Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bessmertnykh met with Baker and Bush in Washington for talks on the Gulf crisis , arms control and the forthcoming summit ; agreed that summit scheduled for February would be postponed because of Gulf conflict . |
| 2 | In Nicholson v. Harper ( 1895 ) A owned some goods stored for him at a warehouse . |
| 3 | The practice of holding exhibitions in private apartments in Paris is quite common ; that of using empty blocks destined for renovation or sale is less so . |
| 4 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 5 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 6 | Although a variety of provisions is possible , the position taken in Precedent 3 is that the seller is obliged to accept all orders placed for delivery subject to agreed lead times . |
| 7 | In 1951 , the Employment Fellowship ( formerly the Winter Distress League ) turned to the problem of keeping elderly people employed for as long as possible ( Employment Fellowship 1958 ) . |
| 8 | It must be strong enough to provide those services needed for the security of society ; powerful and efficient armed forces and police are essential . |
| 9 | VM+ is an ASIC which incorporates various facilities needed for manipulating full motion video such as filters , scaling and incremental zoom functions . |
| 10 | The vendors , in turn , are under no obligation to accept any offer made for [ name ] . |
| 11 | The Committee pronounced four members expelled for failure to provide information in the course of investigations . |
| 12 | The Elizabethan admiral was ‘ war' and wakin' ’ on that March weekend in 1942 when the navy 's little ships — lightly built wooden craft designed for high-speed attacks rather than close-quarters work — stormed into St Nazaire with their landing parties . |
| 13 | Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve . |
| 14 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 15 | Keogan et al studied 2017 patients referred for chest radiography and recommended more selective use of chest radiography through the application of selection guidelines . |
| 16 | for several years Leonard had attended various camps held for youngsters whose parents were able to afford to send them . |
| 17 | On Jan. 1 , a spokesman for Ershad 's Jatiya Party ( JP ) said that the party would contest nationwide elections scheduled for Feb. 27 [ see p. 37907 ] " for the sake of democracy " . |
| 18 | The tutor is permitted to assist the student in obtaining and operationalising any resources required for the investigation , eg computers and software . |
| 19 | This should improve any predictions made for unknown or mis-recognised words . |
| 20 | NEW evidence emerged last night which may help clear two sisters jailed for life for the murder of bank worker Alison Shaughnessy . |
| 21 | The High Performance Fortran ( HPF ) compiler includes a set of extensions to the Fortran 90 language , allowing programmers to create machine-independent software optimised for a range of parallel architectures . |
| 22 | Mr Patten would like British tests used for similar purposes . |
| 23 | But the Champenois were not unprepared : many houses were able to seal up their cellars ; those wishing to escape German occupation left for southern France , while others remained organising themselves into an effective network of resistance , the extent of which was unknown even to most Champenois . |
| 24 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 25 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 26 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 27 | Under its 1949 Basic Law ( Constitution ) , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are ( i ) the Federal Diet ( Bundestag ) , the lower house of parliament , comprising 497 members elected for a four-year term by a mixed system of proportional representation and direct voting , and 22 members elected by the West Berlin House of Representatives ; ( ii ) the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) , the upper house of parliament , comprising 41 members of the governments of the Republic 's 10 Länder ( states ) and four representatives appointed by the West Berlin Senate ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident — currently Richard von Weizsäcker ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; and ( iv ) the federal government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — currently Helmut Kohl ) elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President and his or her ministers . |
| 28 | The unexpected support came on the day miners ' unions , after receiving assurances , agreed to call off a High Court bid to force British Coal to re-open and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure . |
| 29 | THE mineworkers ' unions yesterday agreed to call off their High Court bid to force British Coal to reopen and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure . |
| 30 | The plan is today to i is still three loads , and we 've got three loads planned for the rest of this week . |