Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , corner shop keeper Frank Allan has repeated a call for traffic calming measures in the surrounding alleyways . |
| 2 | Dr Marchand has devised a technique for reading the texts they got rid of . |
| 3 | Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German . |
| 4 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 5 | The EEC has evolved a mechanism for raising revenue known as ‘ own resources ’ . |
| 6 | The press has mushroomed , stalls are packed with newspapers and Romania has become a mecca for journalists from the West eager not only to report but instruct the new media , still largely partisan and biased , in western techniques and styles . |
| 7 | LRF has earned a reputation for expertise and innovation in engineering . |
| 8 | Egon Zehnder has established a reputation for high quality and absolute discretion , charges fees based on work to be undertaken and not on a contingency or percentage of salary basis , and has retained practically all its senior staff . |
| 9 | Caledonian Macbrayne has signed a contract for a new fifteen million pound ferry which will create up to seventy new jobs . |
| 10 | ‘ Going to Hungary has become a synonym for going to the West . |
| 11 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the United States has made a bid for that work ? |
| 12 | MHA hopes to have a reunion for anyone who was at Manor during the 1980s . |
| 13 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 14 | ‘ Dennis had played a seasson for Northants and I got the opportunity to go and see him in Perth , ’ he explained . |
| 15 | Scott had acquired a reputation for homosexuality at Oxford , as is made clear from correspondence in the Keynes papers at King 's College , Cambridge , and he and Keynes became close friends . |
| 16 | I suggested , as a possibility , the events of AD 196 , when in an Imperial civil war the governor of Britain , Clodius Albinus had made a bid for the throne . |
| 17 | Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it . |
| 18 | Negotiations with other Anglican Franciscan orders led to the formation of the Society of St Francis ( 1936 ) , and Father Algy moved to Cerne Abbes in Dorset to take charge of the Home of St Francis at Hilfield , where Brother Douglas Downes had established a brotherhood for work among tramps in 1921 . |
| 19 | Within a month , Mr K had found a buyer for the lease . |
| 20 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 21 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
| 22 | Korean owners of low-margin textile and shoe factories in Indonesia have gained a reputation for being harsh employers who pay low wages . |
| 23 | Nicholson failed to make a name for himself once again , though because of some inspired controversy he had at least achieved a wider circle of critics . |
| 24 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 25 | RETIRED Gordon Turner has launched a search for the best pal he has n't seen in 40 years . |
| 26 | The fact is , Jay Chandler has developed a passion for Malawi and Tanganyikan cichlids . |
| 27 | The HSC has launched a competition for hospitals on the new guidance , set to coincide with Workplace Health and Safety Week , from November 23 to 27 . |
| 28 | It may be as much for the homely , recognisable nature of this particular hero as for the energy and drama of the story that Lorna Doone has remained a classic for more than a century , and a classic adopted by the young for their own reading . |
| 29 | Brough [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 522 the C.P.S. delayed bringing a charge for a short period so that B was deprived of the possibility of trial in the juvenile court . |
| 30 | Eleven years later , perhaps on Chaloner 's recommendation , Lythe entered the service of the queen 's deputy in Dublin , Sir Henry Sidney [ q.v. ] , at a time when disorders in Ireland had created a demand for new official maps of the country . |