Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Flexible sigmoidoscopy showed occasional ulceration in the left colon in four of five patients examined during prednisolone therapy and normal mucosa in all patients with Crohn 's disease examined in remission .
32 Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons .
33 Bookies push for evening opening
34 On Dec. 16 MCC applied for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States code of bankruptcy law and on Dec. 20 the UK High Court placed MCC in administration .
35 " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children .
36 Mr Richardson applied for outline permission to build the chalets after winning approval for a hotel and golf complex at Humbleton .
37 When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child .
38 Mr Baker said many of the 45,000 people who applied for refugee status in Britain last year were bogus .
39 Poland , Romania and Yugoslavia had all applied for membership as of mid-1991 , while Albania applied for observer status on June 25 , 1991 .
40 Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement :
41 It also applied for planning permission to dump at another site it owned at Barnahely , Ringaskiddy .
42 On the other hand , when the Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 , County Hall on the south bank of the Thames became vested in the London Residuary Body which applied for planning permission to use the main block for mixed hotel , residential and general office purposes unconnected with any local government functions .
43 However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department .
44 That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed .
45 Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt .
46 But when farmer Robert Grayburn applied for planning permission to make the site official , Leominster Council turned it down .
47 He said that there had been an unprecedented 37 per cent rise in the number of recently arrived Soviet Jews who applied for unemployment benefit in March , as increasing numbers ended their initial period of direct state support .
48 Glasgow set to blossom as orchid show host
49 Paar Scientific has launched a liquid density standards service for density meter users .
50 The SunConnect arm of Sun Microsystems Inc has an agreement with MCI Communications Corp under which MCI will incorporate the SunNet Manager distributed network management system into its HyperStream communications service for Frame Relay and Switched Multi-Megabit Data Services-based internetworks and future broadband ISDN-based networks — HyperStream 's HyperScope network management service can be used with SunNet Manager software to monitor and control complex enterprise communications systems in high-speed , wide area virtual data networks .
51 Lewis plans to take a long break — in Britain — after first heading to Las Vegas to commentate for Sky TV on the November 13 title battle between reigning champion Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe that will decide his opponent next April .
52 Disguised as toilet equipment all the apparatus was there — the listening device and several sophisticated miniaturized bugs .
53 In an address to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on Feb. 13 , Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , accused Israel of establishing " concentration camps comparable with those of the Nazis " and of the use of chemical weapons " disguised as tear gas " against Palestinians .
54 Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were .
55 ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’
56 1942 Articled to firm of Johannesburg solicitors ; enrols for law degree at Witwatersrand University
57 But it 's , it 's premature to go for land reform straight away .
58 I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres .
59 Fleischmann replied that with hindsight that might be true but ‘ in the situation we were then in , we were obliged to tell the university of the work that we had done and they perceived that they were obliged to go for patent protection at that time .
60 You can choose where to go for family planning advice .
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