Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever a fast is undertaken for selfish ends it must be resisted . |
| 2 | Besides those grants taken out of context or distorted , the endowment was blamed for many things it had nothing to do with . |
| 3 | Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee . |
| 4 | If charges are made for certain services they are usually nominal and have little impact on the level of services offered . |
| 5 | But then grandiose claims are made for most things you can buy connected with mountaineering . |
| 6 | When it is not being used for these purposes it is available for use by other organisations . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ There are so many products that can be used for intoxicating purposes it would be impossible to lock them all away . |
| 8 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 9 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 10 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 11 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 12 | Keeping the building 's historic aspect was not always achieved and as most of the barns were converted for residential purposes it was necessary to pay careful attention to planning and design to retain the original character , and this was not always done . |
| 13 | If they worked for if six men worked for two hours they 'd work |
| 14 | ‘ A pre-agreed percentage is deducted for those pensioners it is felt would not have travelled if the fare had not been free . ’ |
| 15 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 16 | If the exchange suspects that a trade has been effected for improper purposes it must investigate this . |
| 17 | That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see . |
| 18 | By the time she has budgeted for these basics she has £50 left for the six-week holiday . |
| 19 | but by the time they 've stood for five minutes they are . |
| 20 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 21 | It should at present , therefore , be reserved for those cases I outlined , where long-term anticoagulation is indicated . |
| 22 | Holders of non-British passports and those issued outside the UK should check with their own embassy with regard to any special permits or visas required for all countries they will be visiting or passing through . |
| 23 | But if you 're like me moving to a , a house that 's been established for some years you 'll probably find there 's only a minimum of power points because let's face it over the years the use of electrical apparatus have become more and more has n't it ? |