Example sentences of "[verb] for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 2 | Part of the problem may be that the Labour government of 1974–79 was unduly protecting jobs in northern nationalized industries , but Labour was then criticized for halting the growth of public-sector services . |
| 3 | The reshuffle , which included the addition of two new Cabinet posts , was criticized for enlarging the Cabinet at a time of economic hardship . |
| 4 | The decision in December 1989 to transform Noriega 's infamous Panamanian Defence Force ( FDP ) into a lightly armed Panamanian Public Force ( FPP ) under civilian control [ see also p. 37181 ] had been heavily criticized for leaving the government open to such paramilitary attacks and making it more dependent on the USA than before . |
| 5 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 6 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 7 | However , it was criticized for continuing the country 's economic expansion programme — risking further damage to the environment and an increase in the gap between rich and poor — and for not offering concrete solutions or even new policy initiatives to tackle the country 's economic and social problems . |
| 8 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , this view can be criticized for over-stressing the importance of local social relations , and for a rather restricted view of how these relations are translated into policy . |
| 9 | The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests . |
| 10 | If a procedure is prescribed for making the rule it must be followed , unless the procedure is directory rather than mandatory . |
| 11 | He was punished for publishing The Light and Dark Sides of God ( 1650 ) , copies of which were ordered to be burned , although George Thomason [ q.v. ] was still able to acquire a copy in November of the same year . |
| 12 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 13 | Bernadette had been sacked for cheeking the nurse . |
| 14 | Langbaurgh Council was honoured for revitalising the Spencerbeck Estate , near Eston , Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | Then , Messrs. Gwynne 's proposal for equalising the strain on each individual rope by means of connected hydraulic rams is most satisfactory , as also is their suggesting for actuating the lift-up gates by means of hydraulic pressure utilising the engine for pumping up the accumulator . ’ |
| 16 | I thought everything was arranged for using the Mission Hall ? ’ |
| 17 | I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal . |
| 18 | Guidance is given for recognising the existence of such circumstances , including of course a member 's breach of the LCH regulations . |
| 19 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 20 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 21 | On-screen guidelines are given for changing the ink cartridge , which does 60 pages at a cost of around 2.5 pence each . |
| 22 | The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate … |
| 23 | There are modern history books which ostensibly focus on periods of great social change but the reader could be forgiven for reaching the conclusion that there have been no social changes which have involved/ affected women . |
| 24 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 25 | Younger natives in the audience were made distinctly restless by an unadorned programme of traditional Indian dance , while even un-jaded oldies could be forgiven for finding the storybook tones of the play more testing than they should be . |
| 26 | As a result of this work on animals , methods were developed for assessing the health of the human foetus which were based on its breathing movements in the uterus . |
| 27 | Certain arguments do exist for retaining the word ‘ rape ’ even if radical reform involving a gradation system and an expanded definition of sexual intercourse is introduced . |
| 28 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 29 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 30 | But what impressed most viewers of the deliberations at Thomond Park was the crisp passing of the Garrowen backs when the opportunity arose for spreading the ball wide , something that does n't often occur in local derbies at Thomond Park . |