Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those banks that chose to ditch their exposures to Mexico and Argentina mostly received kudos for doing so . |
| 2 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 3 | This approach effectively placed services for the black communities on the margin of mainstream service delivery and turned collective issues concerned with race into individual case work ( Ben-Tovim et al . |
| 4 | Many leading designers have since designed fittings for the 2D . |
| 5 | I find it an insult to my bottom that I was forced to sit on it while playing this badly designed excuse for a game . |
| 6 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 7 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 8 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol . |
| 10 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 11 | Better developed services for people from minority ethnic groups . |
| 12 | Figures released on Feb. 13 showed that the seasonally adjusted surplus for January 1992 had quadrupled since January 1991 to $3,840 million , and that exports had risen by 9.7 per cent against a 3.8 per cent fall in imports . |
| 13 | Great Britain international Paul Cuskin makes his long awaited debut for his new club , Sunderland Harriers , in the Washington six mile road race tomorrow ( 11am ) . |
| 14 | On the eve of the Edinburgh derby , the Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer has rejected a long awaited bid for his seventy five percent stake in the club . |
| 15 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 16 | Catherine Merriman has rightly won laurels for this bitterly perceptive first novel of sex , friendship and power games . |
| 17 | Splitting frequencies — transmitting different programmes on FM and AM — could effectively double listening hours and provides two highly targeted audiences for advertising in a catchment area . |
| 18 | Unsliced wholemeal bread which has not been expensively purified exchanges for more than its sliced white imitation . |
| 19 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 20 | It ca n't name them , recognise them , match them with stored categories , or produce ready made symbols for them . |
| 21 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
| 22 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 23 | Since the Prime Minister acknowledges convergence to be a matter of considerable importance in the development of the European Community , why is it , now that the Engineering Employers Federation , the Confederation of British Industry and his noble Friends in the House of Lords have all made cause for new investment incentives for British industry , that he and the remainder of the Government refuse to take such initiatives in order to support this very best way of securing recovery ? |
| 24 | These subjects had all undergone colonoscopy for diagnostic purposes . |
| 25 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 26 | I am grateful for my right hon. Friend 's statement because it demonstrates the Government 's commitment to a better equipped fleet for the future , even though the fleet manpower is contracting , and because jobs will be provided in the Portsmouth travel-to-work area . |
| 27 | Pavilion has hitherto used Bloomsbury for sales representation and DMS-Media Services for distribution . |
| 28 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 29 | A range of specialist libraries is available with hundreds of ready drawn objects for engineering , architecture , electronics etc . |
| 30 | The building not only accommodated schools for boys and girls , but also an art school and a soup kitchen ( later converted into a school-room ) . |