Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session .
2 Our aim was to determine whether our authors met the criteria for any of these forms of psychosis and , if so , to ascertain in each case which ‘ diagnosis ’ provided the best description .
3 Review of neurology department registries found 129 outpatient records ; 24 met the criteria for probable Alzheimer 's disease and 20 of these noted admission(s) to psychiatric hospital .
4 So they also met the specifications for aerobatic kites .
5 On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed .
6 Its dictator , President Siad Barre , ditched the Russians for the better-heeled Americans .
7 The Act applied the provisions for elections to the Assembly to the elections to the Constitutional Convention .
8 Four members of staff shared the honours for the show 's success .
9 Tudhoe St Charles primary school won four of the six events in the last cross-country race of the season for youngsters from Spennymoor and Ferryhill , and shared the honours for two other events with Rosa Street school .
10 The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches .
11 It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour .
12 Dunnell was probably associated in business with Smethwick , a glass-grinder ( not to be confused , according to Hooke , with Francis Smethwick , FRS ) , who made the lenses for Dunnell 's instruments .
13 IT MIGHT be fair to assume that the people who made the posters for both Labour and the Conservatives would be experts on the way the campaign has been run .
14 I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets .
15 He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .
16 He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches .
17 She lowered the glasses for an instant so that he could see her eyes , then raised them again .
18 The 1923 Scheme lowered the standards for grant eligibility ; the superficial area of houses qualifying for subsidy was also reduced , resulting in smaller houses , let at lower rents .
19 This example revealed the possibilities for developing collaborative learning with the teacher present .
20 He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them .
21 If he sold the things for
22 We sold the shoes for industrial users and for farmers .
23 I did not find out how much she sold the garments for because she left me standing outside , but she always looked pleased when she emerged from these visits .
24 According to Stephen Hinchliffe , Wilkes ' chairman , it sold the shares for ‘ substantially more than 202p ’ .
25 A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names .
26 These influences laid the foundations for the blend of the naive and the sophisticated which is the hallmark of Thomson 's maturity .
27 THE foreign ministers of 19 West European countries yesterday laid the foundations for what they hope will emerge as a pan-European association joined by the reforming countries of Eastern Europe .
28 Churchill 's Iron Curtain speech in March 1946 at Fulton , Missouri , and Montgomery 's discussions in September with the American Joint Chiefs of Staff , on the Potomac river in the yacht Sequoia , articulated the threat and laid the foundations for Anglo-American cooperation in the defence of Western Europe .
29 In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs .
30 Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements .
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