Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The considerable success of these young , enthusiastic and high quality tutors in Norfolk laid the foundation for the District 's future activity in the county which , when Jacques was appointed in 1935 had only one class , a Tutorial in Norwich . |
| 2 | Actually I 'll be operating between the village hall and the Cross Keys and Mr Roger has the pub for the last sixteen years or so . |
| 3 | While the team lurked around the set in Malaga , Verity Lambert , whose company Cinema Verity produces the show for the BBC , flew back to London for what proved to be the fatal meeting with Mr Yentob last night . |
| 4 | As head of the first Indian mission in Europe , Pillai laid the groundwork for the development of the Indian Foreign Service . |
| 5 | The Surrey office at Kingston-on-Thames has the records for the Royal Philanthropic Society 's School for the reform of juveniles , from 1788 onwards . |
| 6 | Mr Bush sent a private cable to Mr Gorbachev explaining the reasons for the US military intervention just after the operation began , the Secretary of State , Mr James Baker , said . |
| 7 | Andrevitch surveyed the corridor for the last time as he backed in . |
| 8 | He also criticised the EC Commission 's French president Jacques Delors , who on Saturday blamed the Americans for the failure to agree . |
| 9 | The pollution problems created in 1991 by the burning oil wells in Kuwait indicate the need for the United Nations to make deliberate large-scale devastation of the environment a ‘ war crime ’ for which victims could subsequently seek compensation and for which the perpetrators could be punished in the future . |
| 10 | As Wright challenged the goalkeeper for the dropped ball , however , Nelson recovered to kick it clear as he fell to the ground . |
| 11 | In his address on July 15 , Mandela blamed the government for the continuing violence in South Africa 's townships , and accused it of pursuing a " cold-blooded strategy of state terrorism " . |
| 12 | However , God Himself dealt with that barrier when God the Son , Jesus Christ , came to earth and sacrifice Himself on the Cross of Calvary to pay the penalty for the sins of others . |
| 13 | Sarah was followed onto court by Hall , who only managed three games against Emmons , a result which ensured that the United States won the Cup for the 16th time in 19 contests . |
| 14 | Late on the afternoon of her third day Delia Sutherland left the house for the first time . |
| 15 | Under the map , Scott wrote the day for the start of their journey . |
| 16 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 17 | Although the United States accepted the case for the dollar eventually being convertible into SDRs , in its view this had to result from the dollar being sufficiently competitive to generate enough capital and current account surpluses over a period to make convertibility a reality . |
| 18 | Moreover , because SERPS provides the basis for the guaranteed minimum pension within occupational schemes , this measure also replicates in the private sector the disadvantage experienced by women in the public sector . |
| 19 | The first Test at Brisbane set the tone for the series : Australia disappointed with 166 , routed by Bedi 's 5 for 55 , but redeemed themselves by dismissing India for just 153 . |
| 20 | But the Banbury environmental research group which has given evidence to the select committee on energy over Harwell says the reasons for the shut-down are more complicated . |
| 21 | The changing face of football , from top : ‘ A shot from Bobby Charlton erupts out of elegance , ’ said Arthur Hopcraft ; Keegan and Lineker paved the way for the cash-rich super league ; this summer Candy-sponsored Liverpool paid more than £5 million for Mark Wright , left , and Dean Saunders |
| 22 | The saga for Richard Wunder began in 1967 when he was in Florence finalising the arrangements for the purchase of the Powers ' studio and archives . |
| 23 | Just as Shardlow was a great inland distributing centre for the east Midlands , where mining , industry and agriculture mingled their products , so Stourport became the emporium for the west Midlands , connected by river and canal with most parts of the kingdom . |
| 24 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 25 | Glenn Rainey opened the scoring for the home team after minutes but a more experienced Lurgan side always had the edge and goals from Kennedy , Williamson and Smith sealed their victory . |
| 26 | It was , indeed , from the massive accumulation of trivia and tiny details , that Darwin assembled the evidence for The Origin of Species . |
| 27 | Mr Hern raised the funds for the acquisition from friends , family and fellow authors but also received a generous ‘ life-line ’ from Currency Press , his counterpart in Australia , which offered to print a proportion of his programme . |
| 28 | Having in Scotland lost the vote for the ordination of women to the priesthood , it seemed profitable to argue that women should be ordained to the diaconate ( that is to say be made deacons , not simply deaconesses ) . |
| 29 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
| 30 | This team could have persuaded the Pope to confess that Judas Iscariot had been framed by George Washington , and that Jesus H. Christ had let Huey , Dewey and Louie take the rap for the St Valentine 's Day Massacre . |