Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 2 | Whereas the Chinese would take only clear amber and the Dutch had a preference for it , the Russians went for cloudy amber . |
| 3 | Insofar as operational , organisational and administrative matters affecting safety are concerned , the improvements looked for after TMI relate mainly to the selection of operators and the handling of any emergency . |
| 4 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |
| 5 | The Labour Party favoured a major role for earnings-related state pension provision while the Conservatives wished for broad occupational coverage and a residual second-tier state pension , in which many employed women would have found themselves . |
| 6 | The officials asked for further studies , which were reported to the department on 7 October . |
| 7 | The attacks lasted for 40 minutes , from the IP to after two runs on the target . |
| 8 | People asked her , significantly in that suffragette period , if the initials stood for New Women 's Movement . |
| 9 | For good measure , and to show the regime 's non-Kurdish opponents that they are not trading democracy for autonomy , the Kurds asked for free elections throughout the country . |
| 10 | The Poles replied that the design was based on a painting by the Dutch artist Van Der Block dating from about 1608 , that the original painting hung in the Danzig Main Town Hall in a room which the Nazis used for frequent social and political meetings . |
| 11 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 12 | Some of the collisions lasted for millions of years before the land was finally in place . |
| 13 | The schools of the established Church banned the teaching of writing for this kind of reason as much as the Methodists did for sabbatarian ones . |
| 14 | But working naturalists were interested in the whole range of exotic species , not just big game , while the radicals pushed for more research and public access to the zoo . |
| 15 | Most of the courses lasted for 6 hours ( one day ) or 12 hours ( two days ) but over the past 5 or 6 years there had been an increase in the number of shorter courses . |
| 16 | The chronicler says that when the men summoned for military service appeared they soon disbanded because the king and the citizens of London were not present . |
| 17 | The Spartans went for two points only to see the attempt fail and the score remained 13–12 . |
| 18 | Subsequently , 5 units of Dra I were added and the samples incubated for 10 min at 37°C . |