Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Adult Education Regulations of 1924 , all existing sixteen Districts of the WEA became eligible for direct , specific grant-aid from the Board of Education and the status of the WEA as an integral part of the national framework in a putative educational system was recognised . |
| 2 | On coming down Eyre taught English for two years at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Blackburn , where Russel Harty was one of his pupils . |
| 3 | Scott stood motionless for long moments , sucking in deep lungfuls of air . |
| 4 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 5 | Andre Agassi uses Kevlar for main strings and natural gut for crosses . |
| 6 | The Italians in determined mood as Aberdeen get ready for European showdown . |
| 7 | Those deposits which the Bank of England considers important for these purposes are known as eligible liabilities . |
| 8 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 9 | Pascoe arrived prepared for more questions about his trip to the second floor and provided the wording of his note to Mona : ‘ Mona . |
| 10 | In the case of ordering YAC probes , a modified distance measure was used in which the influence of each cosmid clone c was weighted in proportion to 1/n c , where n c is the number of YAC probes positive for that cosmid clone . |
| 11 | At the start of the second half Portsmouth looked good for another goal … |
| 12 | At the start of the second half Portsmouth looked good for another goal … |
| 13 | Many of Johnson 's readers wished to know what kind of reading Dr Johnson thought suitable for young ladies , and it transpired , to much amusement , that he had given young Miss McQueen an arithmetic . |
| 14 | In his initial phase of competition , Hunter remained undefeated for eighteen months . |
| 15 | ( Gav looked defensive for all of a micro-second , a concession my lacerated self-respect fell upon with all the pathetic desperation of a humiliatingly defeated politician pointing out that well , things can only get better . ) |
| 16 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 17 | Areas in Britain considered prospective for Irish-style mineralisation all contain early Carboniferous sediments in extensional , half-graben basins bounded by syn-depositional faults . |
| 18 | After taking over the Tramways Department following the sudden death of Lancaster , Charles Furness became responsible for several innovations . |
| 19 | Emma Robinson and Lisburn 's Joanne Logan had dead-heated for third place , with another pretty young Lisburn swimmer , Ruth Hill , fifth , only one-hundredth of a second back . |
| 20 | The details of diplomatic manoeuvring — what messages other Arabs took from Washington to Baghdad , what the Russians did , how the American chargé d'affaires in Baghdad kept busy for five months — remain unknown . |
| 21 | Chris Novoselic rolled a cigarette with the deliberate , weary motions of a man three times his age , while Dave Grohl sat motionless for ten minutes with a towel over his head , every now and again moaning , ‘ I think I 'm about to die ’ . |
| 22 | Twomey sat silent for all the two hundred miles of road , holding his cat under his good arm . |
| 23 | Mr James Wray held firm for Labour in Glasgow Provan . |