Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications . |
| 2 | 911 is the number you would dial for emergency in America hence the name of the program . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 4 | Escom GmbH , Peripherals Europe 's parent , signed an OEM agreement with Conner to buy disk drives for use in Escom products over five years ; separately , Conner said that it will open a new European logistics centre alongside its manufacturing facility in Irvine , Scotland . |
| 5 | The appellant firm provided tax consultancy and accounting services and registered for VAT in October 1986 . |
| 6 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 7 | ( iv ) Peers and peeresses in their own right , except peers of Ireland — the latter were , before 1963 , qualified to sit for constituencies in Great Britain but not in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | As of January 1991 four groupings continued to vie for control in Liberia : the Interim Government of National Unity , headed by Amos Sawyer and installed with the backing of the ECOWAS ( Economic Community of West African States ) peacekeeping force ECOMOG in November 1990 ; the Armed Forces of Liberia , the remnants of erstwhile President Samuel Doe 's forces , currently headed by Gen. Hezekiah Bowen ; the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , led by Charles Taylor and thought to be in control of much of the countryside outside the capital Monrovia ; and the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia , led by Prince Yormie Johnson . |
| 9 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 10 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 11 | Berry , from Bramerton , Norfolk , was originally convicted in 1983 of making electronic timers for detonating bombs which it was claimed were intended for use in Syria and the Lebanon . |
| 12 | This point arose for decision in South Carolina Insurance Co . |
| 13 | Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America . |
| 14 | He said the Government had ploughed £22.4m into housing authority ( see corr notes ) grants for work in Darlington since 1979 . |
| 15 | For overseas students who are unable to attend for interview in Edinburgh , arrangements will be made for specimens of work to be submitted before a decision on admission is taken . |
| 16 | As a result of the changes Richard Prebble , who had been dismissed for disloyalty in November 1988 by David Lange , Palmer 's predecessor [ see p. 36294 ] , returned to the government . |
| 17 | ‘ She was going to shop for spices in Greenwich Market . |
| 18 | Although all exhibit Klemperer 's integrity of purpose and objective approach to the music in hand , he is heard for preference in Beethoven , Bruckner and Mahler . |
| 19 | Planning permission is awaited for stores in Plymouth , Exeter , Frome , Somerset , and Ferndown , Dorset , and last month the firm presented designs for its first Cornwall supermarket to Truro council . |
| 20 | When we ask how it was , after initial preaching , that people were won for Christ in Corinth , Ephesus , Rome , Thessalonica , Galatia , Colossae , Philippi and the other destinations of the New Testament epistles , clearly the answer is : through the church ! |
| 21 | There is already a KSR1 at Manchester University and the company has established a UK subsidiary ; it is now opening for business in Germany and France . |
| 22 | Drugs seized as buses head for rave in Eire |
| 23 | When he was nominated for alderman in January 1642 , there was some trouble about his unwillingness to take the oath of supremacy and allegiance , but he was eventually sworn in . |
| 24 | TOMORROW he heads for Bridport in Dorset — a real 26-mile marathon . |
| 25 | I understand the emotional pull that devolution has for people in Scotland , but I hope that every Scot will examine very carefully what it would mean in practice for Scotland and for the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Inter-departmental squabbles are blamed for failures in India ( Bali 1974 ; Ranganathan 1978 ) . |
| 27 | When he reported for duty in Simla , then the headquarters of the meteorological department , he had no knowledge of the subject ; he had to learn it by reading , guided by senior staff . |
| 28 | They will work with Sun on development of communications projects for nomadic computing — tying in with the work at Sun 's new FirstPerson unit ( CI No 2,119 ) , and is to use Sparc systems for all workstation products it develops for use in Russia . |
| 29 | Evans was found guilty and hanged for murder in July 1949 , protesting his innocence to the last . |
| 30 | They stopped for lunch in Bamburgh , where their table in the small restaurant had a view of the castle set on a crag above the village . |