Example sentences of "[num] and [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs , a borough council , brought proceedings under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 and applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants from using shop premises of theirs for trade on Sundays in breach of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 The defendants resisted the claim against them on the ground , inter alia , that section 47 was in conflict with article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 2 | ‘ Britain 's private sector service industries earned almost £32 billion from exports in 1991 and accounted for 57 per cent of GDP and over 60 per cent of employment ’ , the survey said . |
| 3 | The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act passed in 1985 mandated the federal government to balance the budget by 1991 and allowed for the sequestration of funds if President and Congress failed to reach agreement . |
| 4 | The Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples ( a forum for Caucasus ethnic groups ) met in Tskhinvali on April 26 and called for a reassessment of relations with Russia . |
| 5 | Encarnación Valdiva ( " the Tiger " ) reportedly replaced Morán as re-contra leader on Sept. 7 and called for fresh negotiations with the government . |
| 6 | She herself was detained in June 1986 and held for nineteen months . |
| 7 | Opposite its entrance is the High Synagogue , completed in 1568 and paid for by the mayor of the ghetto , Mordechai Maizl . |
| 8 | During this period a regular wintering flock established itself at Chichester gravel pits , which reached a peak of 43 birds in December 1969 and accounted for about half the records for each winter . |
| 9 | When Lansdowne communicated his despair about the war to the press in 1917 and called for negotiations , there was a storm of protest . |
| 10 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 11 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 12 | For example , the public sector services ( the bottom three categories in Table 3. 1 ) , grew rapidly in the 1960s and early 1970s and accounted for over half the total increase in service jobs in this period . |
| 13 | She is a founder member of the Medau Society , qualifying as a Medau teacher in 1958 and taught for ILEA for 20 years and now greatly enjoys being a class member . |
| 14 | Tell the King that you are concerned about the case of Mohamed Srifi , currently in Kenitra Central Prison , Casablanca , who was arrested in 1974 , tortured , brought to trial in 1977 and jailed for 30 years after a blatantly unfair trial . |
| 15 | ‘ I only played half the games yet we were never out of the top five and qualified for Europe . |
| 16 | Gorbachev met with Yakovlev , Nazarbayev , Akayev and Yeltsin on Aug. 27 and called for the Union Treaty process to be renewed , threatening to resign at the Supreme Soviet in September if the uncontrolled dissolution of the Soviet Union continued . |
| 17 | The Truth About Chernobyl was written in 1987 and submitted for publication to Novy Mir , one of the best Russian literary magazines . |
| 18 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 19 | He entered Edinburgh University in 1719 and studied for three years , though without taking a degree . |
| 20 | Day nursery provision by local authorities was strictly limited in the 1930s and charged for , as a result of the cuts in local spending introduced as part of the National government 's economy drive , but when the Second World War came and women were to be mobilised in large numbers for the war effort , the government gave local authorities a 100-per-cent grant to cover the costs of day nurseries , merely charging parents for the cost of food served to the children . |
| 21 | Mr Reid told Oxford Crown Court , Clarke had finished work in Cheltenham at about noon on December 15 and gone for a drink with his father before going home . |
| 22 | Well before 1880 , Wesleyan Methodists had a thriving Sunday School and some form of regular public worship in the Strand-on-the-Green area , but due to the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , a large site in Sutton Court Road was made available to the Methodists , who raised funds and built a substantial Hall in the centre of that site , opened in 1880 and used for Sunday School and public worship ; followed , in 1902 , by the erection of a Manse on the southern flank . |
| 23 | Of the Meikleour property the most successful lot was the outstanding pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted vases of Egyptian alabaster , made for the duc d'Aumont around 1770–75 and purchased for 13,801 livres at the celebrated Aumont sale in 1782 by Louis XVI . |
| 24 | Soviet Germans , about two million strong , established a new All-Union Society of Germans in early 1989 and called for the restoration of their autonomous republic , which had been abolished at the outbreak of the war in 1941 . |
| 25 | Mr Brannigan and Mr McBride were arrested in January 1989 and held for six days , 14 hours and 30 minutes and for four days , six hours and 25 minutes respectively . |
| 26 | The USSR and its East European allies constituted the Warsaw Treaty Organisation , founded in 1955 and extended for twenty years in 1985 ; a somewhat larger group of states , including Cuba , Mongolia and Vietnam , were members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or Comecon ) . |
| 27 | A screening programme for high blood pressure and related risks , begun in 1968 and sustained for 21 years in a defined community , gave us an opportunity to study long term management of high blood pressure in young adults in a social context , with data collected prospectively on originally unsuspected associations . |
| 28 | We were riding back to Stratford in the spring of 1613 and stopped for the night at the Crown Inn in Oxford . |
| 29 | Jorge Quintana Silva and another student , Carlos Ortega , were arrested on 4 January 1990 and detained for 10 months before being brought to trial . |
| 30 | The report , citing diplomatic sources , said that the deal had been signed in late 1990 and provided for Myanma to pay at least half the price in rice and timber . |