Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 2 | Well trampled ground may remain that way for some time . |
| 3 | However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood , and make due allowance for minor defects . |
| 4 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 5 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 6 | So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities . |
| 7 | As a result , it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision . |
| 8 | Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major . |
| 9 | Only eight and 12 children respectively received nutritional treatment for varying intervals during years one and two . |
| 10 | Thus , falling into the technocrats ' natural sin , it mistook administrative device for organic substance . |
| 11 | Murphy began his career as an apprentice with Vincent O'Brien 's younger brother Phonsie before he became stable jockey for top Irish trainer Paddy Mullins . |
| 12 | They lay that way for long moments , until the race of their hearts slowed , and then Nicolo brought her head to his shoulder . |
| 13 | Such an order would prevent the defendants using that information for any purpose of defending an action in the Commercial Court . |
| 14 | In particular , one may need help to see that caretaking for other people , protecting them from damaging consequences and also doing everything one can to " help " , may be having the exact opposite of the desired effect . |
| 15 | Gloves : Range from domestic grade , flock lined rubber for light cleaning , to heavy PVC styles with 450 mm cuffs which extend almost up to the armpits . |
| 16 | The benefit regulations make specific provision for those students , or in some cases their partners , to receive both income support and housing benefit provided that they meet the general qualifying conditions for those benefits . |
| 17 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 18 | Norfolk had a particularly strong tradition in the subject and the university 's resident tutor , Rachel Young , was given due credit for this , albeit anonymously : ‘ her work is outstanding and has influenced not only many students , but also some part-time tutors . ’ |
| 19 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 20 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 21 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 22 | Whatever may seem the case to a man chasing a bus , running involves little work for most vertebrates . |
| 23 | It is intended that yarn for hard twist carpets will form the bulk of production in the future months . |
| 24 | The Peacock Throne taken by Nadir Shah at the sack of Delhi in 1739 and later removed to Persia embodied the strongly developed Mogul taste for precious stones . |
| 25 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 26 | We forgot … police mislay stolen car for two months . |
| 27 | In one case , in which three different cuckoos parasitised the nest of a great reed warbler , one chick was thrown out soon after hatching : the other two then tried to eject each other for four days . |
| 28 | They are , that 's why I got that offer for three big ones . |
| 29 | Start by using each yarn for two rows of weaving — it can seem quite difficult to organise them at first , but you will soon start to be able to do this more quickly . |
| 30 | ‘ I understand you 've had only a boiled egg this morning , ’ she said meaningfully , then returning her attention to the maid , ordered , ‘ Make that tea for two , Margaret . |