Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 2 | Another rally on Feb. 23 provoked violence against the police as about 10,000 people rallied to call for the return of the Soviet Union as a unified state . |
| 3 | She knelt to pray for the soul of God 's servant Hereward , his wife and all who worshipped there . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Garscadden quoted COSLA as being concerned about what would happen if someone 's aunt came to stay for a couple of months . |
| 5 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 6 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 7 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 8 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 9 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 10 | After three hours of continuous nibbling it seemed , I will confess , rather on the acid and insubstantial side , and I began to yearn for a bowl of pasta . |
| 11 | It would seem that the priests fought a hard election campaign for the liberals began to press for the limitation of clerical deputies — a step inconceivable in 1809 . |
| 12 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 13 | Military , police and reconnaissance experts immediately began to prepare for the arrival of the 14,000-strong force in the UN-protected areas of Eastern and Western Slavonia and Krajina , three Serb-held enclaves in eastern and southern Croatia . |
| 14 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 15 | At an early stage the archbishop and ten of his suffragans had signed a declaration that they intended no prejudice to the king by their support for the reforms , and the Ordainers themselves swore to work for the benefit of church , king and people . |
| 16 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 17 | In 1983 , Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision which means that Phoenixes and major revisions will be released as separates between editions . |
| 18 | When my father died , his brother Perry generously undertook to pay for the education of Brian and myself . |
| 19 | Since all the parties to this dispute had already agreed to Article 14 of the Montreal Convention , the Security Council had no lawful authority to adopt any resolution that failed to call for the arbitration of this dispute . |
| 20 | Last month , Iran 's new leader , President Hashemi Rafsanjani , offered to work for the release of the American hostages held by Islamic extremists in Lebanon along with 10 other foreigners . |
| 21 | In 1340 the king conceded that parliament should have the right to grant the maltote , which it proceeded to do for a period of fifteen months . |
| 22 | He managed to sleep for a couple of hours , then rose and wandered off to Franco 's bar to see if Maidstone was there . |
| 23 | Exacting specifications were then provided for firms who offered to tender for the work of dismantling and rebuilding . |
| 24 | She planned to stay for a couple of days in the Arts Club in Edinburgh , as she belonged to a London club that had a reciprocal arrangement . |
| 25 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 26 | A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden . |
| 27 | Armando Durán was on April 30 appointed Foreign Minister , replacing Reinaldo Figueredo Planchart , who resigned to campaign for the leadership of the ruling Acción Democrática ( AD ) ; Durán , was replaced as Secretary-General of the Presidency by Beatrice Rangel . |
| 28 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 29 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 30 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |