Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 2 | Other ingredients can be added or substituted for different applications . |
| 3 | Ideally the information which is suppressed or grouped for contemporary research should be retained for historical research . |
| 4 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 5 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 6 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 7 | UNF The media unit name specified does not exist and , therefore , can not be assigned or used for offline . |
| 8 | Others are smuggled abroad for circuses or tourist entertainments or sold for medical research : there are 1,500 chimps in American labs . |
| 9 | The vessels that sailed in and out of the Minoan harbours , whether bay-hopping round the Cretan coast or bound for far-distant ports , were generally rather small . |
| 10 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |
| 11 | Culyer et al ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ . |
| 12 | ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ [ … ] |
| 13 | Opposition sources also claimed that a number of senior civil and military officers had recently been detained or executed for anti-government activities . |
| 14 | Unless this happens , the time and expertise of senior people is often wasted doing things that can perfectly well be done by others ; more senior or sophisticated tasks are not tackled ; and the talent of more junior people is never sufficiently developed or groomed for senior and more challenging roles . |
| 15 | It is usually stopped from six to fifteen inches from the hook , but this can be increased or decreased for special situations that demand either a longer or shorter tail . |
| 16 | This latter provision effectively requires rate precepts to be made or issued for complete financial years . |
| 17 | For instance , pupils might be asked to decide whether an object belonged to a wealthy or a poor person , whether it was an everyday object or kept for special occasions . |
| 18 | It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences . |
| 19 | In addition , the inclusion of academics from a broad range of subjects or chosen for particular expertise ( in student learning , for example ) means that a wider range of critical questions are more likely to be explored . |
| 20 | Around 75 per cent of China 's energy comes from coal — either via power stations , or burned for domestic heating . |
| 21 | Neither was it manipulated or controlled for specific stylistic effects concerned with those aspects . |
| 22 | An older horse may be quite fit , maybe having been hunted or hacked for long distances . |
| 23 | In the table below ( Table 1 ) , which shows data for the years 1973–79 , the combined number of employees dying from fatal accidents or occupational diseases ( most of which are avoidable if employing corporations obeyed government regulations and designed safe production schedules or paid for hazard-free work environments ) far exceed the number of homicide cases recorded by the police . |
| 24 | Mr Palios advised anyone who had paid deposits or paid for uncompleted work on credit to write to Cork Gully at 6 Minshull Street , Manchester . |
| 25 | They had neither made adequate preparation for the Single European Market nor allowed for proper funding for the Channel tunnel . |
| 26 | Selected or key settlements may be service centres ; they may also be associated with public investment in facilities such as schools and council housing , and designated for residential expansion or for industrial growth ( Woodruffe 1976 ) . |
| 27 | James Westbrook and Annette Friend play an evening of music written and arranged for classical guitar duet . |
| 28 | After hCG injection the females should be caged individually with proven stud males and checked for vaginal plugs on the following morning . |
| 29 | First they discovered bird droppings in their detector and checked for other possible malfunctions , but soon ruled these out . |
| 30 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |