Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University Labour Federation had been allowed to carry on active propaganda for Unity after being threatened with disaffiliation . |
| 2 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 3 | This laid down specific objectives for each party in A Squadron in three phases , specifying that the squadron would come under the command of the Eighth Army on 16 October . |
| 4 | At a meeting with Communist leaders on I1 December 1934 , Fenner Brockway laid down three conditions for continued co-operation : ( a ) Neither Party was to interfere in the internal affairs of the other ( b ) The Communist Party should state clearly whether it would oppose Labour Party or ILP candidates at elections ( c ) There should be no attempt to unify the ILP and the Communist Party into a single organisation until the next Annual Conference had discussed the matter . |
| 5 | Octavia Hill laid down strict rules for her tenants including prompt payment of rent on pain of eviction . |
| 6 | Wessex Regional Health Authority laid down strict conditions for his return , but Dr Cox said yesterday he had received ‘ certain assurances ’ and was happy to accept them . |
| 7 | Mr Baldry 's plans include bringing in stricter requirements for the care and housing of live birds , and introducing new checks on all imports . |
| 8 | You then ask the second child to write down any figures for the second row and you immediately write the third row . |
| 9 | During the day they hunt over large territories for small rodents as well as blue sheep , tahr , the Himalayan mountain goat , the young of yaks and mountain birds such as the snowcock and blood pheasant . |
| 10 | Vauxhall beat off worldwide competition for the engine plant contract . |
| 11 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 12 | The touching blocks disappear , possibly opening up new paths for moving the next block . |
| 13 | This entailed opening up new accounts for all the cardholders , sending out the new cards , and closing the old accounts . |
| 14 | The railway acted as a great consolidator , confirming strategic power and opening up new areas for settlement , industrial markets , mineral extraction , and the production of raw materials and foodstuffs . |
| 15 | And now the states emerging from the Soviet empire are opening up new markets for him : ‘ Suddenly there are 17 or so more countries all wanting their own national stamps , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Current debates on lesbian ‘ dress sense ’ are opening up more possibilities for experiment with image . |
| 17 | Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future . |
| 18 | A campaign of banquets and public meetings was mounted to demand reform , a zemstvo congress drew up specific proposals for constitutional change , and a series of politically-orientated professional unions was formed . |
| 19 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 20 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 21 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 22 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 23 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 24 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 25 | PICKED UP another £30,000 for sabbaticals — study leave — that he did not take . |
| 26 | AUSTRALIAN he-man Mel Gibson , best known for ‘ Mad Max ’ and ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ , has picked up kinder notices for his ‘ Hamlet ’ than perhaps he or anyone else expected . |
| 27 | So are America and the Soviet Union , to the extent that they wasted too much energy signing up local partners for the cold war instead of organising a local peace . |
| 28 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 29 | Gookey , 21 , has made rapid progress at 200 metres this year but will line up second favourite for that event and for the 100 metres , which he won last year , if Sale 's European junior champion attempts a sprint double at Blackpool . |
| 30 | I warm up baked beans for the children 's |