Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget sought spending increases for the departments of Education , Justice , State , Energy , Treasury , and Veterans ' Affairs . |
| 2 | Even the offer of free membership in the group 's fan club failed to shift tickets for the gig near Swindon , Wilts . |
| 3 | Protesters on April 5 disrupted a march organized to show support for the President , and on the following day police broke up a protest in Adzope , 100 km north of Abidjan , shooting dead a student . |
| 4 | This proved unnecessary and massive investment followed to provide facilities for the construction of the latest generation of Atlantic liners . |
| 5 | Even with the new heating , warmth was hard to get : two years later the chapter struggled to find firewood for the canons since other fuel could not be got ; and a defective boiler in the cathedral was made in Germany and could not be mended . |
| 6 | Diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis for the purpose of this study required HIV seropositivity by two separate methods , and changes on direct cholangiography that were compatible with diagnostic criteria for primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 7 | The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules . |
| 8 | The appellant appealed pursuant to section 19A(2) of the Act on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge failed to consider a wide range of relevant factors in deciding whether to make the order ; ( 2 ) the judge applied the wrong test as to whether the appellant had acted unreasonably ; ( 3 ) the judge failed to give reasons for the making of the order and neither ascertained the amount of wasted costs incurred , nor what party had incurred the wasted costs ; and ( 4 ) had wrongly used the section 19A procedure to punish the appellant . |
| 9 | On the basis of a large response the Bureaux Services Committee decided to substitute Mesher for the ‘ Yellow Book ’ which had previously been supplied on supplementary benefit and family income supplement . |
| 10 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 11 | The Borough Education Committee had invited tenders for the supply of faggots , but the committee replied that ‘ the Guardians do not enter into competition with the trade ’ . |
| 12 | The home had set times for the toilet : 9am , 3pm , and 9pm . |
| 13 | However , on May 19 a judge had issued warrants for the arrest of the former guerrilla movement 's general staff in connection with the 1985 attack . |
| 14 | The run hoped to raise £50,000 for the Scottish Cot Death Trust . |
| 15 | A child protection review , discussed below , is another type of child protection conference convened to review arrangements for the protection of a child . |
| 16 | The older ‘ rusticated ’ youth from the Cultural Revolution period continued to cause anxiety for the authorities . |
| 17 | Sunderland 's Easter Handicap reaches the quarter final stage on Friday night at a meeting hoped to raise £1,500 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association . |
| 18 | No group had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but a statement issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Factions ( PRF , a group believed to have links with the radical Fatah Revolutionary Council or " Fatah rebels " ) on Aug. 7 claimed that Christen and Erriquez would be released within 24 hours . |
| 19 | In August the KKE had expressed support for the attempted coup against Soviet President Gorbachev , and Papariga now declared that the process of perestroika " which has been presented as the political restructuring of socialism , is in fact a most savage … restoration of capitalism " . |
| 20 | In public , the duke continued to make plans for the coronation of Edward V , still scheduled for 22 June . |
| 21 | In public , the duke continued to make plans for the coronation of Edward V , still scheduled for 22 June . |
| 22 | The third weakness is that the method adopted to conquer inflation for the second time — raising the interest rate — only works by inflicting pain on borrowers , both corporate and domestic . |
| 23 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 24 | One of our members told how a German lady met in a Festival bus queue had sent money for the purchase of books for her grandchildren . |
| 25 | ALLEGATIONS that the Swiss government failed to pay kidnappers for the release of an abducted Red Cross official in Sidon last year may lie behind the seizure yesterday of two more Swiss delegates of the International Red Cross . |
| 26 | Councils around the region are set to tighten their purse strings after the Government announced spending levels for the coming year . |
| 27 | The Supreme Soviet voted to cede responsibility for the budget to the government . |
| 28 | Local authorities had a duty to assess those judged to be ‘ at risk ’ or ‘ vulnerable ’ and the state had to take responsibility for the supervision of care . |
| 29 | It began on Oct. 1 after tens of thousands of nationalists opposed to communist party domination of the Ukrainian government had taken part for the second consecutive day in demonstrations in Kiev . |
| 30 | Liberian accusations to the effect that the Côte d'Ivoire government had provided support for the rebels put a strain on relations between the two countries , the Liberian ambassador in Abidjan being withdrawn " for consultations " in early January . |