Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT . |
| 2 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 4 | Dot asked Gloria for the powder compact she kept in her bag . |
| 5 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 6 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 7 | EDUCATION minister Michael Fallon last night revealed the five major issues at the centre of his bid to retain Darlington for the Tories . |
| 8 | I next plan to visit Cyprus for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in 1993 . |
| 9 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 10 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
| 11 | By this time the van was distinguished by a banner in the rear window proclaiming SCOTLAND FOR THE WORLD CUP ! ! and a Saltire , but sadly Scotland lost in the semi-final and FOR THE WORLD CUP was quietly removed ! |
| 12 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 13 | The first generation approach to interface design within the UGIX project has been to prototype using Hypercard for the Apple Macintosh , where the Hypercard application ( complete with in-built communications software ) acts as a client to a host processor ‘ running the GIS application software . |
| 14 | ICL Plc chose Paris for the launch of what it called its biggest ever collection of personal computers and related products yesterday : the new ErgoLite desktops and notebooks and Ergo-Pro notebook to ErgoView terminals which come with a variety of ‘ personalities ’ or emulations — no prizes for guessing that the company is pushing the new product line 's ergonomic design . |
| 15 | ICL Plc chose Paris for the launch of what it called its biggest ever collection of personal computers and related products last week : the new ErgoLite desktops and note books and Ergo-Pro notebook to ErgoView terminals which come with a variety of ‘ personalities ’ or emulations — no prizes for guessing that the company is pushing the new product line 's ergonomic design . |
| 16 | Ten years later Darius 's son Xerxes led a great invasion to conquer Greece for the empire . |
| 17 | All three lost one of their eight matches , but when it went to the frames count-back All Ireland champion Watson was the group winner with Dale pipping Sharpe for the crucial second place . |
| 18 | If the proposed LF fails to pass these tests then reference resolution will generate other resolved LFs for the QLF ; if all such proposed LFs fail the tests , reference resolution consumes another scoped QLF , and so on . |
| 19 | It would be good for each of us to take time this week to thank God for the work of world mission that was revived in 1792 through the effort of William Carey and those around him . |
| 20 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 21 | Actual railway operations , however , did not begin until 5 January 1904 , when a special train left Oswestry for the ceremony which took place at Porthywaen Station . |
| 22 | Naturally , what the duke had in mind was his own political interest , and his managers duly picked a man named Hamilton for the vacant charge , a gentleman whose brother was a bailie of one of the royal burghs in which the Montrose faction took an interest . |
| 23 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
| 24 | The vice-president of the European Parliament , David Martin , the Labour MEP for Lothian , welcomed the move to put pressure on the Government to introduce PR for the European elections . |
| 25 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 26 | The Iranians , too , were making very hopeful noises that improved relations , which must include British support for a UN resolution blaming Iraq for the Iran-Iraq War , would encourage them to help secure our release . |
| 27 | Relations between the two countries improved in 1985 when the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Indonesia for the commemorative Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung ; later that year a memorandum of understanding on the resumption of direct trade links was signed [ see p. 34235 ] . |
| 28 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 29 | He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 . |
| 30 | Do you pause from time to time to thank God for the hundred and one tiny joys that make up each day ? |