Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besiktas lost out on the Turkish title on goal difference and want the Israeli striker to boost their squad for next season 's bid for honours in Europe and at home . |
| 2 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 3 | The French Flyer makes his debut for Cheltenham 's United team tomorrow , so On y vas . |
| 4 | MICRO FOCUS MAKES ITS MARKER FOR THE AGE OF OBJECTS WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED OPTION |
| 5 | How does the hon. Gentleman square his enthusiasm for the right of veto on that occasion with the decision of the leader of his party that he would give way at Maastricht on all the issues that are now being discussed ? |
| 6 | On Jan. 11 the French government gave its approval for a joint venture known as Eurodynamics to be formed by merging the missile development divisions of British Aerospace and the French group Thomson-CSF , as announced by the two companies on Oct. 16 , 1989 . |
| 7 | The state-owned French firm made its bid for Piper public after a spate of rumours about the US company which has been in deep financial trouble since early 1990 . |
| 8 | Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have launched a campaign to persuade the British government to increase its target for the generation of electricity from renewable resources . |
| 9 | CRYSTAL PALACE 'S struggling squad did their bit for Children in Need yesterday — but today charity must not begin at home . |
| 10 | ‘ We appeal to anyone with an interest in British justice to support our demand for an immediate independent inquiry into the RUC frame-ups and present use of supergrasses , ’ said the CPFJC statement . |
| 11 | BRENT ANDERSON from Waikato is not the only foreign player doing his stuff for an Irish club . |
| 12 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 13 | Ste Barbe 's episcopal acta confirm his sympathy for the ethos of the Yorkshire monastic reform movement . |
| 14 | Central Council records its appreciation for the hard work , dedication and enthusiasm of all staff throughout a very busy and demanding year . |
| 15 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |
| 16 | According to compensation theory the leisure society only arrives when people 's preference for extra leisure exceeds their preference for extra income . |
| 17 | The meal was organised around the char which had been caught that afternoon , and Hope was touched at the extravagant praise lobbed his way for the provision of the excellent fish . |
| 18 | As called for by Mitterrand in January 1989 [ see p. 36404 ] , the government in the following month presented its programme for modernizing the criminal code which dated from the Napoleonic era . |
| 19 | The average man read his paper for 69 minutes a day , according to an IPC survey in 1972 — 3 , and the average woman for 47 minutes . |
| 20 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 21 | Demilitarisation is considered as the ‘ international legal regime of a distinct territory forbidding its use for military goals in peacetime ’ . |
| 22 | The two sides also issued a joint statement expressing their support for making Antarctica an international nature reserve , as first proposed by the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau . |
| 23 | In Saudi Arabia Baker met with foreign ministers from the six GCC countries and Egypt and Syria , who issued a joint statement expressing their appreciation for Bush 's March 6 speech and its " positive treatment " to the Palestinian question . |
| 24 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 25 | The Democratic Party repeated its demand for an inquiry , saying it was necessary to establish whether cabinet ministers and the former President , Mr PW Botha , were privy to the murders . |
| 26 | There were reports on June 26 that the Lezghin population of Daghestan ( Russia ) and northern Azerbaijan was threatening civil disobedience to obtain its demand for the creation of a unified Lezghin state . |
| 27 | TV campaigner Esther Rantzen was tonight announcing a political initiative to back her call for a nationwide witness protection programme . |
| 28 | A STRAIGHT-talking tycoon ditched his plan for a pork pie factory when a council official told him : ‘ Call me Mister . ’ |
| 29 | Wimbledon 's large delegation shows their determination for Jones to get off a playing ban . |
| 30 | They themselves invited a little girl to share my bedroom for a while . |