Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thirties was the decade when smart hostesses took to serving a great many dishes iced or frozen simply for the originality of the idea . |
| 2 | William Green came to live in Ambleside in 1800 , when he retired from surveying and map making , and painted there for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 4 | In this context , this means used and disclosed only for the purposes for which it is compiled , or for which authority is given , or with the donor 's consent or for certain other limited purposes . |
| 5 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 6 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 7 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |
| 8 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 9 | A communiqué issued on June 3 described existing measures to reduce Third-World debt as inadequate , and called instead for a " positive approach , and not punitive measures , to the problems of arrears with multilateral financial institutions " . |
| 10 | The ANC for its part responded that it regarded the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) as the private army of the NP and called instead for the integration of MK and the SADF into a new national army . |
| 11 | The SPD , whose leader Björn Engholm had offered to co-operate with the government on " specific issues " , countered Kohl 's proposal by insisting that a clear strategy and firm proposals were necessary before such talks could be worthwhile , and called notably for an extension of the temporary 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax [ see p. 38109 ; pp. 38297-98 ] . |
| 12 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 13 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 14 | Of the six local children cast and trained especially for the production , eight-year-old Eve Macdonald makes a cute Gretl . |
| 15 | Then he suddenly remembered Sophia Ainger 's sister , the rather odd young woman he had met in Bloomsbury that evening and taken out for a drink . |
| 16 | When anything important happens you 're stunned , and thrown out for a while , and then you recover … |
| 17 | This was possible because someone can be tried once and convicted once for every separate offence he commits and an offence under section 14 is committed every time someone reads the brochure — since a false statement is made every time it is communicated to someone . |
| 18 | The Mercedes turned towards the runway and headed straight for a trim white and red plane that stood waiting . |
| 19 | In the interval , Miss Honey left the classroom and headed straight for the Headmistress 's study . |
| 20 | They arrived at Alghero a little before five and headed straight for the home of Guido 's friends . |
| 21 | The blonde girl nodded and headed swiftly for the stairs . |
| 22 | Lewis drove and hooked stylishly for an hour when opportunity offered , before Cairns showed the close fieldsmen how to do it by taking a superb diving catch at gully . |