Example sentences of "and [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |
| 2 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 3 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 4 | The Orangemen could even talk to those trees ( the ones removed and replanted for the Papal visit in 1982 about which the parks department is still very sensitive and reluctant to comment ) on the basis that plants respond to music . |
| 5 | Apparently it is too old-fashioned and cluttered for the great master to have had anything to do with it — despite the fact that Lord Burlington , the aristocratic architect , was convinced of his having designed it . |
| 6 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 7 | The phone numbers and addressed for the remaining divisions are listed below , should you be interested in other Olympus products . |
| 8 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 9 | She bent quickly to kiss her father , then let herself out into the shadowy hall , and made for the wide , oak-panelled stairs . |
| 10 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 11 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 12 | Exulting in her escape , she closed the outer door behind her and made for the great outdoors like a child let out of school . |
| 13 | Laughing aloud , she took to her heels , and made for the outer doors . |
| 14 | So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went . |
| 15 | She picked up her things again and made for the dim daylight outside , rather relieved it was n't a bright day . |
| 16 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 17 | During their student days both Lorraine and Margaret were awarded Heriot-Watt Blues and selected for the Scottish Universities side . |
| 18 | The ratio between the integrated peak areas for each subunit was determined and corrected for the molecular mass of each subunit . |
| 19 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 20 | The old red brick police station was the site of the village lock-up until 1849 , when it was enlarged and used for the monthly petty sessions until 1899 . |
| 21 | The diagrams which follow show the instruments which are selected and used for the desired performance . |
| 22 | During this examination , three to four samples of flat rectal mucosa were taken from an area 10–15 cm from the anal verge and used for the proliferative studies described below . |
| 23 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |
| 24 | ‘ I should have guessed , ’ Werner replied , and reached for the numerical keys . |
| 25 | When the plenum opened on March 12 , the MPRP general secretary Jambyn Batmönh announced his resignation and that of the seven-member politburo and called for the complete separation of the party and state , saying that the party would henceforth " prove its leading role in the society not constitutionally but with its deeds for happy future [ sic ] of the Mongolian people " . |
| 26 | In freezing temperatures and light snowfall , the enthusiastic and emotional crowd in Sofia heard Bulgaria 's most radical demands so far and called for the ousted leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , to stand trial for fraud and mismanagement . |
| 27 | In a tightly-argued four page document , AoI said it must be accepted that coal is not on its way out and called for the disbanded Energy Select Committee to be resurrected immediately . |
| 28 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 29 | Angry Israelis blocked Jerusalem 's main street and called for the prime minister Yitzhak Rabin , to resign . |
| 30 | Unreality supervened again as Argentina fired its President Galtieri and called for the immediate withdrawal of British forces . |