Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb pp] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 2 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's will be pinning their hopes on the decorative arts market which is performing well in Europe and the States and accounted for 56% of business last year compared to 38% in 1990 . |
| 4 | Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation . |
| 5 | The manifesto condemned the invasion of Kuwait and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces . |
| 6 | The Miguelist forces entered Funchal , and some 146 people and twenty-one clergy were arrested and imprisoned , sent to Lisbon and deported for life to the Portuguese colonies . |
| 7 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 8 | I remember Lily playing her first solo on a flat-sounding descant recorder made by Dolmetsch and bought for her by her father . |
| 9 | Each writer is introduced by Ms Washington and placed for us against her proper contemporary backdrop , so that we can see and understand some of the pressures and concerns that shaped her writing , her style and her narrative voice . |
| 10 | Here , however , we describe a method originally used in 1904 for tubes by Mallock and adapted for linearly viscoelastic materials by the author ( 1974 ) . |
| 11 | That was in August 1988 and Jones was fined two weeks ' wages by boss Bobby Gould and banned for three matches by the FA . |
| 12 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 13 | The original timber Warehouse was entirely destroyed by fire which started on 12th January and burned for three months . |
| 14 | Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) . |
| 15 | Born in Sunderland and left for London , aged 17 , Stewart met Annie Lennox in 1977 where she was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar . |
| 16 | Unreality supervened again as Argentina fired its President Galtieri and called for the immediate withdrawal of British forces . |
| 17 | The federal government on Sept. 9 dismissed Peter Uhl , director-general of the Czechoslovak press agency CSTK and known for leftist views ; his replacement , Tomas Kopriva , was a deputy in Klaus 's Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) . |
| 18 | It was originally used by the RAF and sold for civil use in 1938 . |
| 19 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 20 | I am delighted that it is possible to use this program to produce designs which can then be imported into DesignaKnit and used for knitting . |
| 21 | It was then , too , that he found that her meeting with the King 's mother was over — happily , as she told him , smiling ; although her welcome would not be complete until the King himself left St Hilarion and sent for her . |
| 22 | Mr Davies put his friend in his car and took him back to his flat in Highfield Road and called for an ambulance . |
| 23 | We left after breakfast on the Monday and stopped for lunch near Montdidier . |
| 24 | Met with SEAD and interviewed for SEAD Newsletter and Radio Scotland . |
| 25 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 26 | The Rutherglen Councillors were bribed by the Glasgow candidate 's supporters , as were their wives with presents of dresses and finery , but the Dixon supporters among the Rutherglen Councillors were invited down to Dumbarton and entertained for a period of ten days , including a cruise on Loch Lomond , a climb to the top of the ben and a stay at the inns at Dumbarton , Tarbet , Luss and Port of Menteith . |
| 27 | Bush denied that he had been in Paris and called for an end to the " rumour-mongering " concerning the affair . |
| 28 | Representatives were sent abroad to solicit customers , and the fixed sum was either agreed there or subsequently by letter or telex , with the documentation prepared in Hong Kong and sent for the customer 's signature . |
| 29 | The abundance of Ea RNA was determined by dot blot analysis , the signals obtained were quantified by PhosphorImager and normalised for loading using a β-actin cDNA probe . |
| 30 | A UN Security Council resolution unanimously adopted on Dec. 18 vehemently condemned the detention and mass rape of Moslem women by Serb forces in Bosnia and called for EC observers to be allowed into the detention camps under armed escort to assess the situation . |