Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 2 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 3 | The failure of the Director of Public Prosecutions , QC , to instigate any criminal charges against the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of , by the inquest jury on November 29th 1991 at Middlesborough Coroners ’ Court . |
| 4 | invites the Bar Council to investigate the decision by the DPP not to prosecute the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of . |
| 5 | After Ken went , they drove off to Hornsey in the ambulance and stopped first for a Chinese meal — much against Lou 's wishes ; she does n't like Chinese — followed by a session at the pub . |
| 6 | I added that for the old tape , you know ? |
| 7 | Conditions in Kursk town seemed propitious for an anti-Bolshevik armed peasant uprising in October . |
| 8 | But misses at times when they seemed set for a good end let the Stranraer team in . |
| 9 | Everything seemed set for a happy and relaxed nine months . |
| 10 | A well-flighted right wing cross by Paul Raynor seemed perfect for the unmarked 6ft 4in player , but he headed over from seven yards . |
| 11 | His credentials seemed gold-plated for the new face of Toryism . |
| 12 | It seemed sad for the pregnant women , especially , to be in such a depressing house . |
| 13 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 14 | Printing a section heading as a node name of the semantic net also sometimes seemed inappropriate for the printed form . |
| 15 | The way now seemed open for a new era of reform , with Roosevelt at the height of his political powers . |
| 16 | It became imperative for the new latitudinarian archbishops to avoid countenancing the view that the Revolution was a victory for the intolerant Anglicanism of Sancroft 's and Proast 's type . |
| 17 | Visiting Sarajevo a fortnight ago , Osborne joined Smailovic for an impromptu performance in the devastated remains of the Skenderija Stadium . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc turned biblical for the virtual reality display it mounted at Siggraph last week : equipped with a headset , the wearer got swallowed up and landed in the belly of a fish . |
| 19 | But the outsider of three , trained near Thirsk by Andrew Stringer , made all for a runaway success over two well fancied raiders from fashionable southern yards . |
| 20 | The battalion became famous for a skilful defence of the Cerro Mala Cara carried out in February 1982 , when the combined forces of the US-trained army battalions , the " Ramon Belloso " and the " Atlacail " were forced into retreat : |
| 21 | ‘ It is well settled that certainly no person made responsible for a judicial decision can delegate his responsibility . |
| 22 | France 's leader , General de Gaulle , had his own aims in Germany however and ironically France , rather than Russia , became responsible for the early failure of the joint Allied administration . |
| 23 | Terry , 26 , worked undercover for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection . |
| 24 | It wearies me to imagine the preparations that will prove necessary , what dismantlings and shovellings , what wounds worked open for the sudden closure … |
| 25 | Farmers were encouraged to produce 'cash crops ’ — less land became available for the poor . |
| 26 | Boswell felt depressed for a brief time , and homesick : no letters had arrived for him , the cause of a little worry . |
| 27 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 28 | A LORRY driver who felt sorry for an unwanted calf stole animal feed to keep it alive . |
| 29 | No one in the crowd felt sorry for the young man who was condemned . |
| 30 | They felt sorry for the poor criminal … |