Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 2 | Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time . |
| 3 | If the business has different sections or different sites , you should enquire whether all its employees have been considered for redundancy or whether your particular part of the operation is the only one which has come under scrutiny for cut-backs . |
| 4 | THE Welsh Office has come under attack for refusing to hold a public meeting into their controversial choice for a bypass around an Anglesey village . |
| 5 | A city council has come under fire for putting up its Christmas lights too early . |
| 6 | The Scottish Office has come under fire for failing to increase capital spending on social work . |
| 7 | Keen Hunter defends his Abbaye crown and the rain has come in time for John Gosden 's flier . |
| 8 | These included not only the psychiatric cases but also those suffering from tuberculosis ( nineteen patients in 1945 ) and others con fined to hospital for long periods . |
| 9 | He has impressed as stand-in for the injured Tommy Wright . |
| 10 | Anybody who has operated in business for more than five years knows that invariably in five years the business is not all right unless something has been done about it . |
| 11 | BAeSEMA 's work varies from design contracts for equipment and services to support contracts for equipment the navy has had in service for many years . |
| 12 | It has floundered in recession for five years . |
| 13 | Mr Gysi has spoken out for sweeping political and economic reforms and has acted as lawyer for the opposition New Forum . |
| 14 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 15 | The government devalued last year but has remained under pressure for its failure to cut the budget deficit . |
| 16 | This provision has remained in place for years because the banks wished it so . |
| 17 | RECESSION has led to misery for millions but none more so than workers made Redundant and those whose homes have been Repossessed . |
| 18 | We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK . |
| 19 | Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident . |
| 20 | Mum has gone into town for late night shopping . |
| 21 | As Chelsea 's players prepared for tonight 's Premier League match at Middlesbrough , Porterfield said : ‘ Don Howe has a chest infection and , as a precaution due to his previous history , he has gone into hospital for checks . ’ |
| 22 | A man has gone on trial for the murder of his girlfriend 's cousin outside a social services office . |
| 23 | A MAN has gone on trial for the murder of a security guard clubbed to death while patrolling a Craigavon housing estate . |
| 24 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 25 | His partner has gone to prison for knowingly selling the US Air Force defective parts which have caused the death of 21 fliers . |
| 26 | Joe , who has worked on site for more than 30 years , is a founder member of the National Campaign for the Nuclear Industry . |
| 27 | Rab has worked in conservation for over 30 years ; some of his conservators for even longer . |
| 28 | The engineering industry has continued in decline for the past year . |
| 29 | A practising certificate will expire in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) immediately upon its holder being removed from or struck off the roll ; ( 2 ) upon its withdrawal at the instance of the Law Society after the designated replacement date has passed without application for renewal being receivedbut such expiry will not be automatic ; ( 3 ) upon its replacement by a new practising certificate ; ( 4 ) upon the Society refusing to issue a new certificate or upon the replacement date if that is subsequent to the Society 's refusal . |
| 30 | MAI Systems Corp , now based in Irvine , California has filed for protection for Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in a Wilmington , Delaware court . |