Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During gastroscopy , the folds of Kerckring are assessed for any reduction and distal duodenal biopsy specimens are taken in all patients for histological examination to look for villous atrophy . |
| 2 | Additional components beside fractions TFIIIB and TFIIIC are needed for efficient pol III transcription |
| 3 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE are searching for financial backers for an extension to the new £500,000 William Clarke stand , at Trent Bridge . |
| 4 | Paul Hailwood ( 72 ) and Tony Foster ( 61 ) led Eccleston to a daunting 236–6 in 40 overs and despite 70 from Steve Tickle , Orrell were dismissed for 171 . |
| 5 | MIDDLESBROUGH Reserves should have their best crowd of the season if the Central League game with Mansfield is rearranged for next Thursday night striker Bernie Slaven and midfield player Willie Falconer are in line for comebacks . |
| 6 | One gets the impression that Picasso is striving for some ultimate pictorial truth , some absolute representation of reality . |
| 7 | PVG is looking for like-minded parties . |
| 8 | Pam Tatlow is standing for Labour in Cheltenham at the General Election . |
| 9 | Faldo is asking for less hype and a return to the days when the biennial encounter was a friendly , usually won by the Americans . |
| 10 | On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments . |
| 11 | ‘ Prince Edward is destined for greater things , ’ Joan said with a tactlessness rare in her and which she was to regret . |
| 12 | The coronation oath of Edgar is recorded for 973 : he swore first " that God 's Church and all Christian people of my realm shall enjoy true peace ; second , that I forbid to all ranks of men robbery and all wrongful deeds ; third , that I urge and command justice and mercy in all judgements " — pious words , perhaps , but solemn and binding , and made at the bidding of Archbishop Dunstan and laid on the altar at Bath . |
| 13 | Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years . |
| 14 | ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ? |
| 15 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 16 | The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops . |
| 17 | Three years ago , two art historians , Francesca Capelletti and Laura Testa , published an article which shows that Caravaggio was paid for this ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ in 1602 by one Ciriaco Mattei ; that the painting descended in the same family until 1802 , when it was bought , together with other pictures , by the Scottish Hamilton Nisbet family , who sold it again in Dodwell 's rooms in Edinburgh in 1921 . |
| 18 | Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies . |
| 19 | Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal . |
| 20 | David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit . |
| 21 | David was trained for christian service at the Scottish Baptist College and at the BTI . |
| 22 | In the March 1990 general election ZANU-PF won 116 of the House of Assembly 's elective seats and Mugabe was re-elected for another term as President . |
| 23 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 24 | The tone of the descriptions and conversations of Mr Morgan of Abercorran House and his curiously assorted friends ( Aurelius , Mr Torrance and Mr Stodham ) is cheerfully loving in its recall of the London commons and the Wiltshire and Welsh countryside upon which Edward was to draw for much inner satisfaction throughout his adult life . |
| 25 | Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults . |
| 26 | England are braced for tough test |
| 27 | In this regard , it is intriguing to note that both Glu-248 and Glu-251 of c-Jun are required for optimal phosphorylation efficiency by the DNA-PK . |
| 28 | In half an hour , in eight overs , Hampshire were dismissed for 15 runs , their last scoring item being four byes . |
| 29 | Because SOEs were created for multiple reasons , most faced conflicting pressures from various constituencies and could not reconcile multiple , and conflicting , objectives . |
| 30 | But that proved to be more than enough as Amlwch were dismissed for 72 despite 31 from Jim Harrison . |