Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 According to the values listed above for the product of the reaction in our example for case 2 should be NiO(s) and not CO(g) .
2 Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry .
3 She reached up and pulled his head down , her lips parted expectantly for a renewal of his kisses .
4 It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young .
5 Wardhaugh 's ( 1986 : 175–7 ) reference to the Belfast research , for example , appears to suggest that the whole thing was undertaken as an investigation of social network and the linguistic variables selected specifically for the purpose of demonstrating network patterns quantitatively .
6 As far as we are concerned , there are basically three types of music a producer can use in a production : commissioned , commercial or production/library music , commissioned music being an original piece written specifically for the producer by the composer .
7 Maturity data shown here for the Peel and Beatrix areas of the Netherlands ( Kuyl and Patijn , 1961 ) are not directly comparable with the other Carboniferous data as these were derived from volatile matter determinations ; the data have been transformed to vitrinite reflectance equivalent for display purposes using the relationships established by McCartney and Teichmüller ( 1972 ) .
8 She only realised that the meal had ended when Piers summoned across for the bill .
9 Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’
10 Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before .
11 Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch .
12 Under the 1975 Constitution , legislative power was vested in the 40-member National Assembly indirectly elected for a five-year term , executive power was vested in a President elected indirectly for a five-year term , and the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ) was the sole legal political party .
13 It was found that words were named faster ( i.e. , the task was easier ) when they had high spatial redundancy , and the same was true for nonsense nonwords created specifically for the experiment ( e.g. , " cird " and " bosket " , in contrast with " ilso " and " abtion " ) .
14 That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament .
15 Its European outlet , Pinnacle Data Systems UK Ltd , is currently in talks with a European manufacturer to get its products made locally for the UK and continental markets .
16 The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags .
17 This may be because of the built-in didactic nature of any story written specifically for the young .
18 Almost all wore skirts , make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras .
19 Yet one more distinction is the conclusion that the Japanese use more unique parts — elements designed specifically for a particular model .
20 The directors may , for instance , make gifts to the employees , but only where this can be regarded as ‘ an inducement to them to exert themselves in future , or as an act done reasonably for the purpose of getting the greatest profit from the business ’ .
21 If the Goschenen rail station appears disproportionately large for the size of the village , this is accountable to the control functions exercised here for the traffic through the 15km ( 9 mile ) long Gotthard railway tunnel which begins here .
22 On April 29 , the co-ordinator of the UN programme for returning Kurdish refugees said that the $100,000,000 set aside for the operation was totally inadequate .
23 All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back .
24 This value fits well with the expected M r of 50 kDa determined previously for the N-Oct 3 protein [ 14 ] .
25 Dropped calves made £270 paid twice for a Limousin bull and a Simmental bull .
26 The board of inquiry called yesterday for a full and open judicial inquiry into the alleged activities of the death squad , noting that the present McNally investigation was an inter-departmental inquiry behind closed doors .
27 Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it .
28 THE leader of Scotland 's solicitors called yesterday for an end to piecemeal tinkering and urged on the Government a major review of the entire system of justice .
29 THREE conservation groups called yesterday for a boycott of Faroese fish in an attempt to halt the annual slaughter of pilot whales by the islanders .
30 ‘ And I have no water boiled yet for the porridge . ’
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