Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn . |
| 2 | An MP has called for an inquiry into the causes of teenage car crime , but police say there 's no reason to panic . |
| 3 | THE MOTHER of seven Orkney children whose allegations of sex abuse led to nine others being taken into care , has called for an inquiry into their case . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister has called for an end to smears and personal attacks in the run-up to the election with a focus on policies and issues . |
| 5 | The ANC Leader , Nelson Mandela , has called for an end to sanctions against South Africa . |
| 6 | A Tory councillor has called for an end to the row which broke out after Darlington council checks revealed faults in the crash barriers around the upper deck of the NCP car park in East Street . |
| 7 | However , the parliament has called for an investigation into how this particular project came to be funded . |
| 8 | A PARLIAMENTARY candidate has called for an investigation into why there was a delay in an ambulance reaching a woman who died after plunging from a window . |
| 9 | A report from the Bow Group , a Conservative Party think-tank , has called for an energy tax on the use of all fossil fuels to be imposed in a similar way to Value Added Tax . |
| 10 | IMRAN KHAN , the Pakistan captain , has called for an overhaul of Pakistan cricket to combat what he describes as widespread ‘ nepotism and favouritism ’ . |
| 11 | Victim Support has asked for an apology for the ‘ apparent inhuman treatment ’ of victim Sohail Ahmed , 32 , at Balham station , South London . |
| 12 | But his boss has asked for an investigation into what he called evil and wicked aspects of the case . |
| 13 | A Chief Constable has asked for an inquiry into the running of the world 's biggest military airshow . |
| 14 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 15 | Over the years Mr Slade , from his home at Weekfield Farm , Exton , Dulverton , Somerset , has accounted for an array of wins with Dutch Texel-sired entries in carcass competitions at national primestock shows . |
| 16 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 17 | His regrets about not meeting Tyson might evaporate if they opened the gates of the Indiana youth centre tomorrow , especially as Holyfield seemed made for an opponent who is currently America 's most famous jailbird . |
| 18 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 19 | Having talked for an hour about wild animals the teacher posed a question to one of her class . |
| 20 | It introduces the thought that in his speech as well as in his writing , Johnson understood that the essence of art lies in the perfect marriage of form and content , therefore , Boswell may have reached for an accuracy beyond sycophancy . |
| 21 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 22 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 23 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 24 | The next call from the aircraft was as it crossed the BN having cleared for an ILS approach ; the call said that Invicta 435 was turning outbound again and would report again at the MN beacon . |
| 25 | Masoud Barzani of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan ( DPK ) , who led the Kurdish delegation during the talks in Baghdad , was believed to have pressed for an acceptance of the proposed settlement , despite uncertainty over the status of Kirkuk , claiming that the government was unwilling to make any further concessions . |
| 26 | Taken together , these four factors were said to have made for an expansion of participants in pressure politics and for an expansion of demands on government . |
| 27 | To her annoyance Oliver and Cobalt appeared settled for an afternoon 's drinking . |
| 28 | " I 'm sorry to have asked for an explanation — you will understand that bankers are trained to be cautious . |
| 29 | Ensure you note the boundary flags so that you do n't get eliminated for an error of course . |
| 30 | Other member countries had pressed for an increase to help cover the cost of integrating east German agriculture into the common agricultural policy ( CAP ) . |