Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | D'Alembord also prayed for a swift and overwhelming victory for himself . |
| 32 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 33 | Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia . |
| 34 | The British radicals , including the Chartists , who campaigned for a democratic franchise in the early nineteenth century also campaigned for a free press , by which they meant one unhampered by government censorship and taxes . |
| 35 | Claiborne Pell , chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee , also called for a neutral government in Kabul to hold elections or seek a traditional Afghan consultative assembly . |
| 36 | The agreement also called for a strict implementation of the Peshawar Accord . |
| 37 | Sympathetic to Germany , hostile to the entente with France , and unmoved by Belgium 's plight , he campaigned for neutrality in 1914 , and , as soon as this effort failed , launched the Union of Democratic Control , which opposed annexationist war aims and later also called for a negotiated peace . |
| 38 | He also called for a full investigation into Orkney 's Social Work Department , and the RSSPCC whose involvement was turning out to be very much more fundamental than had at first been supposed . |
| 39 | Fine Gael also called for a full public inquiry before exploration began . |
| 40 | For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending . |
| 41 | We also looked for a geographical spread of writers . |
| 42 | Support also grew for a new political movement , the environmentalists or Greens . |
| 43 | As well as arguing for a more liberal attitude towards the child , Locke also pleaded for a broader curriculum . |
| 44 | The union also voted for a further strike ballot on the new contracts . |
| 45 | Legislative power is vested in a single-chamber National Assembly of 175 members , also elected for a five-year term . |
| 46 | Legislative power is vested in the 180-member National Assembly , also elected for a five-year term . |
| 47 | and new manager John Gorman could't have dreamt up wished for a better start … |
| 48 | The US , by far the world 's wealthiest and most powerful state , also hoped for a stable , expanding world economy where freer trade would prevent a return to the depression and unemployment which had led to militant nationalism in the 1930s . |
| 49 | They also depended for a large part of their work on clawing money out of the social security system and on getting alongside other centrally funded bodies such as housing associations . |
| 50 | Nkrumah now asked for a constitutional adviser to be sent from England . |
| 51 | Authorities originally budgeted for a non-payment level of six per cent — about 250,000 Scots . |
| 52 | Midst all this , Atherton , who had fought desperately hard for almost 4½ hours , made an allowable mistake when he wearily felt for a rare straightish and wider ball from Waqar . |
| 53 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 54 | The rest of the budget , which reportedly provided for a partial devaluation , was denominated in rials . |
| 55 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 56 | ‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men . |
| 57 | A six-iron second shot reduced the 15th to an easy birdie , he narrowly missed for a two at the next and then finished three , three with first a seven-iron and then a nine-iron which landed close to the flags . |
| 58 | He then fainted for a few seconds . |
| 59 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 60 | Being Ireland , they ended up by eating three teas , then roared out to a singing pub in Howth , then went for a major curry before returning for a ‘ little party ’ in a student house . |