Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May Maureen registered for war work and was directed to a clerical job in an office near Sarah 's . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 4 | Mr Richardson applied for outline permission to build the chalets after winning approval for a hotel and golf complex at Humbleton . |
| 5 | When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child . |
| 6 | Mr Baker said many of the 45,000 people who applied for refugee status in Britain last year were bogus . |
| 7 | Poland , Romania and Yugoslavia had all applied for membership as of mid-1991 , while Albania applied for observer status on June 25 , 1991 . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | It also applied for planning permission to dump at another site it owned at Barnahely , Ringaskiddy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But when farmer Robert Grayburn applied for planning permission to make the site official , Leominster Council turned it down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 17 | Lindner , who was set to join Leeds until they swooped for Kiwi centre Kevin Iro last week , has claimed he has received an offer from another English First Division club . |
| 18 | You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you . |
| 19 | The Association of Community Health Councils formally asked for CHC involvement in medical audit in 1989 and were refused by the DOH on the grounds that it was a professional exercise ( Pollitt 1992 ) . |
| 20 | The ethnic Albanians of Kosovo asked for EC recognition of an independent Kosovo on Dec. 23 . |
| 21 | Melissa declined Barney 's offer of wine and asked for mineral water . |
| 22 | She picked up the phone and dialled Heathrow , asked for Flight Information , was told that the flight from New York had arrived on time some three and a half hours ago . |
| 23 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 24 | They argued for birth control primarily on the grounds that it would improve the health of the mother rather than on the grounds that women had the right to control their fertility . |
| 25 | What you got for Christmas Day ? |
| 26 | It provided for court confiscation of convicted drug dealers ' assets , and the granting of authority for telephone tapping and surveillance of and access to computer systems of suspected drug criminals . |
| 27 | It also provided for home responsibility credits towards the basic pension . |
| 28 | The plan gave priority to environmental issues , but also provided for land reform , improved education and administrative and financial decentralization . |
| 29 | J A McGrath reports on an 11th-hour jockey switch for a strongly-fancied Aintree contenderBookmakers areprepared for £55mbetting spree |
| 30 | Radius , the paper says , would likely use its RocketShare software to develop a multiprocessing PowerPC Mac , while DayStar might develop a Macintosh designed for image processing . |