Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When rival gangs began fighting for black market spoils , the ethnic war which has engulfed Sarajevo and Bosnia for 10 months spilled over into Stup . |
| 2 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 3 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 4 | Recruits refused to search for these food sources , even when we put a food source in a boat in the lake at the indicated spot . |
| 5 | As a counterweight to this strengthening of relationships at the CNAA-institutions level the move to weaken the role of subject boards was reversed and the proposals adopted provided for greater integration of the boards than at first suggested . |
| 6 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 7 | Niki went fishing for another drive , and thought he had one at Renault ; but the big-manufacturer politics of that season and Gerard Larrousse 's increasing weakness therein , sabotaged that : Niki was kept dangling , offered the drive and then dropped . |
| 8 | By the 1870s matters had improved for some : a survey of Nonconformist ministers in the city of Oxford in 1875 showed stipends ranging from £60 p.a. plus house and allowances for a Primitive Methodist minister to about £300 p.a. for the Wesleyan Superintendent of the Oxford Circuit . |
| 9 | Parents had fought for this as a local resource to prevent the need for children to be placed in long-stay placements far from home . |
| 10 | Bespoke shopkeepers , celebrated chefs , jewellers , craftsmen and artists arrived to cater for exclusive tastes . |
| 11 | These ideas failed to allow for Austrian objections to Russian gains in the Balkans and grossly exaggerated the inclination of the Balkan Slavs to fight for their freedom , but they had the virtue of giving the tsar time to negotiate . |
| 12 | Again there are several explanations posited to account for these gender differences in health status . |
| 13 | Tommy Sheridan , convener of Scottish Militant Labour , said sacked workers had asked for outside support at the picket line . |
| 14 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 15 | Officials had to send for special chemicals to break down the tar and free the vehicles . |
| 16 | Despite the problems and doubts , sandwich courses remained a central feature of the polytechnics — even as some institutions began to press for full-time courses to replace or to accompany them . |
| 17 | The owners sought to withdraw for late payment of an insurance premium required by the contract . |
| 18 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 19 | Tears are shed as the traditional homes and communities are left — where the peasants and their families had lived for hundreds of years — and they go to feed the machine . |
| 20 | In the French general election of 21 October 1945 , 75 per cent of electors had voted for Communist , Socialist or Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ) candidates . |
| 21 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 22 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 23 | Both also operated as armies had done for many previous centuries by finding their supplies from the land as they moved about . |
| 24 | From the day of the first admission of patients no fewer than 90 persons had applied for medical relief . |
| 25 | Resolutions continued to call for further economies and lower taxation , so the government got no credit for what it had done . |
| 26 | Abrams attempted to account for some of the striking variations in ‘ neighbour behaviour ’ which he found in different areas . |
| 27 | Birth rates began to decline for all social groups as a consequence of changing attitudes towards economic conditions and opportunities . |
| 28 | She had forgotten the dreadful price her own sisters had paid for that male greed and self-interest . |
| 29 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 30 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |