Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | So welfare supporters argued for new laws to augment the workings of the market place . |
| 5 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Labour Party favoured a major role for earnings-related state pension provision while the Conservatives wished for broad occupational coverage and a residual second-tier state pension , in which many employed women would have found themselves . |
| 9 | Plans unveiled for on-site screening |
| 10 | For our United States businesses the rate of sales growth slowed in the second half of the year and pressure on margins intensified as major retailers battled for increased shares of the limited upsurge in consumer expenditure . |
| 11 | This resulted in downward pressure on wages as many workers competed for scarce jobs . |
| 12 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |
| 13 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 14 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 15 | And I 've always thought it [ the Report ] did for foreign and defence policy-making and intelligence … what the Crossman and Castle diaries did for economic and domestic policy-making . |
| 16 | There was no fierce detestation of it such as loyalist unionists had for Faulknerite unionists or Sinn Féin republicans for SDLP republicans . |
| 17 | Sixteen teams of nine and 11-year-olds , 20 teams of 12 and 13-year-olds and a dozen teams of 14 and 15-year-olds competed for junior , intermediate and senior section trophies . |
| 18 | If married persons sterilized for non-contraceptive reasons are included , the proportion of the subfecund rises to 25 per cent ( most non-contraceptive sterilizations are for conditions which would themselves cause sterility : McFalls and McFalls 1984 ) . |
| 19 | People asked her , significantly in that suffragette period , if the initials stood for New Women 's Movement . |
| 20 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 21 | For good measure , and to show the regime 's non-Kurdish opponents that they are not trading democracy for autonomy , the Kurds asked for free elections throughout the country . |
| 22 | The Poles replied that the design was based on a painting by the Dutch artist Van Der Block dating from about 1608 , that the original painting hung in the Danzig Main Town Hall in a room which the Nazis used for frequent social and political meetings . |
| 23 | With the introduction of the Regulations in August 1924 the District saw a solution to its perennial financial problems and believed attractive prospects existed for expanding provision in its large geographical area through the three types of courses eligible for grant-aid : One-Year , Terminal and Vacation . |
| 24 | Insofar as operational , organisational and administrative matters affecting safety are concerned , the improvements looked for after TMI relate mainly to the selection of operators and the handling of any emergency . |
| 25 | Whereas the Chinese would take only clear amber and the Dutch had a preference for it , the Russians went for cloudy amber . |
| 26 | STAR STYLES : Girls fell for fashionable Phillip ( above ) yesterday , just as they do when he 's stripped to play Joseph ( left ) . |
| 27 | The schools of the established Church banned the teaching of writing for this kind of reason as much as the Methodists did for sabbatarian ones . |
| 28 | The USRC therefore made only a limited impact ; most of its members sat for industrial seats and its propaganda was concentrated there for their benefit . |
| 29 | Aid officials and provisional government spokespersons appealed for urgent medical and food aid . |
| 30 | Most sites do not produce remains that can be readily understood by casual visitors , and they often consist of little more than holes in the ground showing where posts once formed part of a timber building , pits dug for various purposes , or ditches for drainage , boundaries and defence . |