Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 2 | Even where direct sunlight is received for much of the day , its heating effect is severely restricted by high winds and high humidity ( Green & Harding 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 4 | Dr. Thackeray had never seen or prescribed for any of the patients at the asylum . |
| 5 | Martin Lally did find the net with one of his long-range specials , but the goal was disallowed for one of his team-mates being in an offside position . |
| 6 | Both teams 's lack of scoring power always threatened a goalless draw and there was little to suggest the deadlock would be broken for most of the match . |
| 7 | The methods they use , the mela shikar and the khedda , have not altered for thousands of years . |
| 8 | which I suppose it might be difficult to see what had to be arranged for that with you there 's a regularity , but you know the Trone is obviously a |
| 9 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 10 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 11 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 12 | Already equipped for this the fire brigade provided tarpaulins and arranged for more to be sent round . |
| 13 | No recreation was arranged for those of us in outlying areas . |
| 14 | " He 's arranged for some of his men to come along — it 's very heavy , you know — and he wondered whether you want it moved upstairs or downstairs . " |
| 15 | It is somewhat eased for some by the student loans system . |
| 16 | The interatomic distance ( A ) is given for one of the five contacts . |
| 17 | He was walloped for 31 for 1 in three overs and scored 20 . |
| 18 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 19 | Conner has grave doubts about how on-the-water umpiring , developed for 30 to 35-footers on the match race circuit , is working out with the bigger and faster America 's Cup class yachts . |
| 20 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 21 | Too small even to be found on many maps , too hidden for any of its innocent affairs to be worthy of attention , Granard seemed no longer to be part of the priest 's past . |
| 22 | It was 41 for 4 at tea , nine wickets having fallen for 69 in a session which none who experienced it will ever forget . |
| 23 | Mushtaq took the last two wickets to finish England off for 255 , the 10 having fallen for 132 in 45 overs . |
| 24 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 25 | Drew Minter , an American , has recorded a choice of arias intended for one of Handel 's castrati , ‘ Arias for Senesino ’ ( Harmonia Mundi CD HMU 905183 ) , as well as ‘ Ayres ’ by Thomas Campion ( HMU 907023 ) . |
| 26 | In June 1989 aluminium sulphate also entered a water supply intended for tens of thousands of people at Fossany Bane Works near Newry in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 28 | For both parts of the experiment , for each trial ( represented by columns 1 to 12 in each word list ) , the experimenter simply ticked each word correctly recalled and totalled the number of words recalled for each of the 20 serial positions . |
| 29 | Pupils in schools designated for those with moderate learning difficulties have often met failure throughout their schooling . |
| 30 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |