Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Brown lived in Morrell House , Burton Stone Lane , York , but before that lived for 70 years in New Earswick . |
| 2 | This method was used by the Court of Appeal in Whiteside [ 1989 ] Crim LR 436 : The defendants were selling counterfeit cassettes at a price much cheaper than that charged for real tapes . |
| 3 | However , he was struck by the apparent paucity of linguistic skills in the right hemisphere of normal subjects compared to that reported for commissurotomised patients . |
| 4 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 5 | Significant changes were identified by applying a statistical threshold of 0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons ( see Fig. 2 legend for methods ) . |
| 6 | Most of them came apart like butterflies in a whirlwind and were dispersed ; some struggled for infinite moments , trying to summon up enough reserves of strength to achieve reality , before they were spent . |
| 7 | This recurred for several nights , and she simply reasoned that whatever it was not a danger to her life . |
| 8 | The testimony of those whose lives have been transformed by his work is very affecting : bonded labourers , now members of the union , some bonded for three generations for the sake of a loan of Rs200 ( £5 ) and a few kilos of padi ; now learning a trade through the ‘ polytechnics ’ established by the Chattisgarh Liberation Front . |
| 9 | What this entailed for civil liberties may be gleaned by looking at the way in which Dicey dealt with traditional freedoms in the body of his work . |
| 10 | This continued for eight days or nine , till the companions of the Cid had made ready every thing for their departure , as he had commanded . |
| 11 | It was in the 1370s that the balance of the economy was seriously altered ; from 1372 there was a fall in basic food prices but no drop in wages , and this continued for some years , putting pressure on the profit margins which the manorial lords could secure from their estates ( 60 ) . |
| 12 | This lasted for two years , until he became Headmaster of Doncaster Grammar School , where he stayed until 1881 . |
| 13 | This lasted for four hours , from right in the morning until a little after noon . |
| 14 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 15 | This lasted for three days and they were called-up for questioning several times each day . |
| 16 | This accounted for many derivations that are not simply inflections ( e.g. happy , happiness , happily ) . |
| 17 | Augusta National went for major winners from a burgeoning cast of Aussies who just may be hungrier than any of their contemporaries . |
| 18 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 19 | He then introduced a new type of 4–4–0 express locomotive , with a leading bogie which gave much smoother and safer negotiation of curved track at speed , and these ran for fifty years from their entry into service in 1876 . |
| 20 | The intensity of the band obtained when a RJ2.2.5 extract was used was much higher than that observed for Raji extracts , provided that the same protein concentrations were used ; interestingly AR exhibited a binding activity lower than RJ.2.5 and higher than Raji . |
| 21 | But if we all murdered for little things like that … |
| 22 | Sheridan , Seaman , Linighan , Sellars ( twice ! ) , all went for paltry sums and were good buys . |
| 23 | Robert II reigned for 19 years and died in Dundonald Castle on 13th May , 1390 . |
| 24 | Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak President , on Feb. 17 departed for official visits to Iceland , Canada and the United States , accompanied by Marian Calfa , the federal Prime Minister . |
| 25 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |
| 26 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 27 | Other hardware and software would be shared with that acquired for other projects . |
| 28 | Thomson says the new family is easier to customise however , since it uses prediffused master slices that require only four mask levels compared with the 15 needed for standard cells . |
| 29 | These three factors each accounted for similar proportions of combined effect on average pay of around 15 per cent . |
| 30 | With a few notable exceptions , the policy should be similar to that advocated for younger subjects . |