Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
2 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
3 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
4 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
5 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
6 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
7 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
8 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
9 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
10 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
11 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
12 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
13 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
14 | Hammond , as well as carefully going through the various room assignments with Hunt , asked for a two-storey fire-proof building with attic and basement , and limited accommodation for servants and messengers . |
15 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
16 | He asked for a little restorative brandy , then saw a baker 's tray of delicious cakes being carried into the inn 's side-door . |
17 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
18 | Briefly , approximately 10 ng of purified protein A-fusion protein was preincubated in 20 µl of binding buffer ( 10 mM Hepes ( pH 7.9 ) , 60 mM KCl , 1 mM DTT , 1 mM EDTA , 0.25 mg/ml bovine serum albumin and 12% glycerol ) with appropriate competitor DNA for 5 min at room temperature , then 10 fmol ( approx. 20,000 cpm ) of 32 P-labelled , annealed octamer oligonucleotides were added and incubated for a further 20 min at room temperature . |
19 | After washing , 100 µl of anti-transferrin horseradish peroxidase conjugate in buffer was added at a dilution of 1 in 2000 and incubated for a further 60 minutes . |
20 | After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins . |
21 | After washing , 100 µl of substrate ( tetramethylbenzidine in DMSO ( 10 mg/ml ) dilutes 1 in 100 in 0.15 M citrate buffer and containing H 2 O 2 to a final concentration of 1.3 M/l ) were added and incubated for a further 15 minutes . |
22 | My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time . |
23 | These interconnections argued for a close symbiotic relationship between the two media . |
24 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
25 | Meanwhile , reflecting upon the record of the Labour government of 1945–51 and on the policies which its successor should pursue , he argued for a coherent socialist policy which would be freshly committed to ideals and be capable of realization . |
26 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
27 | The legislation also provided for a maximum personal income tax rate of 47 per cent and for corporation tax of 45 per cent . |
28 | In comparison the agrarian reform introduced by the Chilean Christian Democrats under Eduardo Frei ( 1964–70 ) provided for a maximum basic unit of only 80 hectares . |
29 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
30 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |