Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament voted on Jan. 17 to renew for a further six months the state of emergency first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] and regularly renewed since then . |
| 2 | Their squad assembles on January 22 to prepare for a series of warm-up matches , including games in France on January 25 and 28 . |
| 3 | Berkshire family health services authority amended the new form from July 1991 to ask for the time the visit was made . |
| 4 | United States Secretary of State James Baker held talks in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on May 16-19 to prepare for the summit between their respective Presidents scheduled for May 30-June 3 . |
| 5 | Flushed with the success of his trolleybus venture in the Kingston area of the London United Tramways , Mr. Spencer obtained permission in July 1932 to apply for powers to run trolleybuses on the Sutton route of the South Metropolitan company , so that he could implement the third item of the proposals put forward in 1931 . |
| 6 | This general picture of IS demand is confirmed by records kept in the school library , which show children referred to the school library in IS lessons between November 1983 and July 1984 to account for almost 80% of the referrals logged . |
| 7 | Amid reports of continuing subregional tensions , including incursions into Sierra Leone by Charles Taylor 's rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , the field commander of the 10,000-strong Economic Community of West African States Ceasefire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) appealed to Taylor on May 6 to work for peace . |
| 8 | Armenian guerrillas seized some 40 Soviet Interior Ministry troops in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Aug. 13 to exchange for a militant Armenian leader Zh . |
| 9 | The Supreme Council , returning from its Easter recess on April 17 , passed on April 18 a resolution reaffirming the March 11 independence declaration and again calling for negotiations , but offering to refrain from passing any new laws until after May 1 to allow for preliminary consultations . |
| 10 | A US military team arrived in Phnom Penh on July 24 to search for the bodies of US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Cambodia after the Vietnam war . |
| 11 | The UGCC was founded at Saltpond on the coast on 29 December 1947 to work for ‘ government … of the people and their Chiefs ’ . |
| 12 | The talks produced agreement in principle on Feb. 3 to work for a ceasefire by Feb. 15 and for the release by March 1 of all hostages taken by rival Azerbaijani and Armenian militias , and to establish permanent relations between the two organizations . |
| 13 | The move , he said , would mean selling on the produce at convertible prices , and he promised an increase in the minimum wage from Oct. 1 to compensate for price increases . |
| 14 | The Washington Post of Sept. 28 reported that Iraq had given all citizens of Kuwait until Oct. 1 to apply for Iraqi citizenship . |
| 15 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 16 | When Amnesty International visited Yemen in October 1990 to prepare for government talks , they heard reports of thousands of Yemenis being expelled from Saudi Arabia , some after being tortured . |
| 17 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 18 | The court ruling in a suit brought by the Fund for Animals and other groups against the Interior Department means that the department 's Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed by September 1996 to propose for listing 400 species for which there is substantial evidence of the need for protection . |
| 19 | There are some private initiatives which suggest that such people do exist in Italy , such as Signor and Signora Baracco in Naples who have founded Napoli 99 to work for the revival of the town and it monuments . |
| 20 | An ANC official said later that he hoped that a transitional executive council would be in place by March or April 1993 to prepare for elections . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |
| 22 | Another leading Democrat widely perceived as a contender for the party 's next presidential nomination , Governor Mario Cuomo of New York , had announced his intention on June 4 to run for a third term and was automatically nominated as his party 's choice . |
| 23 | In 1612 the ambassador in Paris took the desperate step of writing directly to James I to ask for money and persuaded the duc de Bouillon , one of the greatest French nobles , to back his request . |
| 24 | However , Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands and the UK , all of which derived substantial excise revenues from tobacco sales , objected to the ban and the Council of ( Health ) Ministers agreed in Luxembourg on June 6 to press for changes which would restrict publicity on a voluntary rather than a statutory basis . |
| 25 | Campaign for learning aids THE newly formed Wrexham and District Forum is to hold two inaugural meetings at the town 's library on June 24 to campaign for better local services for people with learning difficulties . |