Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 2 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 3 | According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ . |
| 4 | One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ . |
| 5 | FOUR RAILWAYMEN have plumped for a ‘ busmen 's holiday ’ this autumn … by organising a charity rail tour to delightful Poole in Dorset which will be picking up at Wigan North Western . |
| 6 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 7 | Most of the existing pilot sites have opted for a fairly large-scale computer-based system with a central system that stores for case-mix purposes , the data from a number of locally based feeder units . |
| 8 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
| 9 | Some European countries have opted for a more acceptable solution in the form of " right to reply " legislation , which allows judges or " ombudsmen " to direct newspapers to publish corrections and counter-statements from those who claim to have been misrepresented . |
| 10 | Annie Get Your Gun , opening on November 25 , has sold 25,000 tickets , and 80,000 seats have gone for the revival of Barnum , which opens on December 17 with Paul Nicholas in the starring role . |
| 11 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 12 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
| 13 | Will Tendulkar 's arrival mean the end of Yorkshire 's perceived racial policy — no Yorkshire Asians have played for the county ? |
| 14 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 15 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 16 | A parallel debate is evolving in Maine where officials have asked for the removal of a dam , built in 1936 , in order to preserve salmon runs . |
| 17 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 18 | Radical economists have argued for an escape to a market system before it is too late , but the conservative establishment has always over-ruled them . |
| 19 | Mr William Soeryadjaya ( Chinese name : Mr Tjia Kian Liong ) , the 67-year old seigneur , is a founder-member of the Euro-Asia Centre at INSEAD , the Paris-based business school where Astra 's middle managers get sent for a spot of polishing . |
| 20 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 21 | To that end , the organisers have opted for a less familiar face of Francis Bacon and tracked down rare and unusual material as well as pictures of great significance . |
| 22 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 23 | CAMPAIGNERS have called for an investigation into the cases of ten loyalist prisoners on remand in Belfast Crumlin Road prison . |
| 24 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 25 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 26 | But all eyes will be on the opening event on the morning of Sunday , June 20 , when over 200 entrants have applied for the Mountain Time Trial over one lap of the TT course against the watch . |
| 27 | PRISON officers have called for the reopening of the special segregation unit in Inverness , called ‘ the Cages ’ . |
| 28 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 29 | If one subtracts the vote of this vulnerable group from the remaining 76 per cent , this means that they have to live with the knowledge that more than one in four of voting co-residents have voted for a party that is rabidly hostile to them . |
| 30 | Congress , our principles have stood for a hundred and three years . |