Example sentences of "[vb past] for [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission , Graham C. Greene , has asked the Attorney General Nicholas Lyell to look into the matter of the permission , finally granted this year by the Charity Commissioners , but applied for in 1988 , to break the Trust of Thomas Holloway . |
| 2 | The ambiguity of something so ill-defined argued for on such different , and sometimes contradictory grounds , needs serious analysis . |
| 3 | If the interpretation of democracy argued for in this book is correct , or at least is found persuasive by its readers , then it should be clear that its principal practical implication is that democracy is still " unfinished business " on the agenda of modern politics . |
| 4 | She is likely to choose the room Amy Carter opted for in 1976 . |
| 5 | A fourteen year old criminal at the centre of a row about trips to Spain paid for by social services may be going back to his grandparents ' home there for Christmas . |
| 6 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |
| 7 | It opened for like one day . |
| 8 | And that was all d'Alembord prayed for at this moment , that Ford would learn success fast and thus calm his worried fears . |
| 9 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 10 | As deadpan as in its more accustomed role of relaying verbatim endless speeches by Mikhail Gorbachev , the official Soviet news agency reported yesterday on a town terrorised by ‘ at least three ’ visitations from outer space — and vouched for by eminent local scientists , no less . |
| 11 | A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company . |
| 12 | In 1975 I left Jerry and not long after joined up with Lanny Wadkins , who I worked for from 1976 to 1980 , when I was ready to move on again . |
| 13 | Some aspects of its proposals for reforming the police and rethinking police tactics were implemented during 1982 and 1983 , but evidence of the ‘ urgent action ’ which it called for in other areas remained difficult to find . |
| 14 | But Ben Macdhui has been known to give walkers more than they bargained for on several occasions . |
| 15 | But Walter Machin was just what we went for in those days : we were all daft about him could n't think o' anything else , from morn to night . ’ |
| 16 | Keegan was cheered and chanted for by United 's 3,000 fans throughout the match — a Geordie version of ‘ We love you , yeah , yeah , yeah ! |
| 17 | To say prayers in the Catholic way of worship , and feed one 's soul on frequent sacraments , and practise a little fasting , and use the sacrament of confession , and study Marcion and the early Church and the Bible , and to have time for quietness and silence and meditation — that was what he looked for at this moment of his life . |
| 18 | The ‘ Parliament ’ referred to there is obviously the Westminster Parliament and by implication the ‘ country ’ must be the whole territory legislated for by that Parliament , that is , the UK as a whole including Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | However , some commentators observed that the book value of exports to the Soviet Union , which accounted for over one-third of all exports , had been inflated by the use of unrealistic exchange rates . |
| 20 | In commercial terms the EC accounted for over one-fifth of world trade and was comparable in importance to the USA and Japan . |
| 21 | What a good talking point , people did n't know what the G M B was , did n't know what they actually truly stood for with all the publicity what we do , all the good work we do lately , locally . |