Example sentences of "and [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Father and daughter were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital and treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 32 | A cervical smear may be taken , which is specially stained in the laboratory ( the Papanicolaou smear ) and examined for evidence of early cancer of the cervix . |
| 33 | I was told by Mary Dines , former General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants , that , in the past , ‘ it was a fairly frequent occurrence that these young girls , straight from their grandmothers ' houses , would be taken to Holloway prison , their pubic hair shaved off , and examined for VD . ’ |
| 34 | For this , and any other experimental situation , a small test area should be cleaned first and examined for efficiency and surface damage before proceeding . |
| 35 | For example , a quite recent book of advanced readings , entitled The Nature of Creativity , edited by a very prominent cognitive psychologist , and intended for researchers in the area , makes absolutely no reference to the topic ! |
| 36 | After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working . |
| 37 | All the software is written in C and intended for use with Unix based servers , MS-DOS , Windows 3.0 and Motif . |
| 38 | For this purpose a ‘ ship ’ is defined as ‘ Any structure , whether completed or in the course of completion , launched and intended for use in navigation as a ship or a part of a ship ’ — Section 12 Merchant Shipping Act 1979 . |
| 39 | Enclosed is a copy of the new ACE Booklist 1991–2 , which lists all our consumer titles and intended for distribution to members of the public . |
| 40 | In the 27th minute Kamara , on loan from Luton , found Hendrie and squared for Wilkinson to put in a fierce shot which Baker touched over the bar . |
| 41 | Since World War II , especially , technology-inspired governments have tended to regard the oceans virtually as a bottomless source of food for the world 's billions , and of oil and minerals besides ; and the world 's great rivers are systematically ‘ harnessed ’ for hydro-electric power , and re-directed for irrigation and for transport . |
| 42 | Of the five painters who had signed the manifesto only Severini , who had been in Paris since 1905 , had any claim to be considered avant-garde , whereas the others were mostly working in a debased divisionist technique and relied for novelty on the rather obvious imagery of their subject-matter . |
| 43 | ( N.B. — these timings are based on a prototype LISP implementation running under PROLOG and are therefore unrepresentative of the current semantic analyser , which has been coded in C and optimised for efficiency . ) |
| 44 | The new five-speed automatic gearbox , designated ‘ W5A030 ’ and developed for Mercedes ' six-cylinder engines , is ingenious most of all for its simplicity . |
| 45 | The result is that ‘ international judicial assistance ’ now comprises well-established techniques and procedures for co-operation in civil and commercial proceedings , together with a very much more recent growth of international agreements , bilateral regional and multilateral , in which those techniques and procedures are extended and developed for use in the field of criminal investigations , prosecutions , and to trace and seize the proceeds of crimes . |
| 46 | Mr MacSharry collected his reward , the EC commissionership , and departed for Brussels , taking with him a big reputation . |
| 47 | Pablo Neruda , the unofficial Poet Laureate of Chile , and holder of the Stalin Prize , had pulled out , and departed for Cambridge a day earlier . |
| 48 | They are like heavy metal rock stars primped and primed for sex . |
| 49 | This is a suite of six programs , all with an artistic bent and designed for ages 5+ . |
| 50 | Varese and Vilaro are two designs from Sekers Verona Collection , a new range of seven classic damasks and stripes woven in 100% Trevira C.S. It is for use as a curtain material and designed for hotel bedrooms . |
| 51 | If you must give us presents , make sure they 're safe and sensible , and designed for pets . |
| 52 | ChemMod II for the Apple Macintosh is also available in a new release — this being fully ‘ System 7 compatible ’ and designed for use with all Macintosh IIs and for the new Macintosh Quadras . |
| 53 | Grammar is a series of four illustrated exercise books written for young learners and designed for use in the classroom and for homework . |
| 54 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 55 | Met with SEAD and interviewed for SEAD Newsletter and Radio Scotland . |
| 56 | There is also some evidence , but very limited indeed , that girls may prefer a less competitive and more collaborative style of working , so that classrooms which are resource based and organised for group working tend to be classrooms where girls thrive . |
| 57 | Thereafter , Leo 's relationship with his adopted country dipped to the point where he was charged with stealing a car , sentenced to six months and recommended for deportation . |
| 58 | Sentence : four years ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
| 59 | Sentence : two years and nine months ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
| 60 | Another called Toby and Bilbo and recommended for Primary 2 contained passages such as the following : ‘ Toby 's friends are coming up the path now . |