Example sentences of "come [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 2 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 3 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 4 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 5 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 6 | The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] . |
| 7 | He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in . |
| 8 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |
| 9 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 10 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 11 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 12 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 13 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 14 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 16 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 17 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 18 | If he was going anywhere I thought he would have come here for Premier League football . |
| 19 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 20 | Rozario on the near post Chettle also has come forward for this kick and it goes in towards that near post area where Oldfield takes no chances . |
| 21 | He came on for one match at least . |
| 22 | Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half . |
| 23 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 24 | Unlike NATO , which came together for collective defence , the European Community includes neutral Ireland and may soon include neutral Sweden and Austria too . |
| 25 | Thus employers came together for mutual support since labour 's ( political ) goals posed a threat not merely to individual employers but collectively to employers as a class . |
| 26 | The diet , of bread and butter and tea for breakfast , bread and butter and tea for tea , milk for supper , and a very limited variety of items for dinner , came in for adverse comment . |
| 27 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 28 | Maggie 's brooch , her dress , her cloche , came in for similar praise . |
| 29 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 30 | The contrasts between the synoptic gospels ( Matthew , Mark and Luke ) and the fourth gospel , between the various letters ascribed to Paul , and between Paul 's theology and that of other leaders in the primitive church , all now came in for serious consideration . |