Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company chief David Ellwood said yesterday that his firm made nooses for British hangmen until 1964 — but had now dropped the trade . |
| 2 | In August , the Agriculture Minister , John Selwyn Gummer , announced plans for 12 experimental water protection zones including : Branston Booth , Lincs ; Sleaford , Lincs ; Chalford , Oxford ; Egford , Somerset ; Millington Springs , Humberside ; Ogbourne St George , Wilts ; Boughton , Notts ; Tom Hill , Staffs ; Wildmoor , Hereford and Worcester ; Wellings , Staffs and Shropshire ; Milton , Derbyshire . |
| 3 | However , Gorbachev on Nov. 17 salvaged his prestige with a short address in which he unexpectedly produced proposals for constitutional reforms to strengthen the central leadership and raise the level of the republics ' involvement in it . |
| 4 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 5 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 6 | But I got plans for this money . |
| 7 | NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m . |
| 8 | However , the King stood by his Apothecaries and their independence , although the City did not openly acknowledge them until seven years later , when they were allowed to take part in the river procession on Lord Mayor 's Day , using a hired barge for the occasion , since as yet they lacked funds for such ceremonial trimmings . |
| 9 | Meeting after meeting was held at which he found reasons for further delay . |
| 10 | Cherwell argued to Churchill that what he termed plans for social betterment , among which was a full employment policy , were non-political and should be part of an agreed programme . |
| 11 | This strategy involved proposals for formal arrangements for joint Great Power elimination of bases and the encouragement of neutralist and non-aligned sentiment in the Third World against Western bases . |
| 12 | They used courts for private cases : divorced wives whose maintenance had not been paid , and heirs who thought they had been cheated , appear in the earliest court records ; they were plaintiffs and claimants whose position was weak in the traditional system . |
| 13 | Their skyscrapers dominated the skylines of New York , London and Toronto , and provided homes for some of the world 's most powerful companies . |
| 14 | Centralised negotiations between the union and employer confederations led to ‘ frame agreements ’ which then provided guidelines for industry-wide negotiations between the national unions and employers ' organisations . |
| 15 | It has provided stability and created opportunities for hundreds of girls through decades of disruption . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt that such hostilities were having important consequences ; they created opportunities for new dynastic families to emerge . |
| 17 | And , finally , it seems likely that the government accepted that mixed schools for adolescents created opportunities for improper romantic and sexual activity . |
| 18 | Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups . |
| 19 | Mother and children spent 1/2d a week on lunches and all shared the Sunday joint , which provided suppers for two days in the week following . |
| 20 | The case highlights the extent to which it was possible for the religious intellectuals to misjudge exactly where the consensus lay , as well as the extent to which an evolving historical situation which created areas for new decision-making provided the field for a new power contest . |
| 21 | Andrew Carnegie was one of those enlightened people who provided libraries for rural areas on the mainland and certainly not the only one ; sometimes people got together under the leadership of the minister or the doctor and formed their own society . |
| 22 | He found buyers for seventy-four lots which raised £3.24 million ( $4.86 million ) , but nineteen lots failed to sell . |
| 23 | Almost concealing the nervousness at his new promotion , Meyer conducted the morning 's sale at Sotheby 's with competence and found buyers for seventy-two lots totalling £1.09 million ( $1.61 million ) , with a further thirty lots failing to attract bids or reach reserves . |
| 24 | Further government decrees on March 23 and April 10 removed all restrictions on the private hiring of labour , and created conditions for free enterprise in retailing , services and tourism . |
| 25 | This complex mixture , dominated by a powerful medical profession firmly established during the nineteenth century , posed problems for subsequent attempts to rationalize the health services , and therefore influenced the shape the national health service eventually achieved . |
| 26 | He invited suggestions for future meetings/outings . |
| 27 | Having dealt with Hopkins 's venture , the News of the World 's reporter thumbed through It , where he found advertisements for Psychedelic Review and ‘ editorial matter praising drugs and drugtakers ’ . |
| 28 | The new cotton-spinning mills created opportunites for some women after the mid 1760s , but in many rural districts the loss of cottage spinning reduced family earnings . |
| 29 | From his mother , and her more easy-going and less consciously nonconformist relations , he found sanctions for that profound exploration of sensations that were given early expression in his gift for ‘ composition ’ . |
| 30 | Only six of the studies reported results for respiratory or diarrhoeal morbidity : three of the community trials , two of the measles trials , and one of the trials in very low birthweight infants . |