Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods . |
| 2 | Thousands of commuters are facing delays and cancellations after British Rail maintenance staff voted for a series of twenty four hour strikes ; they 're protesting at B R's plans to close three maintenance depots . |
| 3 | ‘ What we have to do is develop the investment research capability designed for the private client . |
| 4 | Actress Jane Seymour posed for a 40th birthday article with husband David Flynn and their children in March 1991 . |
| 5 | DAMON Hill aims for a hat-trick of victories in today 's Italian Grand Prix at Monza — and keep Williams team-mate Alain Prost waiting for the world championship crown . |
| 6 | Holding a press conference in Gaborone on Jan. 26 during a visit to Botswana , Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) president Zephania Mothopeng called for the total elimination of apartheid through armed struggle , and rejected de Klerk 's reformist measures . |
| 7 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 8 | Careers adviser Kate Hargreaves opted for the greater job satisfaction of running a small organisation rather than having a more senior position in a large company . |
| 9 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 10 | We restricted our flow cytometric analysis to the determination of DNA ploidy because increased amounts of nuclear fragments after enzymatic digestion reduce the accuracy of cell cycle analysis accounting for the relatively poor correlation between proliferative activity in unfixed compared with paraffin embedded material . |
| 11 | During 1484 he and his fellow goldsmith Thomas Wood paid for the insertion of a bay window bearing their arms in the eastern wall of the Hall . |
| 12 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 13 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 14 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 15 | The League had decided to keep that Saturday clear to help national coach Andy Roxburgh prepare for the match . |
| 16 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 17 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 18 | It is a spacious drive , clearly an upper-class area , with a coach passing pedestrians dressed for a crisp spring day . |
| 19 | Law Society rules provide for the way client money held by a solicitor should be accounted for , and the rules currently require solicitors to submit an annual accountant 's report . |
| 20 | Dickens Data Systems Inc has picked up Data General Corp 's Clariion storage system to distribute for the IBM RS/6000 servers it resells to US VARs . |
| 21 | Barry Fry 's sacking leaves Barnet boss Stan Flashman looking for a manager . |
| 22 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 23 | This year 's freeze , the first reasonable winter conditions in years , tempted Mick , a trained geologist , to ferret around in his stock of Ordnance Survey maps looking for the word ‘ waterfall ’ . |
| 24 | Currently , a Home Office grant pays for the schemes ' managers and co-ordinators . |
| 25 | He had read a file on Stepan and Ilya Holovich that would have come with a dust coat out of a Home Office basement reserved for the histories of Aliens ( Naturalized ) . |
| 26 | City 's caretaker Tony Book prepares for the assault by bringing back Hinchcliffe at full-back . |
| 27 | The story was about two rival South London gangs building soapbox cars to enter for a race . |
| 28 | " That evening King Darzin sent for the chief taster and asked him whether the lettuces were ready . |
| 29 | Headland is buying Multisoft , a software group which makes business accounting systems designed for the personal computer market . |
| 30 | A report by the Social Security Research Consortium calls for the discretionary Social Fund to be abandoned because it is failing to help those who most need it . |