Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That provided support for the regulars in a vital role . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 5 | A meeting of Western European Union ( WEU ) Foreign Ministers in Paris on Jan. 17 reaffirmed support for the USA in the Gulf war and for military action against Iraq until it withdrew unconditionally from Kuwait . |
| 6 | The auditors say the department withdrew support for the project in March after ‘ a series of delays in design , development , and preparation for installation ’ of a loop to test the reactor . |
| 7 | Members of the left-wing organization Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on Jan. 30 of Gen. ( retd ) Hulusi Sayin , commander from 1987 to 1989 of security forces fighting Kurdish guerrillas in the south-east . |
| 8 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 9 | FRANCE FRANCE abolished PR for the legislature in 1986 after Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front stunned the nation by winning 33 seats in the previous election . |
| 10 | I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month . |
| 11 | Many , therefore , blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies . |
| 12 | Police said the three-page letter found in the killer 's back pocket blamed women for the disappointments in his life . |
| 13 | Police said the three-page letter found in the killer 's back pocket blamed women for the disappointments in his life . |
| 14 | Cash pursuit : Four residents and three staff at the Ann Charlton Lodge for Muscular Sclerosis sufferers in Redcar raised £100 for the lodge in a 24-hour Trivial Pursuit marathon . |
| 15 | CCG EMPLOYEE in North Yorkshire raised £2,460 for the Children in Need appeal . |
| 16 | The FID relinquished responsibility for the scheme in 1990 , and copyright is in the hands of the BSO Panel . |
| 17 | I only started work for the exam in February . ’ |
| 18 | Also in the party are £1.7 million Darren Anderton and Paul Moran , who both hit hat-tricks for the reserves in midweek . |
| 19 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 20 | It was the seasonal migrants who impressed the rest of Spain with Galician poverty ; under their ‘ kings ’ perhaps 30,000 labourers went south for the harvest in the 1890's . |
| 21 | In the brief civil war that followed he took Worcester for the rebels in January 1322 , but was captured by the king 's forces at Tutbury , Derbyshire , on 11 March . |
| 22 | Although the atmosphere at Fontainebleau was much more relaxed than that of the Tuileries , it still presented problems for the sovereigns in that guests had to be entertained . |
| 23 | That view is inevitably contested by Ram Kishen , 73 , a socialist who won Bharatpur for the opposition in 1977 , and who is a contender along with Miss Kaur for selection as candidate this year . |
| 24 | The county court judge gave judgment for the mother in an action brought by her for the £1 per week based upon the father 's undertaking . |
| 25 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 26 | ‘ The attendance ’ , said counsel for the defendant in Hunt v. Broome , ‘ is for the purpose of peacefully persuading a man not to work so the attendance must be in a position where the persuasion can be carried out ; otherwise its purpose is frustrated … |
| 27 | It had implications for the ways in which children should be introduced to written language , not just to its visual form but to its structure and purposes . |
| 28 | And in the years after the end of the 1939–45 war there was such a spate of generals ' diaries that it at times seemed difficult to understand how these men had time for the job in hand , so busy were they with their diaries . |