Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 2 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 3 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 4 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 5 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 6 | The train stopped for about two minutes . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 8 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 9 | She 's not painted for so long that she 'll just have to be encouraged more and more . |
| 10 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 11 | Evening viewing for parties of at least 50 can be arranged for either 1900 or 1930 . |
| 12 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 13 | For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 . |
| 14 | One of the commonest reasons given for why more people do n't cycle is ‘ danger from other traffic ’ . |
| 15 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 16 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 17 | Regulations are given for both normal ( seminal and menstrual ) and abnormal , possibly malignant , discharges . |
| 18 | Between 1909 and 1914 , partly as a result of the Act , partly in continuation of a preceding trend , loan sanction was given for significantly more houses to more local authorities than before . |
| 19 | The technique also enables them to opt for a 4 ohms working impedance ( as opposed to the norm of 8 ohms ) in the knowledge that this figure is much more consistent than the nominal figure given for almost all other loudspeakers ( in one or two notable designs the impedance dips almost to a short-circuit at certain frequencies , making them un-usuable with many amplifiers ) . |
| 20 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 21 | Details were traced for over 30000 workers involved in the construction of the large oil terminals in the Shetland and Orkney islands in northern Scotland or employed offshore . |
| 22 | Beech 's idea of consistent rules could be developed for even easier reading and learning . |
| 23 | The rule allowing students only one resit per session has been developed for both academic and logistic reasons . |
| 24 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 25 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |
| 26 | But Mr Coleman offered a glint of hope for Mr Bates , adding : ‘ This policy on ground-sharing was formed for very good reasons . |
| 27 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 28 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 29 | Of the six colleges only two are accredited for both primary and secondary training at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level ; primary provision predominates and , because of cuts imposed by the former DES in the past , even their joint secondary provision does not meet the full range of subjects required by the standard secondary school . |
| 30 | A distinction can be made between short-term potentiation ( STP ) , which decays within 1h , and long-term potentiation ( LTP ) , which is sustained for much longer periods . |