Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me .
2 With regard to the public interest , the important figure is the sum that is realised for the Scottish Bus Group as a whole .
3 Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society .
4 The European Commission , which is responsible for formulating the proposal in line with the views of the council of ministers , was criticized for the repeated delays in the adoption of the third Framework programme and hopes to stick to the intricate timetable for approval of the new programme , which must be accepted at three levels .
5 There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time .
6 The fans are still hoping the terraces will be filled for a bright new future to come .
7 He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast .
8 The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example .
9 Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 .
10 The problems with the New Age Travellers also helped confirm the fears of nearby villagers who have been trying to get the festival stopped for the past year .
11 Seven orders have been received for the new jet which will have a 3,600-mile range .
12 The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly .
13 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President since 1980 , was returned to office unopposed when no other nominations were received for the presidential election scheduled for June 26 ; she was to begin her fourth four-year term on Aug. 1 , 1992 .
14 Many congratulations on the splendid final total received for the sponsored event at the Reunion — £1857.18 .
15 With planning consent now received for an improved access for the physically handicapped and an extension to provide a parish office and toilet for the disabled , tenders will shortly be invited for the building works .
16 As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom .
17 The usual planting medium prescribed for the other Aponogeton species is recommended .
18 However , for best results any of the mixtures prescribed for the other species of Cryptocoryne should be provided .
19 Bohr and his friends hammered out an approach to the understanding of quantum theory which hardened into a rigid orthodoxy prescribed for the faithful .
20 You can see the parallel in real life to these experiments for those children who are frequently punished for no good reason .
21 That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind .
22 WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children .
23 You must be punished for the wicked thing you did ’ ( The Times , 15 September 1991 ) .
24 Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason .
25 The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs .
26 Bureaux in the main are not purpose-built and even if they have been especially partitioned for the purpose-built and even if usually enough total space to consider the ergonomics of advice work .
27 When measuring success and failure , the standard referential communication approach to the problem is to carry out a task analysis to determine which critical features need to be communicated for a successful outcome .
28 Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him .
29 Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition .
30 Among the outstanding work in the gallery must be the series of panels of the Passion painted for the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod in 1350–5 .
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