Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investment also called for the extension of some existing warrants for two years — they now expire in 1996 . |
| 2 | He said that the Queen eagerly waited for the bishop to show some of his eccentricities but , ‘ fortunately or unfortunately ’ he had acted with the utmost decorum . |
| 3 | The Act also provided for the introduction of community councils as a vehicle for the expression of local opinion . |
| 4 | The truce also provided for the continuation of discussions about a permanent peace between the two realms . |
| 5 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co also announced for the reseller market a new HP Optical Jukebox Storage Solution optical-disk library storage system designed to extend hard disk storage on a personal computer network server running Novell Inc NetWare by up to 10.4Gb . |
| 7 | During the early June talks , the LTTE also called for the repeal of the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution which had been passed in August 1983 and obliged all MPs to take an oath forswearing separatist aspirations [ see p. 32632 ] . |
| 8 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 9 | And that of course also accounted for the fact that there was no book in Webbs ' window . |
| 10 | Only at the end of the sixteenth century was this nomadic watercourse properly recaptured for the town and its outlet fixed by some determined engineering . |
| 11 | The communiqué also called for the PICC to be reconvened before the signing of the final peace agreement on Oct. 31 . |
| 12 | Dame Edna pursed her lips , the Coalport cup of Earl Grey halfway to her vermilioned slash of a mouth , and leaned forward , confidingly , offering a tantalising glimpse of heaving bosom appropriately cantilevered for the occasion . |
| 13 | The Woolwich building society yesterday appealed for the Government to take ‘ urgent and decisive ’ action to end the housing slump . |
| 14 | The union treaty also provided for the creation of a cohesion fund by Dec. 31 , 1993 , to finance environmental and transport infrastructure projects in member countries with a per capita GDP which was less than 90 per cent of the EC average . |
| 15 | Comfort for Beleevers , a pastoral treatise never intended for the press , provoked a storm by declaring that God was in part the author of the sins of the godly . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , therefore , a man never noted for the quality of patience had rushed bullheaded on the opportunity offered by the accession of Mary . |
| 17 | This aspect became even more important after 1963 when public sector intervention took the form of the provision of mass housing ( 'large flatted estates of a form never built for the market' ; Dunleavy , 1981:1 ) on redeveloped inner sites and in inner-ring locales like Killing worth . |
| 18 | The spokeswoman also called for the area of beach where they became stuck to be clearly signposted . |
| 19 | To the same end from the beginning the BDDA also battled for the employment of deaf teachers . |
| 20 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 21 | This section also provided for the creation of a Conflict Prevention Centre in Vienna and an Office for Free Elections in Warsaw . |