Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 2 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 3 | Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park . |
| 4 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 5 | — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals . |
| 6 | Your gear comes in for some heavy duty usage . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 8 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
| 9 | Thus employers came together for mutual support since labour 's ( political ) goals posed a threat not merely to individual employers but collectively to employers as a class . |
| 10 | The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism . |
| 11 | Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves . |
| 12 | So they were joining them , they came over The Texas sister came over for twelve months and they must have persuaded them to go back or something . |
| 13 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 14 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best . |
| 15 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best for overall satisfaction . |
| 16 | VOTING Day came early for some schools in the North-East who went to the polls yesterday in a mock General Election . |
| 17 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 18 | Once the Iraqis had pulled out , Kuwaiti vigilantes began combing the city for any Iraqi soldiers still hiding in the ruins and for anyone known or thought to have collaborated with the enemy , with Palestinians coming in for particular attention . |
| 19 | Farming comes in for much criticism , largely it appears because farmers have responded to the need to make a livelihood from the land by producing more primary commodities using industrial techniques . |
| 20 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |
| 21 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 22 | The Ulster Unionists came in for particular criticism , being accused of sacrificing the province 's interests in Europe for the prospect of holding the balance of power at Westminster . |
| 23 | He continued with his tour of inspection , in which every knot , cleat and screw came in for daily scrutiny . |
| 24 | The course theme will be ‘ All things come together for good ’ , and the week will include classes on movement , creative drama , acting , mask and improvisation . |
| 25 | In any event many contracts for the provision of the service come up for regular renewal , giving you the chance to tender when they do . |
| 26 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 27 | The legacy of Descartes comes in for further scrutiny in Joanna Hodge 's paper , which examines the concept of ‘ the subject ’ which philosophy has inherited from Descartes . |
| 28 | Bob Dylan comes out for ultra-right Pat Buchanan |
| 29 | So at least there 's income coming in for three months at the rate of your salary . |
| 30 | So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her . |