Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jazz scene confirmed his liking for youthful excitement and the importance that his student friends now had in his life is registered in a series of portraits . |
| 2 | The PUSD assembly declared its support for a state-regulated market economy and democratic pluralism . |
| 3 | Gardens and the confined performance space of noh theatre refined his gifts for composition . |
| 4 | The new meeting house opened its doors for worship almost exactly a year later ; it had cost £3,366 . |
| 5 | The Night Superintendent clapped her hands for silence . |
| 6 | And when we decided intensive veg and livestock did not mix , our gentleman farmer/neighbour bred our pests for us . |
| 7 | Eagle Star launched it strategy for the older market last April , with a range of special policies sold by a mature salesforce . |
| 8 | EMPLOYEES of Courtaulds Fibres , Canada , gathered for a Christmas party in December , just weeks after the viscose rayon plant closed its doors for the last time . |
| 9 | Erm well that base budget is rather higher than we are expecting and the time when , the policy committee set its targets for each of the service committees . |
| 10 | Only one control tissue fulfilled our criteria for positivity . |
| 11 | Ibsen 's Peer Gynt compared his quest for identity to the process of peeling layers off an onion ; but after shedding all the ‘ false selves ’ , he found that there was nothing inside , no ‘ core ’ . |
| 12 | Cable & Wireless Plc said its results for the year to March 31 will show an exceptional charge of £84m and exceptional gains totalling £178m to comply with new accounting standards — there will be exceptional profits of £60m from exercise of warrants in Hong Kong and of some £118m from the sale of 20% of Mercury Communications Ltd to BCE Inc ; the charge will cover its interest in undersea cable systems — it has also decided to reduce the book life of its digital submarine cable assets to 15 years from 25 , which will lead to an additional £12m depreciation charge each year . |
| 13 | The left-arm spinner made his debut for the Welsh county against Oxford University in The Parks . |
| 14 | The RMT executive committee gave its approval for 70,000 railway members to be balloted on 4 and 5 March over whether they will support strike action , the spokesman said . |
| 15 | The youth leader conveyed her thanks for the re-covering of the snooker table . |
| 16 | But today the man who wants to be next the Health Secretary did his bit for the local campaign . |
| 17 | South Tees Community and Mental Health Care launched its application for NHS trust status on Tuesday at West Lane Hospital , Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | When he failed to muster enough backing for a secret ballot Pawar announced his support for Rao who was then unanimously elected as leader on June 20. nation |
| 19 | I had seen that look somewhere before , and memory suggested two pictures : one was from an old history book and showed Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine — ‘ The Queen went forth , stately and calm ’ ; , the other ( ‘ Tales from over the Border ’ ) showed a beautiful girl withdrawing modestly while a Highland chief petitioned her father for her hand in marriage . |
| 20 | But , given the low base from which the Liberal Democrat party began its struggle for recognition , he has achieved a great deal . |
| 21 | Peter Hall was said to have left the Dundee-based firm ‘ entirely voluntarily ’ and a company spokesman said his reasons for going were ‘ private ’ . |
| 22 | A certain Spitfire historian set his alarm for six o'clock on Sunday . |
| 23 | My mother 's business success had continued and the bungalow was in the throes of an ongoing transformation that would only end some five years later , when the Cliff Top Country House Hotel opened its register for bookings . |