Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I can try to link the hon. Gentleman 's supplementary question to the Community , the fact is that Cyprus has applied for membership of the European Economic Community . |
| 2 | He will not forget , particularly when we have the presidency next year , that Malta has applied for membership of the Community and that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the Maltese people . |
| 3 | Control Data Systems has applied for listing of its shares on the NASDAQ National Market System , and Silicon Graphics has entered new joint marketing and technology-sharing agreements . |
| 4 | They also include the rights of beneficiaries when any fiduciary owner is the registered proprietor ; the rights and interest of a buyer who has asked for registration of title in the name of a nominee ; and the right of a buyer whose contract has not been registered on the seller 's title . |
| 5 | François d'Aubert , the centrist vice-chairman of the French National Assembly 's finance committee has asked for details of the bank 's dealings with Mr Parretti . |
| 6 | Mr Pike has asked for details of a diesel tacho in your April issue . |
| 7 | Discs has gone for promotion of the label en bloc , it has not been in the most obvious way , but it does typify the house sense of humour . |
| 8 | Last night , Stephen Eades of Southport-based environmental group Save our Shoreline , which has campaigned for protection of nature amid Hamilton Oil 's exploration , said : ‘ We are concerned that the exploration does not disturb the environment and would rather these advances were in renewable energy sources . ’ |
| 9 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
| 10 | Defence has accounted for 11% of UK manufacturing output and is one of the few sectors in which the country is still a world leader . |
| 11 | Having looked for elements of structure , the next stage is to look for elements of process , that is , what is going on' . |
| 12 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 13 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 14 | Net investment is then the estimate of the addition , in any year , to the stock of fixed capital and inventories , having allowed for depreciation of that stock during the year . |
| 15 | The announcment appeared timed for sessions of the Estonian and the Latvian parliaments which began in their respective capitals , Tallinn and Riga , yesterday . |
| 16 | The announcment appeared timed for sessions of the Estonian and the Latvian parliaments which began in their respective capitals , Tallinn and Riga , yesterday . |
| 17 | Until Mick had objected for reasons of safety , I had even planned to camp half a mile from the soldiers . |
| 18 | At the end of that month Colonel Fergusson imparted the news that the Frenchy picture at the Rotunda had closed for lack of spectators , whereas Messrs Marshall 's Peristrephic Panorama was still being shown three times a day to audiences rendered perfectly comfortable by patent stoves . |
| 19 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |
| 20 | EXTRA COST Although local authorities , countryside groups and individuals had called for sections of the line from Lackenby to Picton and Picton to Shipton to be laid underground , the area did not merit the extra expense , he said . |
| 21 | In the 1950s the Church of England had called for reform of the law under which gay sex was illegal under all circumstances , though it still held the position that such acts were immoral . |
| 22 | In recent weeks , many opposition politicians had campaigned for guarantees of future immunity from prosecution on charges of corruption . |
| 23 | The Lancastrian , Henry Tudor , when he heard of what had happened , gathered a force in France and landed in Wales — where he had lived for part of his life — and he opposed Richard III , who was killed in battle in 1485 . |
| 24 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 25 | What would you expect to happen to the magnitude of the effect once you had controlled for number of years of full-time education ? |
| 26 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 27 | Traditionally , we have looked for causes of learning difficulty in the child . |
| 28 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 29 | The Eastern Shawnee and the Miami tribes in Oklahoma , the Northern Arapahoe Economic Development Commission in Wyoming , the Ponca Industrial Corporation in Texas , the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota , and the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado have applied for grants of $100,000 each . |
| 30 | Old Colwyn Sunday League clubs West Shore and Hotpoint Reserves have applied for membership of the Subaru Vale of Conwy League . |