Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 2 | Apart from programs designed for vertical markets or specially written for a particular job , most of the products you 'll find are ‘ pen aware ’ which means they can recognize a pen as both a mouse and an input device , but do n't have any other facilities to take advantage of the pen . |
| 3 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 4 | These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger , although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy ; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck , or simply reserved for a leisured elite . |
| 5 | The indies also have a role in picking up those that once recorded for a major label , like the Dutch singer , Mathilde Santing . |
| 6 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 7 | There is a distinction between an article created as a one-off work of art and something made as a practical , utilitarian object and perhaps destined for a production line . |
| 8 | In 1293 he was committed to the Tower for a second time , perhaps for misconduct in the service of Queen Eleanor , and only released for a second fine of 1,000 marks . |
| 9 | They are complicated and obviously designed for a purpose , yet they are not alive , and they are made of metal and plastic rather than of flesh and blood . |
| 10 | When recession struck the oil-pumping south-west in the 1980s , thrifts in Texas and elsewhere pleaded for a relaxation of capital standards to help them grow out of trouble . |
| 11 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 12 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 13 | The herbs must be in the best possible condition and generously used for a good refreshing taste . |
| 14 | But for himself he disliked coincidence of any sort and always sought for a logical answer . |
| 15 | AI has called for an independent inquiry into the killings and repeatedly called for a curb on the use of firearms by the security forces . |
| 16 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 17 | From there he had got into Trinity College , and now hoped for a career in the Civil Service . |
| 18 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 19 | As the time approached for me to concentrate on my matriculation , I decided to offer Charlie the opportunity to buy out my share of the partnership and even arranged for a qualified accountant to replace me in order that they could take over the book-keeping . |
| 20 | Then they started signing autographs and even posed for a photograph with pub regular Frank Gait . |
| 21 | But look ! here come more crowds , pacing straight for the water , and seemingly bound for a dive . |
| 22 | An infant suspected of having pyloric stenosis would usually be assessed by a house officer in the casualty department and then referred for a surgical consultation . |
| 23 | But against their gross revenues and then standardized for a person earning $15,000 per annum this represented only $96 . |
| 24 | After two days , Beattie 's trial was adjourned for eighteen days and then resumed for a further three days . |
| 25 | The roadway is closed to traffic by a turnpike , then , underneath a kind of Bridge of Sighs connecting the main block with the buildings attached to the Arch , it is closed again by a set of ornamental gates — and then closed for a third time by another turnpike . |
| 26 | After graduation he held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI ) , Newcastle upon Tyne , and then worked for a year in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before becoming house physician at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London ( 1939 ) . |
| 27 | After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall . |
| 28 | On his return in 680 he was deprived of his relics by Iurminburg , imprisoned for nine months by Ecgfrith , and then expelled for a second time from the kingdom . |
| 29 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 30 | Made from bamboo poles , which are exceptionally strong , the framework of this suite is bleached and then whitewashed for a unique finish . |