Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 2 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 3 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 4 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 5 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |
| 6 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 7 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 10 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 11 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | For 30 years , Niyogi fought for the social and economic improvement of oppressed people . |
| 14 | Her eyes flickered for a split-second to see Lucenzo 's reaction . |
| 15 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 16 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 17 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 18 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |
| 19 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 20 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 21 | Georgina arranged for the wooden bridge over the lake to be replaced with the stone bridge of classical design , by Wyatt , who also had designed the wings of the Palladian Villa . |
| 22 | Gorbachev returned for a second visit on Nov. 18-21 , 1988 , accompanied by the Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers , Vladimir Kamentsev . |
| 23 | In the speech Shevardnadze called for the broadest possible democratisation of political and economic life , including greater autonomy for enterprises and the election of management . |
| 24 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 25 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 26 | While Singapore was enthusiastic , Malaysia remained cautious , and Indonesia called for a greater concentration on intra-ASEAN rather than external economic relations [ for Indonesian relations with ASEAN countries see p. 37580 ] . |
| 27 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 28 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 29 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 30 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |