Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it an insult to my bottom that I was forced to sit on it while playing this badly designed excuse for a game . |
| 2 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 3 | The celebration of feasts such as Easter , Christmas , Whitsuntide , Rogationtide , and the Harvest Thanksgiving gave the local community a much needed opportunity for a collective expression of its religious values . |
| 4 | In effect , therefore , the collectorship of supply became a gauge of party strength in a county , and unlike the parliamentary elections , the election of a friend only provided security for a single year . |
| 5 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |
| 6 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 7 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
| 8 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 9 | Recently , it was found that a mentally handicapped woman in Durham had been wrongly denied benefit for a number of years and that the cumulative total was £25,000 . |
| 10 | Mr Gibson who has already received permission for a tea shop can now submit separate applications for the visitors ' centre and the conversion of a former smithy into a holiday cottage the two elements supported by councillors . |
| 11 | Since NICRA had already targeted Derry for a march , there was ready agreement and a delegation from NICRA travelled to Derry to discuss arrangements with the DHAC . |
| 12 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 13 | A donation of £260 from the proceeds of the tombola stall and refreshment/poster sales has been handed to the theatre by the Friends who have already made plans for a repeat performance in the autumn . |
| 14 | Although the Government promise action to preserve hedgerows , they have not produced proposals for a hedgerow protection Bill . |
| 15 | Sir Bryan Carsberg , director general of Telecommunications , gave the order because operators had not raised £660,000 for a compensation fund to pay those whose phones had been used without permission . |
| 16 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just signed Schwarzenegger for a three-movie deal , my wife 's oil paintings are going to be shown in a major London gallery , my son got first-class honours at Oxford and I 've won half a million on the pools . ’ |
| 19 | In a letter to the BR chairman , Sir Bob Reid , the party 's transport spokesman , Murray Falconer , wrote : ‘ By not putting forward already established plans for a Dornoch firth rail crossing , BR is deceiving the people it should be serving … |
| 20 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) This House has expressly approved actions for a declaration of nullity as alternative to applications for certiorari to quash , where private law rights were concerned : Wandsworth London Borough Council v. Winder [ 1985 ] A.C. 461 , 477 , per Robert Goff L.J . |
| 22 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
| 23 | You 'd be right , of course : Citroens which have lost the use of their hydropneumatic systems are sorry beasts , best taken to one side and shot in the neck ; and I 'll admit I was once charged £300 for a new water pump for a CX model , but this is no reason to dismiss them . |
| 24 | Indeed , reports showing a reduction , or even disappearance of the asthma with surgical repair or medical management of the reflux have further strengthened support for a GOR-asthma association . |
| 25 | Will he now reconsider his advice that local initiative will solve all these problems , given that he has undermined local initiative in the example quoted earlier about people who have been willing to put up £17 million of locally raised money for a project which was undermined by the Welsh Office ? |
| 26 | De Benedetti disclosed that Hewlett-Packard Co had also approached Olivetti for a possible alliance , but declined to elaborate . |
| 27 | The group has also claimed responsibility for a string of murders of journalists and other civic leaders opposed to the cartels and in favour of Mr Barco 's decree authorising the drug traffickers ' extradition to the US . |
| 28 | O'Shea , an oboe player who had also made albums for a west London record label , admitted the manslaughter of Miss Turner and was sent indefinitely to a secure mental hospital . |
| 29 | Detailed studies of English science during the period of the puritan domination have also revealed plans for a national agency to supervise technological innovation — plans that had taken shape in the mind of Samuel Hartlib . |
| 30 | In 1989 councillors unsuccessfully invited tenders for a refreshment facility in an attempt to encourage more drivers to use the site . |