Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the foreign office acquired a news department almost at once ; later two improvised bodies staffed largely by journalists and created for particular purposes , the Neutral Press Committee and the War Propaganda Bureau , were set up . |
| 2 | Oligos I and III were methylated , incubated with nuclear proteins and used for band-shifting experiments . |
| 3 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 4 | On July 1 , following two months of intensive negotiations , representatives of the Bush administration and congressional leaders reached a compromise agreement on an urban aid package which included the creation of enterprise zones and provided for total spending of $2,500 million over five years . |
| 5 | The 10-year agreement eased restrictions on imports and called for greater co-operation . |
| 6 | Flak jackets are available to our crews and issued for some operations . |
| 7 | The follow-on 603 , 604 and 620 , implemented in 0.5-micron design rules and promised for 1993 , are for low-cost desktops and portables , 100MHz PCs and mainstream workstations and the 64-bit multiprocessor market respectively . |
| 8 | He also pledged to resist extreme nationalist views and called for strong measures to combat corruption , violence and crime . |
| 9 | It should perhaps be presumed that the claims are additive , and that in Bolinger 's view this position is both reserved for characteristic adjectives and favoured for sense-qualifying use . |
| 10 | In a sombre May Day speech , Mengistu admitted that the government had suffered setbacks and called for renewed commitment to the war , saying : " It is no longer a question of national unity , but rather of national survival . " |
| 11 | Robert Pavlita , the Czech inventor of Psychotronic Generators , has given scientific proof of how psychic energy can be stored in material objects and used for various purposes . |
| 12 | The fillets are wrapped in cling film with garden herbs and poached for six to eight minutes . |
| 13 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 14 | After hCG injection the females should be caged individually with proven stud males and checked for vaginal plugs on the following morning . |
| 15 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 16 | ‘ Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Car number five cost six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and sold for sixteen hundred and forty-nine fifty . |
| 18 | ‘ Car number two ’ , the father went on , ‘ cost me one hundred and eighteen pounds and sold for seven hundred and sixty . |
| 19 | This is particularly important given that the explanation of the data given in Chapter 4 in terms of attention focusing relied on assumptions about memory being enhanced for some aspects of the stimuli and impaired for other aspects . |
| 20 | After the announcer had introduced the players and called for quiet , Jack Mason did an unusual thing . |
| 21 | The successful candidates largely represented business interests and called for closer ties with China . |
| 22 | Already equipped for this the fire brigade provided tarpaulins and arranged for more to be sent round . |
| 23 | The first American polar folk were well clothed in sewn animal skins and equipped for maritime life with kayaks ( skin boats ) , fish-hooks , harpoons of bone and ivory , bows and arrows . |
| 24 | All the slight injuries happened at roundabouts on Northgate , Bondgate , Parkgate and North Road Mr Graham Hamilton , of Darlington Freewheelers , said car drivers were often to blame for bike accidents and called for new measures to raise awareness . |
| 25 | Graham Hamilton , of Darlington Freewheelers , said car drivers were often to blame for accidents and called for new measures to raise awareness . |
| 26 | In the sky Re made the stars and placed for eternal life . |
| 27 | The budget totalled 23,987 million Djibouti francs and provided for higher social services expenditure . |
| 28 | The European Communities ( EC ) expressed concern on Nov. 4 at " irregularities " surrounding the elections and called for peaceful dialogue . |
| 29 | For this reason it is not good practice to acquire high concentration and dilute them on site for use as stock concentrates and stored for further dilution at the point of use . |
| 30 | They had a second round of drinks and talked for another twenty minutes . |