Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] for a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 2 | But they 'll have one man with the nerve needed for a D-day showdown . |
| 3 | Rovers applied for a Pontins League place along with Stockport County , while Preston and Wigan were up for reelection . |
| 4 | Oxford Air Training School is to train 65 young cadets this summer under the Ministry of Defence 's Flying Scholarship scheme , which provides thirty hours of flying training towards the 42 hours needed for a PPL . |
| 5 | For example , the costs involved in trading in futures and options in the USA for a UK ( or other overseas ) resident are higher than the costs involved for a US resident . |
| 6 | The thesis latency distribution was measured to determine whether or not it fitted the conditions required for a Poisson distribution , ( the coefficient of dispersion should approach unity ) , but it did not . |
| 7 | The treaty provided for a US base " compensation " package to the Philippines and the return of the other chief military site — Clark Field air base — by September 1992 . |
| 8 | Recently people have begun to criticize the violence , sexism and racism in many programs , the exploitation of children 's needs by commercials aimed at them , the biased politics of ‘ objective ’ news reporting , and by the threat to cultures in the developing world by the widespread broadcasting of TV programs created for a US audience . |
| 9 | The strength of the market across the board was evident in the strong prices achieved for a Limoges enamel plaque of a scene from the Aeneid from the workshop of the Aeneid Master ( lot 228 ) , which realised £40,000 ( $64,000 , est. £6,000–8,000 ) , and in the success of a group of Flemish and German seventeenth-century ivory pieces . |
| 10 | The order is likely to be the largest single low pressure C02 contract awarded for a UK site this year . |
| 11 | One such was a remarkable grotto-garden built for a South African diamond mining millionaire at Merrow Grange on the outskirts of Guildford , in Surrey . |
| 12 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 13 | The charges of genocide that followed were denied by Iraq but pressure accumulated for a UN investigation , not least through the criticism of Turkish premier Ozal , whose own country 's relations with its Kurdish minority have enjoyed a chequered history over the years . |
| 14 | Both Paul Simonon and Viv Albertine of The slits modelled for a Laura Ashley calendar . |