Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 2 | Thomas , his voice light , asked for his compliments to be sent to Cook , asked for a little more wine . |
| 3 | It planned for a more open democracy to include a revision of " anti-terrorism " legislation and improvements in the field of human rights , media censorship and academic freedom . |
| 4 | Lillie Moulton was invited to Fontainebleau in August 1866 on a day of ‘ intolerable heat in a crowded train which made for a highly unpleasant journey ’ . |
| 5 | It made for a somewhat strained atmosphere , but as a company they were used to that . |
| 6 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 7 | On a more positive note , the expedition did make port at the appointed hour on the appointed day , having spent several hours in a public house further up the estuary to avoid being early , which made for a very ‘ happy ’ reunion . |
| 8 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 9 | Few Tories were quite as extreme as the Earl of Rochester , who at the renewal of hostilities in 1702 argued for a strictly limited naval war as the best way to check the power of France , and most recognised the need for some form of combined operations . |
| 10 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 11 | Such a view was challenged in the middle of this century by Robert Walcott , who argued for a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the party structure under William and Anne . |
| 12 | The Green Paper also argued for a nationally agreed framework for the curriculum and also wanted the local authorities to coordinate the curriculum and its developments . |
| 13 | Eugenists argued for a quite different understanding of how norms and averages were to be calculated . |
| 14 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 15 | The first was announced in a Practice Direction ( 1989 ) 1 WLR 281 , which provided for the much earlier delivery of skeleton arguments which would be studied by the judges before they sat to hear the appeal . |
| 16 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 17 | The important findings are that although transient DGR is present in healthy subjects , it occurred for a significantly greater proportion of the study time in patients with gastric ulcers and in patients with persistent pain after gastric surgery ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 18 | In our study continuous monitoring showed that DGR occurred in all patients with gastric ulcers , and that it occurred for a significantly greater proportion of the study time than in normal controls . |
| 19 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 20 | He drew a deep breath and headed for the nearest parked car . |
| 21 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 22 | On Tuesday we opted for a more strenuous hike from Braithwaite village up the steep sloped of Grisedale Pike . |
| 23 | We opted for a more strenuous trip , packed out sunhats and set off . |
| 24 | REPRESENTATIVES of 1,600 Lloyd 's of London names who lost hundreds of millions of pounds through syndicates run by Mr Dick Outhwaite yesterday appealed for an out of court settlement of a threatened legal wrangle . |
| 25 | It was a fast journey , and accomplished for the most part in silence , although Rohan did point out the entrance to the Château de Biron , as they flashed past . |
| 26 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 27 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 28 | The main thrust of Lukacs 's criticism is that the rich potentiality of socialist realism degenerated for the most part into what he terms the " anaemia of socialist naturalism " because its practitioners deliberately chose to substitute the profundity of Marx 's original dialectical understanding of reality for the banality and facility of Stalinist economic subjectivism " , the inevitable consequence of the Stalinist personality cult . |
| 29 | Chapter 3 showed for the most part that traditional society had an arbitrary approach to the problem typified by suicide ( as with the Banyankole ) , ‘ snuffing out ’ ( as with the Nyakyusa and Ngonde ) or violent change ( as with the Shilluk ) . |
| 30 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |