Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 2 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 3 | Thus employers came together for mutual support since labour 's ( political ) goals posed a threat not merely to individual employers but collectively to employers as a class . |
| 4 | The Brownes and their descendants lived here for many years and played a prominent part in the life of the village . |
| 5 | Immunohistochemistry showed that these distorted hepatocytes stained intensely for cytoplasmic HBsAg and cytoplasmic and nuclear HBcAg ( Fig 2A , B ) . |
| 6 | In table VII we compared the observed numbers of cases with those expected for lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , for all other cancers , and for all cancers combined separately for 1963–83 and 1984–90 . |
| 7 | If a Maori left his tribe and went to live in another district , either through marriage or otherwise , and he and his descendants remained away for three generations , they would forfeit all rights to the land so abandoned ; their claims would become ahimataotao . |
| 8 | Time consuming and costly negotiations on pay settlements can be over and done with in hours instead of weeks , as each proposal is fed into the model and the implications displayed immediately for further discussion . |
| 9 | It is also true that exercise classes arranged specifically for hemiplegic patients are sometimes organized by people who are not aware of the nature of spasticity , so the carer and the patient must scrutinize any proposed activities before the patient tries to join in . |
| 10 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 11 | Clearly all things worked together for good in this family where friction was as rare as in a well-oiled machine . |
| 12 | Damiani paused here for several seconds . |
| 13 | Unfortunately General Gordon was killed before its completion but his two sisters lived there for forty years . |
| 14 | Last night six names went forward for next month 's selection contest caused by the decision of Mr Ted Leadbitter to retire after 25 years . |
| 15 | The North-east coalfield developed early because of access to sea routes to the capital ; the other landlocked coalfields catered only for regional markets before canals and navigable rivers enabled them to lower their prices and until the railways opened up national markets . |
| 16 | American and Japanese scientists worked together for three seasons , sharing equally in the specimens discovered . |
| 17 | The demonstrations continued intermittently for some 10 days . |
| 18 | The police did so for several days , but there was no further development . |
| 19 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 20 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 21 | That 's because it 's one of the delicacies reserved especially for 50 of the children at the local primary school . |
| 22 | A father 's influence which has been revealed as destructive and all but disastrous is thought to have remained dominant — as was only natural — until the women broke away for good . |
| 23 | This is a significant advantage over RDS-EON which has to be slotted into programmes intended also for domestic and ‘ walking ’ listeners . |
| 24 | The first water-based Gloss and Satin paints produced exclusively for independent retailers have been launched by Trend . |
| 25 | Shares did well for most of yesterday , with the FT-100 index up 17 points at one stage . |