Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 2 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 3 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 4 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 5 | The development costs of Ariane accounted for 30 per cent of French space spending between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 6 | The south east of England accounted for 58 per cent of all voluntary liquidations with 8,115 up from 7,715 in 1991 . |
| 7 | Planned for this year are centres in Bratislava , Bucharest , Moscow , Riga , Sofia , Talinn , Vilnius and Zagreb , with one in the Albanian capital of Tirana scheduled for 1994 . |
| 8 | First performed in 1946 this series of concerts ran for 37 years , earning an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 9 | Some simply washed in the pool of water meant for each eagle , dipping their heads and wings in and letting the water run down their backs . |
| 10 | You need a different size of hole saw for each size of hole : you can buy multiple hole saws which have ‘ nests ’ of different sizes . |
| 11 | In October 1685 Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes , under which the protestants of France had for ninety years enjoyed freedom of worship and full civil rights . |
| 12 | For the hearing a posse of lawyers appeared for both sides , but Thomas , at the time of his deepest depression over the outcome of the suit , comforted himself that he had secured the best lawyers that money could buy before his opponents had managed to secure them . |
| 13 | Ordinarily , there would be very few behaviour problems with the dogs of Barbados , even if we were viewing the scene with the rose-tinted spectacles of tourists arrived for two weeks of beaching , sightseeing and nightclubbing ! |
| 14 | Through creative expression they aim to educate , inspire and entertain which is exactly why Daughters of Oshun chose For Coloured Girls … as it shows positively how far Black women have come . |
| 15 | Law codes are a major source for the Anglo-Saxon period , and those which Archbishop Wulfstan of York wrote for Æthelred and Cnut are among the most extensive . |
| 16 | The good people of Maine opted for another candidate . |
| 17 | If such attitudes are now considered contemptible , it should be remembered that the policy of segregation continued for most of the twentieth century and many people still believe today that mentally handicapped people should be isolated and prevented from having children , even though the hereditary risks are low and can , in most cases , be discounted . |
| 18 | The French boycott of the Council of Ministers lasted for seven months . |
| 19 | The sensitivities of fitness to changes in survival and fertility at different ages are explained in Box 1 , and illustrated by Fig. 1 , which is based on data from lines of Drosophila selected for early or late reproduction . |
| 20 | Leaders of the Serbian province of Kosovo pressed for independent membership of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and for recognition by the international community . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Supply asked for any kind of bone except the backbone of a kipper . |
| 22 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |
| 23 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |