Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was scenes like this that prompted the MP for Hereford to call for a review of flood defences . |
| 2 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 3 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 4 | It is likely that Li Peng , the prime minister , still tastes the personal gall of 1m people in Hong Kong taking to the streets after Tiananmen to call for his ejection from office . |
| 5 | last night between England qualify for the World Cup ? |
| 6 | Marx 's ideas about Russia have for obvious reasons been discussed extensively , but this has significance for Marx 's anthropology in two ways . |
| 7 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll miss the involvement but it 's too important for England to qualify for the World Cup finals to take any chances . ’ |
| 9 | The most important thing right now is for England to qualify for next years World Cup Finals . |
| 10 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 11 | She had combed the shops of Windsor looking for work , and at last had found some . |
| 12 | To take just one more example , the central urban township of Sheffield accounted for only one-twentieth of the 22,370-acre parish which stretched from the industrial villages of Attercliffe and Darnall in the east to isolated farms in the west . |
| 13 | When solving the up- or down-problem at node k in preceding sections , we first modified the original tableau of LPk to allow for the new or changed , upper or lower bound . |
| 14 | For many years readers DENISE BAILEY of Sussex longed for a pond in the garden , but with small children around the idea was shelved — until now . |
| 15 | On the eve of the start of the plenum various radical pro-reform groups organized a huge demonstration in the centre of Moscow to call for an end to the communist monopoly , for the removal of conservatives from the CPSU leadership , and for an end to privileges for the nomenklatura ( party functionaries ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 18 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 19 | Equally , the theologians ' new concentration on the literal meaning of the Bible produced a new view of the judge 's obligations which Charles the Good of Flanders exploited for himself : |
| 20 | All but a handful of LEAs bid for these grants ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ; CIPFA , 1989 , p. 18 ) . |
| 21 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 22 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 23 | He thought of Valerie waiting for him . |
| 24 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 25 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 26 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 27 | It is impossible to fault the engineering on L'Oiseau-Lyre 's disc of Bach works for harpsichord played by Christophe Rousset . |
| 28 | If the cortes of Navarre and Castile prolonged a phantom existence that of Aragon vanished for ever . |
| 29 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 30 | The development costs of Ariane accounted for 30 per cent of French space spending between 1974 and 1979 . |