Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Review of neurology department registries found 129 outpatient records ; 24 met the criteria for probable Alzheimer 's disease and 20 of these noted admission(s) to psychiatric hospital . |
| 2 | Our aim was to determine whether our authors met the criteria for any of these forms of psychosis and , if so , to ascertain in each case which ‘ diagnosis ’ provided the best description . |
| 3 | So they also met the specifications for aerobatic kites . |
| 4 | Tudhoe St Charles primary school won four of the six events in the last cross-country race of the season for youngsters from Spennymoor and Ferryhill , and shared the honours for two other events with Rosa Street school . |
| 5 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 6 | He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
| 7 | We sold the shoes for industrial users and for farmers . |
| 8 | They accumulated capital , laid the foundations for industrial manufacture , factory production and the system of wage labour , all of which were essential components of capitalism . |
| 9 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 10 | Leading a protest outside the Scottish Office , Campbell Christie , the Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary , said : ‘ It 's time the Government took a lead in addressing the unemployment crisis and laid the foundations for long-term sustainable economic growth . ’ |
| 11 | Keynes was influential in persuading King 's to make him a fellow , despite his criticisms of Keynes 's A Treatise on Probability ( 1921 ) culminating in his ‘ Truth and Probability ’ ( 1926 ) , the classic paper that laid the foundations for modern subjective interpretations of probability and related theories of games and decision making . |
| 12 | Take , for example , the frontier role of American agriculture which laid the foundations for much of the country 's prosperity . |
| 13 | Churchill 's Iron Curtain speech in March 1946 at Fulton , Missouri , and Montgomery 's discussions in September with the American Joint Chiefs of Staff , on the Potomac river in the yacht Sequoia , articulated the threat and laid the foundations for Anglo-American cooperation in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 14 | Starting from scratch in July 1945 , the Government had embarked on a huge legislative programme and laid the foundations for another big instalment in 1946–7 . |
| 15 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |
| 16 | Suburban sanctuaries often became the foci for further urban growth . |
| 17 | He also attacked the provisions for automatic disqualification . |
| 18 | These developments greatly expanded the opportunities for political patronage , enabling the government to reward an increasing number of its followers both outside and inside Parliament with offices , pensions , or just straightforward bribes . |
| 19 | He suspended the sentences for three years , ordering that the suspension will not operate until repayment of £1,080 is made to the firms which had suffered loss . |
| 20 | The employers learned of the letters and summarily dismissed the employees for gross misconduct . |
| 21 | Mildred Blandy , mother of the present owner , lovingly supervised the gardens for many years and introduced many plants , many of them ( such as Proteas ) from South Africa . |
| 22 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
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| 24 | The parliamentary opposition defeated the plans for military reform which were proposed in 1867 , with the result that the army remained well below the level which it needed to confront the newly enlarged and well-armed Prussian state . |
| 25 | Her uncle , Mr Eustace Saddoo , of Ayton Grove , Manchester , condemned the bombers for callous lack of ‘ consideration for their own humanity and flesh ’ . |
| 26 | Goibniu studied the parchments for some time , seeing that there was an elaborate circlet of gold for Flame if she became Inchbad 's Queen , studded with firestones which would be mined from Fael-Inis 's Fire Mountains . |
| 27 | While this deduction was logical , it ignored the repercussions for American prestige and for the authority for the UN for the unification of Korea on a communist basis . |
| 28 | So the HARPY search space fulfilled the conditions for successful pruning . |
| 29 | This patient fulfilled the criteria for toxic shock syndrome . |
| 30 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |