Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 2 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 3 | A meeting has been arranged for 30th September in the Village Hall when a neighbourhood watch will be set up for Belmont Road area . |
| 4 | Several methods of pedestrian flow and journey data collection were considered and 10 pre-Christmas shopping days of automated photographic data were gathered for one street in Nottingham city centre in a pilot study to test collection and interpretation procedures . |
| 5 | Example tasks are given for each skill in relation to a particular content area . |
| 6 | Awards are given for outstanding achievement in the protection and enhancement of the architectural and natural heritage , the improvement of the environment and the encouragement of high standards of architecture in town and country planning throughout Europe . |
| 7 | A number of different dates are given for these events in Molla Husrev 's career by various authors , both early and late . |
| 8 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 9 | To progress the analysis to the level at which activities could be identified , a root definition was developed for each sub-system in turn , and a second-level conceptual model constructed . |
| 10 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 11 | Four HNC trainees were recruited and training plans developed for offshore duties in the instrumentation field . |
| 12 | The five examples outlined above illustrate the proliferation of schemes and courses which have been developed for unemployed people in the 1980s . |
| 13 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 14 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 15 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 16 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 17 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 18 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 19 | A screening programme for high blood pressure and related risks , begun in 1968 and sustained for 21 years in a defined community , gave us an opportunity to study long term management of high blood pressure in young adults in a social context , with data collected prospectively on originally unsuspected associations . |
| 20 | We had flown for thirty hours in the fortnight . |
| 21 | Equal amounts of cell membrane protein from normal and carcinoma tissue were boiled for five minutes in SDS sample buffer and analysed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis acording to Laemmli with 7% resolving gels . |
| 22 | The coded long term culture pellets were resuspended in 100 µl of TE ( 10 mM Tris ; 0.1 mM EDTA pH 8.8 ) then boiled for 20 minutes in 1.5 ml screw capped tubes to release microbial DNA . |
| 23 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |
| 24 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 25 | It should be noted that liability is confined to " consumer goods " intended for private use in the course of a business . |
| 26 | The scheme is intended for post-16 students in any language ( including English ) , and teachers are encouraged to design courses in the practical predominantly oral use of language . |
| 27 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 28 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 29 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 30 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |