Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 2 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 3 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 4 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 5 | But it would be ala I think people would be alarmed if turn out for central government dropped to forty percent . |
| 6 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |
| 7 | The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons described docking as ‘ an unjustified mutilation ’ unless carried out for medical reasons . |
| 8 | The delegates added a clause saying : ‘ While watching out for Rightist deviations , we must guard mainly against Leftist deviations . ’ |
| 9 | It has proved particularly useful for the management of high risk patients such as the medically unfit , frail and elderly in whom cholecystectomy is associated with mortality rates of 10% , or higher when carried out for acute complications . |
| 10 | ( By the ‘ original pattern ’ I mean the pattern as designed for single bed knitting , not as punched out for double jacquard ; the double jacquard card is of course moving on at every row . ) |
| 11 | When it comes to plants , micro-organisms and tissue culture systems , the remedy picture as worked out for human patients is wholly inappropriate , and experiments have to be conducted on the basis of trial and error to see if particular remedies have an effect on particular plants or micro-organisms . |
| 12 | Ideally tanks should be as large as is possible when setting up for large fish ( not only cichlids ) . |