Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 2 | Only eight and 12 children respectively received nutritional treatment for varying intervals during years one and two . |
| 3 | In a classic experiment reported in 1964 , John Wing and his colleagues showed that long-stay schizophrenic patients given advance preparation for placements in an industrial rehabilitation unit were less likely to suffer a relapse than those who were unprepared . |
| 4 | Despite the consistency of the socioeconomic differences in sickness absence no studies have examined possible explanations for them . |
| 5 | Recently we have developed supportive homes for elderly and frail ex-R.A.F. men and women . |
| 6 | Dong et al. ( 1988 ) , for example , have developed microcomputer-based DSS for earthquake hazard mitigation . |
| 7 | Spokesman Ben Ord said doorstep canvassing had registered strong support for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 8 | Norfolk had a particularly strong tradition in the subject and the university 's resident tutor , Rachel Young , was given due credit for this , albeit anonymously : ‘ her work is outstanding and has influenced not only many students , but also some part-time tutors . ’ |
| 9 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 10 | It is intended that yarn for hard twist carpets will form the bulk of production in the future months . |
| 11 | The Peacock Throne taken by Nadir Shah at the sack of Delhi in 1739 and later removed to Persia embodied the strongly developed Mogul taste for precious stones . |
| 12 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 13 | The Gulf War , the re-alignment of Eastern Europe , the breakup of the USSR , the Middle East and not to mention Africa and South America given little support for anyone to disagree with SwissRe 's view . |
| 14 | The European rabbit is also important in the diet of the feral mink , which is given little credit for culling this acknowledged pest . |
| 15 | The modern janitor is given that title for having the keys to all doors in a building . |
| 16 | Given that safety for passengers must be paramount , you might like to consider if such a code of practice should be given some statutory status , or how else the good practice it describes might be disseminated and enforced . |
| 17 | But there are groups within the University that have been given specific responsibility for certain elements , and the largest of these is the Education Area . |
| 18 | Friends of the Earth in particular has strongly criticized English Nature for entering into the agreement , although it acknowledges that , since Fisons has extractions rights which pre-date existing conservation laws , the company can not be compelled to stop work . |
| 19 | For far too long we have given free publicity for such tourist spots as Edinburgh Castle . |
| 20 | For groups , one adult will be given free admission for every 20 young people in the group |
| 21 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , he saw the news of the Club and course as a good story and they were given generous coverage for many years . |
| 23 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 24 | The original division between those mentally handicapped children who were considered educable and those who were not formed some basis for the future classification of the mentally handicapped . |
| 25 | While a great deal has been discovered about the physiology of sleep , and psychologists have developed reliable techniques for establishing when people are likely to be dreaming , there has not been an equivalent amount of progress in understanding the nature of dreams . |
| 26 | Other researchers have criticized this test for being insufficiently rigorous . |
| 27 | Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise . |
| 28 | Our spies report that guests wearing Levi 's received free parasols for their jugs of cider . |
| 29 | And at moments of internal crisis — such as in June 1934 — the regime was stabilized and its leadership given extended room for manoeuvrability through the surge in Hitler 's popularity and the strengthening of bonds of identity between people and Führer . |
| 30 | In Imperial Russia the carriages were painted different colours for ease of recognition : blue for first class , brown for second class , and green for third . |