Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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1 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
2 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
3 | This structure differs from that found for the related H5 histone genes , where less than 150 bp of the proximal promoter region seems to be sufficient to ensure basal level transcription ( 19 ) . |
4 | Phosphorus accumulation reached a maximum during the deposition of unit VI ( Table 1a ) when the per capita output of 0.31–0.54kgyr -1 was similar to that reported for the Classic Maya . |
5 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
6 | Some reached Switzerland and some made for the mountains , but the majority , around eighty , were recaptured by the Germans . |
7 | When called to go to the gentiles , he was able to manage the change of understanding that this involved for the whole group . |
8 | This view of the structurally determined nature of thought and action , and the difficulty this posed for the representatives of the working class when using a formally neutral state to serve ends other than those of capitalism , was one of the major insights which underpinned Ralph Miliband 's seminal book of the 1960s , The State in Capitalist Society . |
9 | This instigated for the first time the right of appellation in the form of the Appellation d'Origine Controlée ( AOC ) and regulations were imposed including a cunning proviso which dumped the entire issue of the Aube wines and the controversial ‘ Champagne Deuxième Zone ’ firmly in the lap of the judiciary . |
10 | Yet it illustrates once more how throughout his reign , in spite of his personal adherence to so many of the attitudes and ideas of the Enlightenment , he was turning Prussia 's energies and attention to the East , with all that this implied for the future . |
11 | In 1724 Peter I ordered that all papers relating to foreign policy should be brought together in the college archive ; and work on this continued for the next two decades . |
12 | This accounted for the distrust felt for Great Britain in more autocratic states . |
13 | Wainfleet had not avoided the slur that Wickham was giving more attention to his private life than his professional and this accounted for the lack of progress in apprehending MacQuillan 's killer . |
14 | France 's League of Nations mandate extended across Syria and Lebanon , just as the British mandate encompassed Palestine , Transjordan and Iraq — with all the consequences this held for the future . |
15 | However , it is fair to conclude that town planning practice had not yet made any significant contribution in Britain to dealing with traffic question ; this remained for the future . |
16 | The role of the Queen is vastly different from that assumed for the monarch under the Tudors ; the hereditary element in the House of Lords has plummeted in importance in the deliberations of the House over the last two and a half decades ; and the House of Commons has become , although in relatively recent times , with the extension of the franchise , a popular assembly . |
17 | The relationship so created is then checked against that declared for the intersection of the functional domain ( see Figure 2.33 ) . |
18 | Its estimates are based on studies of climate conditions 65,000 years ago , when the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere was similar to that predicted for the year 2000 . |
19 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
20 | The mutated promoters all bound cAMP-CRP with the same affinity as the wt-promoter and the mobilities of the two retarded complexes was identical to that observed for the wt-promoter . |
21 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
22 | They all met for the international meeting at Salzburg in 1908 , having corresponded from 1906 onwards . |
23 | They all headed for the door , with that slightly stiff gait of people who are in a tearing hurry , but who are trying not to break into a run . |
24 | Secretly , we all yearned for the expensive egg-less sort . |
25 | If no-one admits to having been sick during the day , or ca n't produce a witness that he was , we shall want to know what they all ate for the evening meal . |
26 | He knew he was n't going to regret the move from the moment they all assembled for the first rehearsal . |
27 | Can I have a look at those menus that some of you brought in did i , cos we 've got some with a la carte did anybody get sort of erm a pub grub menu or No , you all went for the top of the range . |
28 | All I know is that they all supported the poll tax and they all voted for the guillotines that carried through the poll tax legislation . |
29 | The coach arrived and we all ran for the back seat . |
30 | I would begin my much-loved cleaning the moment they all left for the pub , and in pursuit of domestic perfection removed the cushions from the couch to find the little brown eye-dropper-bottle . |