Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordionist Tommy Edmondson , 58 , of Rothbury , Northumberland , has received £100 for the signature tune of the BBC children 's cartoon Captain Pugwash , which he recorded 40 years ago and was paid £2 . |
| 2 | Since the report was printed the committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken at the end of this afternoon 's session for our colleagues involved in the dispute . |
| 3 | The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken at the end of congress on Monday to help these colleagues as well . |
| 4 | The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken on behalf of the Matthew trust fund at the end of the Wednesday morning session . |
| 5 | Sedgefield District Council , we hear , has given permission for a clairvoyancy evening at Spennymoor leisure centre . |
| 6 | The committee has given permission for the bucket collection to be taken on behalf of our colleagues at at the end of the Tuesday morning session . |
| 7 | The government has given permission for the plant to go ahead in the face of sustained opposition from environmentalists , church groups , and the local Lumad tribal people , to whom the mountain is sacred . |
| 8 | One of the men , Declan Derek Duffy , 19 , known as ‘ Wacko , ’ has tattooed on his left hand the initials INLA — standing for Irish National Liberation Army which has claimed responsibility for the murder of Sgt Michael Newman , 34 . |
| 9 | The Irish National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 10 | The UFF has claimed responsibility for the killing early today of father-of-six Michael Edwards , at his Finaghy home , while an IRA van bomb devastated the centre of Armagh . |
| 11 | The IRA has claimed responsibility for the car bomb which exploded near Downing Street this morning . |
| 12 | The French government has cancelled plans for the building of two of five dams planned for the upper Loire valley . |
| 13 | The imposition of a war economy has frozen plans for the development of manufacturing , and shortages of electricity , spare parts and labour have disrupted existing industries . |
| 14 | A STUDENT has won £1,200 for a collision injury in bed — making love to his girlfriend . |
| 15 | Teri ( 43 ) , has written stars for a number of newspapers , and is the author of Love Sex and Astrology . |
| 16 | British Rail has accepted responsibility for the accident and will be starting its own internal inquiry tomorrow . |
| 17 | DRA itself has done installers for the Transputer , 386/486 , MIPS , 68K , VAX and is looking at HP 's PA-RISC . |
| 18 | Family has adopted principles for the protection of children and dependent spouses which could apply equally to the unmarried . |
| 19 | She may hold the view that she has made provision for every eventuality and is therefore unlikely to experience any difficulties in combining work with parenthood . |
| 20 | No candidate may leave his place until an invigilator has made arrangements for the collection of his script . |
| 21 | The US has imposed quotas for the catching of sharks in American waters in the Atlantic , Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean . |
| 22 | One of the shocks of 1991 was the news that Mercedes is to stop production of MB-tracs next year and has ditched plans for a replacement . |
| 23 | Does not the hon. Gentleman recognise that opinion poll after opinion poll in Scotland has shown support for the quest of the Scottish Constitutional Convention for a Scottish Parliament ? |
| 24 | There is no virtue in several injections of insulin if the patient is well controlled on a single injection each day , but this state of affairs is unlikely to be the case in a patient who has had diabetes for a number of years and has little residual β-cell function . |
| 25 | Anyone who has advanced money for the payment of the employee debts which would have been preferential is subrogated to the rights of the employee . |
| 26 | Roth acknowledges that Oldman has opened doors for an actor like him . |
| 27 | Developers Foinavon has offered £5m for the purchase of the whole of the ground with the intention of developing the site as a giant supermarket . |
| 28 | Sistelcom general manager Jesus Prieto said that this will be the first time that a radio-paging service has used satellite for the transmission of messages . |
| 29 | The Tour has rested at Bordeaux many times , but this is the first time that the caravan has used Nogent-sur-Oise for the beginning of a day 's racing . |
| 30 | It has reiterated demands for the closure of all ex-Soviet nuclear facilities . |