Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived in France all his life and , apart from three years spent in London ( 1857–61 ) training for a business career , only visited Britain for short painting expeditions on three other occasions in 1874 , 1881 , and 1897 . |
| 2 | Under the system of research funding proposed in the White Paper the principle of plurality of research funding will be maintained , giving institutions access to block funds for research alongside targeted funding for specific projects from the research councils . |
| 3 | Benjamin 's hands positively itched to take down the leather , jewel-embossed tomes ( so did mine for other reasons ) , but Mandeville shook his head . |
| 4 | If Anwar now perhaps had reason for entertaining minor reservations about Changez ( though Changez seemed delighted by Anwar , and laughed at everything he said even when it was serious ) , this could be nothing compared to Jamila 's antipathy . |
| 5 | I only had time for fast food . |
| 6 | He only had charts for western Russia , primarily Moscow and St Petersburg . |
| 7 | One of the earliest collaborators was the conductor Leopold Stokowski , who happily agreed to experiments to divide the Philadelphia Orchestra into individually miked sections for increased clarity , presumably in search of something more like the clarity he perceived from the conductor 's rostrum ( 14 ) . |
| 8 | I no longer had cravings for sweet or spicy food . |
| 9 | They challenged the Home Secretary 's 1983 policies which effectively abolished parole for certain categories of prisoners , but did win the right , with the assistance of the European Commission for Human Rights to be legally represented at prison disciplinary hearings . |
| 10 | In a significant concession to the black union movement , the government yesterday granted permission for International Labour Day — 1 May — to be celebrated as a public holiday . |
| 11 | This was the unplanned beginning of a process whereby the Liberal government gradually withdrew provision for deserving groups from the Poor Law , at no cost to the Exchequer and as little as possible to local rates . |
| 12 | A Paris agency yesterday offered £400,000 for exclusive pictures . |
| 13 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups . |
| 15 | However , while the EC is reluctant to upgrade links with Comecon , at least until the impact of economic reform in Eastern Europe is clearer , the Commission yesterday published proposals for wide-ranging trade and economic co-operation with East Germany and signalled a readiness to conclude similar agreements with Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | Thanks to its vigorous and far-seeing headmaster , it also found time for physical recreation , handiwork classes and art . |
| 17 | Similarly , with the state lacking means of its own to regulate the conduct of business by its subjects overseas it was convenient to delegate this function to the great trading companies , which also assumed responsibility for general colonial administration . |
| 18 | The wife also claimed damages for mental stress , vexation and strain caused by the defendants ' negligence . |
| 19 | Administration at local authority level also took responsibility for public consultation about major changes in school organization , for trade union relationships and for detailed arrangements relating to transport , admission procedures , school records , statistics and public relations . |
| 20 | This board dropped ‘ Unemployment ’ from its title in 1940 when it also took responsibility for supplementary pensions from local authorities ( Wilson 1948:97 — 8 ) . |
| 21 | The possession of Aquitaine and , after 1279 , Ponthieu also gave opportunities for individual advancement in the king-duke 's service . |
| 22 | The first two training colleges also had schools for deaf children attached to them , and teachers ' certificates were awarded to students who taught on the oral system to the exclusion of any other method . |
| 23 | While the central problem here was the unrestrained inner-city office and commercial development , the concern about this issue also had implications for owner-occupied housing . |
| 24 | Sentries in all the major towns now kept watch for suspicious-looking strangers , checkpoints were mounted at crossroads and a round-up of suspect gentry in Cumberland and Westmorland left many whose loyalty was doubtful safely lodged in Carlisle Castle . |
| 25 | They immediately began proceedings for judicial review to challenge the validity of the Regulations . |
| 26 | People were aware their children sometimes made problems for other people and they did n't bring them . |
| 27 | Centralised negotiations between the union and employer confederations led to ‘ frame agreements ’ which then provided guidelines for industry-wide negotiations between the national unions and employers ' organisations . |
| 28 | The universities there seemed models for British ones , and gradually the feeling gained ground that Germany was the intellectual centre of Europe — in science , in philosophy , in classical studies , in theology and in history Germans were making the running . |
| 29 | A commission headed by President Ramsewak Shankar then assumed responsibility for direct negotiations and had talks with Brunswijk and the Tucayana on March 2-3 . |
| 30 | Abolitionists were no longer exposed in their use of public meetings ; indeed , compared with the disorder which sometimes accompanied agitation for parliamentary reform , large antislavery meetings were able to project the eminent respectability which could be attained by popular reform enterprise . |