Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [conj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Micky , you 've said that for a fortnight , and there 's no sign of it happening . |
| 2 | I do not rightly understand how the medical men could not save him after the accident since you say the cut seemed small and did not appear to trouble him but I have heard that for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pin-prick and that a cut where there is manure about can have this effect if not noticed . |
| 3 | They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea . |
| 4 | I have said that for a student to make a truth claim , whether original or not , the student has to own it . |
| 5 | We have seen that for a reaction to be spontaneous must be positive . |
| 6 | As you will see from the heading to this minute , I have decided that for the time being we are ‘ the Strategy Unit ’ . |
| 7 | Would the alleged consequence have occurred but for the negligent cause . |
| 8 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 9 | Indeed , the APU results have shown that for a national sample of pupils ( c ) is harder than ( a ) , which is harder than ( b ) . |
| 10 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |
| 11 | None of the parts of ploughs from the period have survived except for the soil stain from a wooden object in a recently excavated , and unusual , grave at Sutton Hoo which has been interpreted as representing a complete ard-type plough . |
| 12 | For example , Bradley et al. ( 1987a ) have suggested that for the last 30–40 years there has been a general decrease in precipitation in low-latitudes of the northern hemisphere which are in accord with General Circulation Model ( GCM ) predictions based on doubled carbon dioxide levels . |