Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 2 | Given that for every person who attends live opera , at least 1,000 more buy and enjoy reading poetry , will the Minister change his priorities and become the first legislator to acknowledge the unacknowledged legislators of the world ? |
| 3 | If the husband did not fulfil his obligation to maintain , then on balance it was considered preferable for the wife to go out and earn than for the whole family to become chargeable to the Poor Law . |
| 4 | A further eight patients with villous adenomas but no evidence of malignant change were deemed unsuitable for the study and were given laser treatment only . |
| 5 | What acts may be considered usual for a firm of solicitors will change with the times . |
| 6 | Cults of fashion ; cults of exclusive dress ; the rigours bounding what is considered acceptable for the ball , the disco , the dinner party . |
| 7 | Generally , a nod of the head or a slight bow is considered acceptable for the non-Japanese . |
| 8 | Top two-year-old Sayyedati is also considered doubtful for the Fillies ' Mile . |
| 9 | If this is supposed impossible for the Westerner ( assuming he is not too old ! ) it must be because , and only because , he does not have access to information allowed the Chinese as children . |
| 10 | She was busy handing around cups and saucers , damask napkins , silver knives and cake forks , setting out the cake-stand , circulating plates of cucumber sandwiches , little patties and everything else considered appropriate for an afternoon tea in 1903 . |
| 11 | Interestingly , no similar safeguard has yet been considered appropriate for the video industry under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984 . |
| 12 | Four levels were considered appropriate for the arguments which follow in parts two , three and four . |
| 13 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |
| 14 | Ten years later the Attorney-General noted that judicial officers were chosen ‘ because considered unfit for the revenue branch of the service ’ . |
| 15 | It had looked promising for the tourists as openers David Boon and Mark Taylor batted confidently for the first hour to put on 38 . |
| 16 | Age may be classified according to any set of categories deemed useful for the purpose in hand . |
| 17 | Earlier , things had looked black for the visitors as Farnham moved into the lead after just 14 minutes . |
| 18 | After all the pressure , United looked good for a win , but then with just 5 minutes to go , they cracked . |
| 19 | It was a common business procedure to keep a single written copy of a deal until it was considered safe for the venture to be announced publicly . |
| 20 | The Gamay was rightly considered inferior for the production of Champagne when AOC laws were introduced in 1927 and its cultivation was restricted , but a generous transitory period of 18 years was allowed for growers heavily dependent on the vine , because the authorities recognised the financial burden of replanting with the authorised varieties . |
| 21 | Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company . |
| 22 | Qualities deemed necessary for a man of nobility and learning . |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century incorporation of utility and railway companies was also generally accompanied by other inducements and special powers deemed necessary for the success of the undertaking , such as rights of compulsory acquisition of land . |
| 24 | They were subsequently banned by law from 1734 until 1860 ; they were also banned between 1939 and 1958 as part of the measures deemed necessary for the prosecution of the Second World War . |
| 25 | In our consideration of the interview for scientific enquiry we must always remind ourselves that the survey is merely a particular tool for collecting information which is deemed relevant for the testing of a hypothesis which stems from theory . |
| 26 | It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died . |
| 27 | To avoid such effects it is considered necessary for the EC to engage in co-ordinated macro-economic policy of a Keynesian type . |
| 28 | ‘ It may well be , and I have no doubt it is so , that the courts , when exercising the parental power of the Crown , have , at any rate in legal theory , an unrestricted jurisdiction to do whatever is considered necessary for the welfare of a ward . |
| 29 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 30 | A mortgage valuation may be considered sufficient for a lending institution able to spread the risk across many loans , and which also has the benefit of the security of each borrower 's income as well as the property . |