Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 2 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 3 | In Britain the foreign office acquired a news department almost at once ; later two improvised bodies staffed largely by journalists and created for particular purposes , the Neutral Press Committee and the War Propaganda Bureau , were set up . |
| 4 | He also appealed to all Beninois to return to work to lay the basis for economic revival , while the transitional government implemented an economic structural adjustment programme and negotiated for external financial resources . |
| 5 | Jim — who by this time was not quite so slim — was fined £415 and banned for six months . |
| 6 | Oligos I and III were methylated , incubated with nuclear proteins and used for band-shifting experiments . |
| 7 | Firemen gave on-the-spot First Aid and the injured were rushed to the Moyle hospital by ambulance and treated for minor injuries after the accident at 10pm . |
| 8 | Raising the trapdoor a little more so he could see out , he cautiously pushed out the barrel of the shotgun and checked for any sign of enemy personnel , as best as he could in his limited field of vision . |
| 9 | He was sent off and fined £10 and banned for one game . |
| 10 | That was in August 1988 and Jones was fined two weeks ' wages by boss Bobby Gould and banned for three matches by the FA . |
| 11 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 12 | The original timber Warehouse was entirely destroyed by fire which started on 12th January and burned for three months . |
| 13 | Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float . |
| 14 | On July 1 , following two months of intensive negotiations , representatives of the Bush administration and congressional leaders reached a compromise agreement on an urban aid package which included the creation of enterprise zones and provided for total spending of $2,500 million over five years . |
| 15 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 16 | External factors may be blamed for the general depression of mood and blamed for various damaging consequences but no connection may be made between the depressed mood and damaging consequences and the continuing use of the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 17 | The 10-year agreement eased restrictions on imports and called for greater co-operation . |
| 18 | Thompson , of Crawley , was fined £400 and banned for six months for the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention . |
| 19 | Thompson , 42 , of Crawley , West Sussex , was convicted of the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention , fined £400 and banned for six months . |
| 20 | The 15 nations of the South Pacific Forum have condemned French nuclear testing and called for immediate cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases . |
| 21 | Flak jackets are available to our crews and issued for some operations . |
| 22 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 23 | ‘ With guns made of wood and bought for one-and-six each ? ’ |
| 24 | The follow-on 603 , 604 and 620 , implemented in 0.5-micron design rules and promised for 1993 , are for low-cost desktops and portables , 100MHz PCs and mainstream workstations and the 64-bit multiprocessor market respectively . |
| 25 | He also pledged to resist extreme nationalist views and called for strong measures to combat corruption , violence and crime . |
| 26 | It should perhaps be presumed that the claims are additive , and that in Bolinger 's view this position is both reserved for characteristic adjectives and favoured for sense-qualifying use . |
| 27 | In a sombre May Day speech , Mengistu admitted that the government had suffered setbacks and called for renewed commitment to the war , saying : " It is no longer a question of national unity , but rather of national survival . " |
| 28 | The bishops were ‘ invited ’ to police headquarters and questioned for eight hours . |
| 29 | Robert Pavlita , the Czech inventor of Psychotronic Generators , has given scientific proof of how psychic energy can be stored in material objects and used for various purposes . |
| 30 | The fillets are wrapped in cling film with garden herbs and poached for six to eight minutes . |