Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thirties was the decade when smart hostesses took to serving a great many dishes iced or frozen simply for the originality of the idea . |
| 2 | This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service ! |
| 3 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |
| 4 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 5 | But , in spite of the Royal Navy , Jones , after a voyage to be described later , sailed safely back to France , where his reception more than made up for the much cooler one he had received after his ‘ Whitehaven ’ cruise 18 months before . |
| 6 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 7 | William Green came to live in Ambleside in 1800 , when he retired from surveying and map making , and painted there for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | In this context , this means used and disclosed only for the purposes for which it is compiled , or for which authority is given , or with the donor 's consent or for certain other limited purposes . |
| 9 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 10 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |
| 11 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 12 | The ANC for its part responded that it regarded the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) as the private army of the NP and called instead for the integration of MK and the SADF into a new national army . |
| 13 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 14 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 15 | Of the six local children cast and trained especially for the production , eight-year-old Eve Macdonald makes a cute Gretl . |
| 16 | In the interval , Miss Honey left the classroom and headed straight for the Headmistress 's study . |
| 17 | They arrived at Alghero a little before five and headed straight for the home of Guido 's friends . |
| 18 | The blonde girl nodded and headed swiftly for the stairs . |
| 19 | This draper 's ploy was a bit of a con , for unless asked specifically for the farthing change , the assistant handed you a small card with perhaps three or four safety pins or a piece of paper with ordinary pins attached . |
| 20 | This can also be seen with evening primrose oil ; though not an essential oil , it appears to work better when applied externally for the treatment of hyperactivity in children . |
| 21 | Handson in association with Stanley Stanley Tools are offering £100 worth of Stanley and Rabone tools as shown below for the winner of Hands On competition for readers ' tips . |
| 22 | STANLEY TOOLS are offering £100 worth of Stanley and Rabone tools as shown below for the winner of our Hands On competition for readers ' tips . |
| 23 | As noted above for the NCp7:DNA complex , there is probably one molecule of NCp7 mutant bound per DNA oligonucleotide since the NCp7 mutants also migrate at apparent molecular weights higher than expected due to their high content of basic residues . |
| 24 | Generally speaking , wild antelopes , sheep and goats all tend to have the right-hand helix ( as defined above for the screw ) on the left side of the head and vice versa ( heteronymous ) , whereas the opposite is often true for domesticated sheep and goats ( homonymous ) . |
| 25 | The greater degree of digestion of the isolated teeth is due to their greater exposure to digestion while still in the predator 's stomach ( as suggested earlier for the molars ) . |
| 26 | For the recognition phase , a candidate string can either be compared with a list of grams of the same length as itself , or it can be divided into sequences of shorter grams ( in the same way as described above for the acquisition phase ) and compared with a list of grams of this shorter length . |
| 27 | These patterns can be related to the same type of factors as described above for the urban-rural shift . |
| 28 | Index biopsy specimens were taken during this colonoscopic examination as described above for the polyp group . |