Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 2 | Helen Harvey of the Lord Todd has received her presentation for ten years with CCG . |
| 3 | ‘ This has developed my liking for theatre and I am much more aware of theatre issues than before . ’ |
| 4 | If anything in the Amis corpus has validated his penchant for the poison dart , it was last year 's Memoirs : indiscreet , at times indefensible , but nevertheless a book to leave you giddy with laughter . |
| 5 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 6 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 7 | Carron Phoenix , the Glasgow sink manufacturer which has withdrawn its recommendation for French company Bene 's bid , could receive an offer from 6.4 per cent shareholder Franke of Germany . |
| 8 | The hospital has overspent its budget for this financial year by £70,000 . |
| 9 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 10 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 11 | The Association of Directors of Social Services has given its approval for this research proposal . |
| 12 | The government has given its approval for sale of electricity , generated by the station , to regional electricity companies , as part of its scheme to encourage use of renewable energy . |
| 13 | The siege has given them publicity for their ideas , of course , but what they really want , to save Liam 's life , is something quite different . |
| 14 | And Julie Goodyear — Coronation Street 's Bet Gilroy — has given her earrings for a separate celebrity sale in aid of Romanian children . |
| 15 | Every day she has given us hemp for our nests . " |
| 16 | has given you A for participation which is good , C for written work which is satisfactory and B minus for assessment , so it actively participates er gave a paper for the class , but no second essay . |
| 17 | From the outset the wide impact of the ban was and anticipate , the experiment has given me opportunity for it to be tested on the ground so that future decision can be taken objectively . |
| 18 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 19 | The five , who comprise the four founding directors of Our Price and a senior executive , have agreed to pay WH Smith 's costs and WH Smith has dropped its claim for damages . |
| 20 | With the publication of the fifth and final volume of his catalogue of Monet 's life and art , Daniel Wildenstein and his family foundation , now to be known as the Wildenstein Institute , has brought to completion the mighty project which has occupied his attention for more than fifty years . |
| 21 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 22 | PREMATURE baby Leah Roberts has won her fight for life . |
| 23 | FORMER England captain Terry Butcher has won his fight for a football future at Sunderland . |
| 24 | I come home to find my half-brother has commandeered my house for his party , and now my assistant tells me to take a bath . ’ |
| 25 | Essex Middleton cup manager Norman Groves has selected his side for the second trial match against Berkshire Under-35s to be played at the Esso BC , Abingdon , on Sunday morning . |
| 26 | The Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service has upgraded its software for designing shell and tube heat exchangers to run on Microsoft Windows . |
| 27 | The King has disclaimed his love for his offspring and therefore broken the family bond that Cordelia speaks of . |
| 28 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 29 | His acknowledgement is thoroughly deserved considering how the ex-Arsenal and Coventry boss has transferred his passion for the game into a Chelsea side , which is a delightful mixture of kids like Eddie Newton and Frank Sinclair and mature professionals such as Andy Townsend and Mick Harford . |
| 30 | But now Tewkesbury Borough Council which owns the theatre has decided its time for a change in managment … and this means Stan Stennett has to go . |