotional as well as physical health . |
| 6 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 7 | A man on his way to Jericho was attacked , robbed and left for dead . |
| 8 | The bridge is Brazilian rosewood , and comes with six pearl-inlaid bridgepins and a straight saddle , made of Corian and shaped for compensation . |
| 9 | Such writing is essentially public and intended for an audience . |
| 10 | She told the audience how she had seen a new state-of-the-art ambulance which was only for use by private patients but staffed and paid for by the NHS . |
| 11 | It would be even better if that model were made explicit and tested for validity against a more complete analysis of the firm 's competitive position — the manager may , after all , be wrong . |
| 12 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 13 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 14 | Manufactured from high-carbon tool steel , hardened and tempered for lasting strength and blade sharpness , the blades are hollow-ground to give an extremely shape cutting edge . |
| 15 | When his brother retired from business , the husband took over the company , changed its name to Eratex Ltd. and arranged for his wife to become secretary and co-director of the company . |
| 16 | Training might be goal-directed , but education must be pure and undertaken for the sake of the ‘ growth ’ of the child . |
| 17 | Like others who visited the embassy that day , they found the hallway full of luggage , packed and labelled for England . |
| 18 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 19 | Four copies of each document should be marked-up and sent for reading ; |
| 20 | ‘ There was no traffic for miles , but he looked right and left for about five minutes and then something did come along and he was there for ages . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Keep weeded and watered for the rest of the summer , then move to their flowering positions in the autumn . |
| 23 | Near by , a policeman , urgently crouched , all cocked and bunched for this urgent encounter or transaction . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The photograph was there , but where now were the people who had posed for it , stiff and unsmiling , in their clothes all washed and ironed for the occasion ? |
| 26 | And a society 's ideology must be constantly reproduced if the society is to survive , just as ( for example ) an industrial society must continually renovate and update its machinery and ensure that the next generation of workers is produced , kept alive and prepared for productive labour . |
| 27 | IRA man Philip Manning ( 22 ) of Springfield Crescent , also Belfast , denied the charge but was found guilty and jailed for 14 years . |
| 28 | Evans was found guilty and hanged for murder in July 1949 , protesting his innocence to the last . |
| 29 | ‘ We hereby give our consent for the purposes of Section 57(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to the issue of the investment advertisement attached hereto , dated and signed for the purpose of identification ’ . |
| 30 | There does seem to be general agreement amongst teachers that the school curriculum should be broad and balanced for all pupils . |