Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Example tasks are given for each skill in relation to a particular content area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 8 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It should be noted that liability is confined to " consumer goods " intended for private use in the course of a business . |
| 12 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( A similar way of finding the best power for transformation will be explained for median polishing in chapter 15 . ) |
| 15 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 16 | There was a small silence ; then Jennifer asked a question about one of the meetings listed for next week in the area . |
| 17 | Index figures are calculated for each artist in each succeeding year . |
| 18 | In addition Gen. Herminio Fuenmayor , the Director of Military Intelligence ( DIM ) , was dismissed for alleged involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 19 | It is certainly very unwise to use a form of contract designed for one jurisdiction in another , even though both have similar legal systems . |
| 20 | The station opened in 1933 , designed for continuing growth in passenger traffic . |
| 21 | Clay icons are classified as ‘ temporary ’ or ‘ occasional ’ and are not designed for permanent installation in temples . |
| 22 | The in-head sound from headphones is easily explained by the fact that almost all the programme material recorded or broadcast is designed for two-loud-speaker reproduction in which both ears receive the sounds from both loudspeakers . |
| 23 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
| 24 | Car 638 was rebuilt for one-man operation in 1969 , but was found unsuitable and subsequently scrapped . |
| 25 | It seeks to compare the benefits originally claimed for general management in the various official statements concerning the acceptance of the Griffiths Report with the actual impact at Regional and District levels within the NHS . |
| 26 | Stewart 's chequered career began on the other side of the law in Sydney Australia where he was a police officer … he was even decorated for outstanding bravery in the course of duty . |
| 27 | An example would be when an extra record is added for each project in a company every day . |
| 28 | The MIT-originated Sparcle CPU project described at Hot Chips ( UX No 395 ) proved to be an old LSI single-execution 40MHz Sparc CPU simplified for fine-grain multi-processing in a highly parallel MIT system called Alewife . |
| 29 | About 600 members of the armed forces were discharged for alleged involvement in the coup attempt . |
| 30 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |