Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 18 Finland applied for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 2 | Switzerland applied for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 3 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 4 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 5 | A pair of mahogany and ebonised doors by Alfred Waterhouse from the Natural History Museum in London sold for £1,700 to the Fine Art Society itself ( est. £800–1,200 ) , while an oak corner bookcase by Waterhouse brought £8,500 ( est. £2–3000 ) . |
| 6 | Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b . |
| 7 | At the station he asked for directions to the industrial estate , and walked it in a quarter of an hour . |
| 8 | YOU asked for comments on the new proposals for points scoring . |
| 9 | Applause and mock commiseration followed : George then followed with : The conceit carried through several verses which varied in pitch and volume as George fought for air against the unaccustomed alcohol . |
| 10 | Then he dropped to roof-top height and fled for home through the deepening dusk . |
| 11 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 12 | Non-attainment areas were given until July 1979 to have an approved SIP which provided for attainment of the primary NAAQSs by December 1982 . |
| 13 | The Committee did stress that there was ‘ a real desire for improvement ’ and prepared a draft Convention which provided for service via the consular channel , or by an agent appointed either by a party or by the Court whose process was involved . |
| 14 | An agreement between BT and Mercury provided for interconnections between the two systems . |
| 15 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 16 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 17 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |
| 18 | In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford . |
| 19 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 20 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 21 | On 26 May 1918 , they sailed for France on the Leasowe Castle , torpedoed at midnight on the 26/27 , the survivors taken back to Alexandria . |
| 22 | It appealed for sympathy with the unemployed in a way which did not challenge the consensus about the problem . |
| 23 | The creative team , for example , who appealed for help for the starving Biafrans with the headline , " Fresh food is flying to Biafra " with a visual showing a few live locusts knew what they were doing . |
| 24 | Brockway , Dutt , Gallacher , Jowett , Maxton and Pollitt for the Communists and the ILP appealed for support for the new committee . |
| 25 | It was probably through exasperation with the lack of Anglo-American concessions that , in a speech in July 1946 , Molotov appealed for support from the German people themselves . |
| 26 | The Surveyors-General frequently complained of depredations by local people upon the forest woods , and on one occasion at least appealed for aid to the titular head of the Forest administration . |
| 27 | It was to these fanatical warriors , and above all to their chieftain , that both Motamid and the Caliph of Badajoz appealed for aid against the steady encroachments of Alfonso . |
| 28 | During a mass in Cape Verde on Jan. 25 , he said that the developments in Eastern Europe should not lead to the international community forgetting the plight of the Third World , while in Mali on Jan. 28 he appealed for harmony between the Christian and Moslem religions . |
| 29 | In Oman on April 3 he appealed for intervention by the Arab League and the Organization of African Unity . |
| 30 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |