Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 2 | Other African countries were vocally hostile to allowing any legal trade , which , they said , would merely provoke an upsurge in poaching since it would effectively be impossible to check the origin of products offered for the market . |
| 3 | At the end of October the Department of Agriculture called for the elimination of all export subsidies on US agricultural produce within five years . |
| 4 | It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world . |
| 5 | They will usually have to charge for these , but you may be reimbursed if you subsequently register with the agency or fulfil a certain number of hours working for the agency . |
| 6 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 7 | The king , who had returned from Flanders in February and was present in person , was asked to agree to confirm and observe the charters ; to agree that no taxes should be levied without the assent of parliament , and to appoint a council which would supervise the expenditure of money raised for the war and exercise jurisdiction over ministers . |
| 8 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 9 | In October the Hamoaze was filled with ships bearing the first contingent of Canadians heading for the front . |
| 10 | One of the biggest potential costs is the building of under-road ducting for the speed sensors . |
| 11 | In April 1990 the ruling UDPM held a series of conferences on the issue of democracy , during which , it was reported , a number of speakers called for the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 12 | Jackson may well have the spirit of punk to blame for the misunderstanding . |
| 13 | A welcome addition to earlier gifts of similar works by the Directors of the Royal Blind Asylum and School , Edinburgh , was a further group of books printed for the use of the blind , in a variety of embossed and other alphabets , mainly by the two Edinburgh printers , James Gall and John Alston . |
| 14 | It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue . |
| 15 | The Inland Revenue is valuing thousands of homes to prepare for the council tax … due to replace the controversial poll tax in 1993 . |
| 16 | From it , as she passed , came the companionable muted clucking of hens settling for the night . |
| 17 | The contingent cause of the crisis is not of great significance , a tale of possible sabotage , possible negligence regarding the transport of shells destined for the battle front in late 1915 . |
| 18 | The embassy said that US$28,000,000 of funds earmarked for the country for 1992 would be withheld until Kenya made political and economic changes [ see p. 38563 for World Bank decision to withhold aid ] . |
| 19 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |
| 20 | Automatic prescan of data follows for the summary screen , and calculations can be made on a range . |
| 21 | The time that the candidate has been registered as a supervised postgraduate student will normally count towards the period of study prescribed for the degree . |
| 22 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 23 | There is nothing more baffling in cricket than the continuing reluctance of umpires to move for the adoption of TV assistance for narrow run-out and stumping decisions . |
| 24 | The columns of MLs were now under heavy fire , the port group of MLs making for the Mole to land their commandos , the starboard group intending to slip under the stern of Campbeltown into the Old Entrance . |
| 25 | The dispositive contents of the will include : ( i ) pecuniary legacies of £1,000 each to the two executors , and of £2,000 to a Mr. Clarke , the deceased 's stockbroker ; ( ii ) provision for 150B , High Street and its contents to be retained to provide a residence during their respective lifetimes of two ladies , Mrs. Donelly and Mrs. Willett ; ( iii ) a settled legacy of £10,000 to provide for the maintenance of 150B , High Street during the residence there of the two ladies ; ( iv ) a settled legacy of £2,000 for a specified animal charity ; and ( v ) a gift of residue in equal shares to two specified charities . |
| 26 | Which is more than can be said for the thousands of turkeys destined for the Christmas dinner table . |
| 27 | 350,000 copies of Corel Draw for the PC have been sold worldwide to date and an Apple Mac version is scheduled for release later this year . |
| 28 | For Henri , the desire for French control of Scotland had for the moment given way to Valois need to counter an extension of Hapsburg power ; and Mary was as useful for the one as for the other . |
| 29 | On May 6 thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Lomé calling for the resignation of President Gnassingbe Eyadema and Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , who , they claimed , were " accomplices " in the attack . |
| 30 | It 's now up to the country of origin to vouch for the health of the animals . |