Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The heavy Roman-emperor head with thinnish iron-grey hair brushed forward , the nose , broad and fleshy , and the mouth fallen in for lack of teeth , was not a comely picture . |
2 | A smiling Hannon simply said : ‘ The ground has come right for Assessor in the Doncaster Cup . ’ |
3 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
4 | The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress . |
5 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
6 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
7 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
8 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
9 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
10 | Vaccinations were recommended only for people at special risk . |
11 | Vaccinations were recommended only for people at special risk . |
12 | Bureaux are polled annually for suggestions for rewriting parts of the system and the IPG weights these and builds them into the plans . |
13 | And those 16 are all booked in for treatment during April , most this week . |
14 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
15 | The whole apparatus is collapsed down for introduction into and removal from the gall bladder via a 12 French introducer sheath . |
16 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
17 | The field artillery weapons with which the combatants entered the war in 1914 had been designed also for use in short-range battles . |
18 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
19 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
20 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
21 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |
22 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
23 | Urea formaldehyde foam used to be the most common and the cheapest method , but this is not recommended now for use in high exposure areas such as hillsides , or in tall buildings . |
24 | She therefore rents her newly acquired property during this period : ‘ My four-bedroom apartment can easily be let out for £1,500 per week gross , which , less Spanish tax and rental commission , works out at approximately £1,000 per week , which covers my community charges and management fees . ’ |
25 | Routine Guthrie testing has been carried out for phenylketonuria since the mid-1970s and testing for hypothyroidism since the mid-'80s . |
26 | Consultancy work in engineering geology Engineering geological consultancy work continues to be carried out for clients in the private and public sectors . |
27 | Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 . |
28 | Checks are carried out for retention of information relating to files which are to be offlined , those which have been offlined and those which are to be restored from the offline media . |
29 | The earlier test will be considered here for reasons of comparison and because it still provides the basis of the remoteness test in some other torts . |
30 | These can be booked exclusively for groups during the week for a small charge . |