Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 2 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 3 | Her eyes flickered for a split-second to see Lucenzo 's reaction . |
| 4 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ As the recession deepened clients looked for a greater degree of measurability and a lower investment requirement . |
| 6 | Milton Keynes made two more champions this week , as Britain 's top ice skaters competed for the National Title at the Bladerunner club . |
| 7 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing point , East German ‘ Trabbi ’ cars queued for a quick sightseeing trip West . |
| 8 | A total of 553 candidates stood for the 120 seats in the Assembly . |
| 9 | After 6 washes in PBS , the third layer HRP-conjugated rabbit anti-goat antibody ( Sigma ) was added , the plates incubated for a further hour at RT , washed 6 in PBS and the reaction developed with ABTS ( 2'2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzthiazolone)sulphonic acid ) . |
| 10 | Relations deteriorated further in late March as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees headed for the Iranian border . |
| 11 | Many enthusiasts came for a last look and as each week passed there was a little less of the Woodhead line to photograph . |
| 12 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 13 | Electricity companies sparkled for the first part of the year . |
| 14 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 15 | Both clubs were prepared to pay the £700,000 Rovers wanted for the 23-year-old , but withdrew when they heard the player 's wage demands . |
| 16 | These statements spoke for the whole Unionist party in their vigorous tone , in the denial that Unionists were responsible for the state of things , and in the laying of blame on the Nationalists . |
| 17 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |
| 18 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 19 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 20 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 21 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 22 | Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods . |
| 23 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 24 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 25 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 26 | In January 1985 all the review teams , the advisers and the civil servants withdrew for a snow-bound week at Wilton Park , a Foreign Office mansion deep in the Sussex countryside . |
| 27 | JTR travelled on to Bute on the Iona and thence through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne where passengers transhipped for the continuing boat journey through the Crinan Canal to the open seas and islands of the West Coast of Argyll . |
| 28 | Local builders looked for a cheap and plentiful source of sand to make concrete blocks after Portland cement came into use , and the excavation tips were close at hand . |
| 29 | Folk myths and wisdoms survived for a long time . |
| 30 | What landlords needed for the booming export economy was better transport , credit , free labour and even machines . |