Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 2 | The DCR on Oct. 2 called for the annulment of the elections on grounds of fraud . |
| 3 | This called for the halting of large-scale FMLN military offensives which could jeopardize the UN peace process . |
| 4 | This called for the withdrawal of the National Executive memorandum abolishing the League 's national organization . |
| 5 | This called for the expertise of the Pessarane Behesht . |
| 6 | This called for the establishment of a multi-party political system in place of the present one-party state , with a ban on parties based on just one ethnic group . |
| 7 | The Minister told us that clause 12 provided for the Secretary of State to take into account representations made by those who administer the pension scheme in question . |
| 8 | This provided for the return to private ownership of over 30 state-owned companies , many of them founded by Juan Perón himself , including air and shipping lines , railways , coal and oil and posts and telecommunications companies , utilities and radio and television stations . |
| 9 | This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies . |
| 10 | Paradoxically , this provided for the possibility of voluntary unemployment , an anathema to the capitalist class , and so the conditions under which men 's claims to maintenance from the state were met were such as to weaken male work incentives as little as possible , and ideally to discourage men from making a claim at all , except in the direst circumstances . |
| 11 | This provided for the withdrawal of federal forces from the strategic Prevlaka peninsula overlooking Dubrovnik by Oct. 20 . |
| 12 | When immaturity and , more especially , insanity came to be accepted as making people less responsible , this allowed for the possibility that , for some offenders at least , personal characteristics ( or defects ) could be seen as both differentiating them from other people and causing their criminality . |
| 13 | Godoy on July 10 called for the establishment of a " National Salvation Commission " to organize armed resistance to the Sandinistas . |
| 14 | We make 200,000 cars a year and export 70,000 of them so there 's not much left for the home market and people have to apply one year in advance to buy one . |
| 15 | The Railways Act of 1921 called for the establishment of four groups in Britain . |
| 16 | A meeting of the SCS early in 1917 called for the dismissal of Lord Devonport , the first Food Controller , who had made his fortune in wholesale grocery and was vehemently opposed to cooperation : |
| 17 | A letter from the Ministry of Health in March 1946 called for the Council 's proposals for the improvement of hospital accommodation in the subsequent five years , during which the building of new hospitals would probably not be possible . |
| 18 | Similarly , the New Towns Act of 1946 provided for the setting up of Development |
| 19 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 20 | These provided for the introduction of value added tax ( VAT ) at 5 per cent on essential goods and services and at 23 per cent on other goods . |
| 21 | These allowed for the use of up to five pairs of stones . |
| 22 | Some urged the impossibility of miracles , and the inadequacy of the Old Testament chronology , and all pressed for the treatment of the Bible like any other ancient writing . |
| 23 | Now I idled in the yellow light of closed banks , municipality and bad business all done for the day . |
| 24 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 25 | They were all written for The Lord of the Rings alone . |
| 26 | 360 , when they were all demolished for the erection of a stone corridor villa and a large barn . |
| 27 | At the close of hostilities that evening A.H.Q. Malta issued a communique stating that since the beginning of the fighting over the island , Malta 's defences had been credited with 132 destroyed , 44 probably destroyed and 58 damaged for the loss of 29 fighters , ten of the pilots having been saved . |
| 28 | In October 1991 Amnesty International called for the release of 11 members of the South African human rights organization Black Sash , detained in the nominally independent ‘ homeland ’ of Bophuthatswana . |
| 29 | A resolution of 22 March 1792 provided for the erection of temporary stabling for 50 horses , to which were to be added later a lecture theatre and a dissecting room . |
| 30 | — The 30-strong British Olympic swimming team , including Samantha Purvis ( Stockton Aquatics ) , Samantha Foggo ( Newcastle ) and Ian Wilson ( Sunderland ) , are all entered for the Optrex National Championships , which start in Sheffield today and end on Sunday . |