Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Benjamin 's hands positively itched to take down the leather , jewel-embossed tomes ( so did mine for other reasons ) , but Mandeville shook his head . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I only had time for fast food . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was again a very painful operation in that she still suffered pain for many weeks thereafter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The Act also made provision for some appeals to be disposed of by courts composed of two judges rather than three . |
| 11 | There is evidence on both questions , from a unique and important data source : the MRC 's follow-up study of the 1946 birth cohort , the National Survey of Health and Development , which also provided material for some of Kathleen Kiernan 's research discussed in chapter 3 . |
| 12 | Thanks to its vigorous and far-seeing headmaster , it also found time for physical recreation , handiwork classes and art . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This board dropped ‘ Unemployment ’ from its title in 1940 when it also took responsibility for supplementary pensions from local authorities ( Wilson 1948:97 — 8 ) . |
| 16 | Voting also took place for 140 municipal councils and two new 45-member autonomous regional councils in the Atlantic Coast region . |
| 17 | Elections also took place for 40 seats in the 76-seat Senate , where each of the six states was represented by 12 members , and the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory by two members each . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The contingency originally had provision for some four thousand pounds for waste disposal . |
| 20 | They readily admitted responsibility for that evening 's aborted robbery ( by destruction of meters ) at Thistle Street during the preceding months . |
| 21 | As we have seen the initial ‘ capping ’ of the advanced further education pool for the year 1980–1 was achieved on an arbitrary basis which undoubtedly created injustice for many institutions and evoked strong criticism . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She then worked freelance for several local authorities and in 1991 joined the PSSRU as part of a team engaged on a programme of research in mental health commissioned by the Department of Health . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , in 1851 his health again gave cause for serious anxiety and he was compelled to give up full-time activity at the early age of forty-two . |
| 26 | Yet had time for one blow . |
| 27 | Twenty six of the 42 patients ( 61% ) with benign strictures eventually underwent surgery for medical intractability . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , over at Mount Edgecombe , the most favoured guess as the site of invasion , the Earl reluctantly gave permission for one hundred of his finest oaks to be felled as they could have given cover to invading forces . |