Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Robinson 's counsel , Kieran May , had told the judge that the MoD admitted liability for the purposes of the action , but was disputing how much should be awarded . |
| 2 | At twenty , he was too old for youth training schemes , but lacked experience for the type of job he wanted in book-keeping . |
| 3 | The meeting also agreed proposals for the abolition of the visa system , for flights between the two countries and for bilateral co-operation on development projects , such as the planned construction with Indian aid of a hospital . |
| 4 | The Irish Republican Army admitted responsibility for the killing of two Australian tourists in the Netherlands . |
| 5 | The Army admitted responsibility for the deaths in July 1989 of 47 youths who had suffocated after being locked in a railway wagon during a roundup of suspected Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) rebels around Kumi , some 200 km north-east of Kampala . |
| 6 | But , above all , this enlargement made provision for the revival of the local past which Lanfranc 's building had rigorously excluded : on either side of the high altar were the altars of Dunstan and Elphege , and over the altar was a beam on which they stood flanking the figure of Christ in Majesty . |
| 7 | This was the formula whereby the law made provision for the descent of landed estates within a line . |
| 8 | In 1944 R. A. Butler , the President of the Board of Education , enacted a new Education Act which gave aid to Church schools in a new compromise and made provision for the raising of the school leaving age to fifteen at the end of the war and to sixteen at some date thereafter . |
| 9 | The Grand Union Act made provision for the widening of the locks when and if the Grand Junction relented on the matter of Blisworth . |
| 10 | This authorization made provision for the removal of one large , identifiable group of surrendered personnel from 5 Corps responsibility , although at the same time Robertson instructed that " steps should be taken to ensure that Allied PW held in Russian area are transferred to us in exchange " . |
| 11 | We have already noted that the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 made provision for the establishment of a statutory system of legal advice , but that the appropriate part of the Act was never brought into force . |
| 12 | The Factory Acts of 1891 and 1895 made provision for the regulation of homework , but the numbers remained hard to calculate . |
| 13 | Talking to the researcher about South Africa , they voiced sympathy for the plight of black South Africans . |
| 14 | Arriving in Spain on a morale boosting visit to the £10 million set , he angrily attacked calls for the show to be axed . |
| 15 | In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of his reign on Nov. 18 , Sultan Qaboos bin Said announced plans for the creation of a Consultative Council " to provide more opportunities for the Omani citizen 's wider participation in the responsibilities of … the fatherland " . |
| 16 | In November 1990 he announced plans for the creation of new Consultative Council of provincial representatives [ see p. 37873 ] . |
| 17 | Both SMP [ originating in the boys ' public schools ] and MME [ originating in state secondary schools ] produced proposals for the redefinition of school mathematics that were clearly orientated to the demands of various powerful , i.e. resource-controlling , extra-school groups . |
| 18 | I see that Wetherall got MOTM for the game on Saturday from one of the tabloids , so much for me saying he was at fault for the goals . |
| 19 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 20 | That provided support for the regulars in a vital role . |
| 21 | More recently Gill , Khalaf , and Massoud ( 1979 ) provided support for the stance of Jones and Wellman , deducing that the observed increase in rank up to the medium-volatile stage could be adequately explained as the thermal result of former depth of burial ; the higher ranks , they argued , require the additional factor of above-average palaeogeothermal gradients in the area concerned . |
| 22 | All 10 fundholding practices and three of the six non-fundholding practices contributed data for the whole of these two periods . |
| 23 | Konstantinos Kosmopoulos retained Salonika for the ND with 50.9 per cent , beating the Pasok-Left Coalition candidate . |
| 24 | Lloyds Bank , which was the first to impose a levy , lost the most customers when it charged £12 for the privilege of owning its card . |
| 25 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 26 | NORFOLK was drawn into the Medau web in 1960 after Madge Segger and Phyllis Ratcliffe , County Physical Education Advisers , visited Wembley for the Festival of Movement and Dance . |
| 27 | The Denberies or Denes , were lands in the Weald which provided pannage for the herds of swine . |
| 28 | The Norwegian government donated some 2,000,000 kronor ( US$320,000 ) to the NCGUB , whose leader , Sein Win , visited Norway for the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 29 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
| 30 | By showing in what circumstances a firm 's value would not be affected , Messrs Modigliani and Miller provided clues for the circumstances in which it might be . |