Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 26 July 1986 Father Lawrence Jenco was released after being held hostage for 18 months . |
| 2 | The Saudi Arabian ambassador to Yemen and an adviser were rescued by security sources on April 20 after being held hostage for 18 hours . |
| 3 | The club are already struggling to pay £75,000 in fines to the Football League after being fined £50,000 for not keeping proper financial books . |
| 4 | On this day : Lucius Plancus founded Lyons , 43 BC ; rioters burnt down Nottingham Castle , 1831 ; Henry Morton Stanley met Dr Livingstone , Ujiji 1871 ; the Savoy Theatre opened with a performance of Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan , London 1881 ; Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess opened in New York City , 1935 ; Tristan da Cunha islanders were evacuated following a volcanic eruption , 1961 ; the XVIIIth Olympic Games opened in Tokyo , 1964 ; Fiji became independent , 1970 ; Sir John Betjeman became Poet Laureate , 1972 ; Spiro Agnew resigned as US Vice-President after being fined $10,000 for income tax evasion , 1973 ; in the General Election , Labour was returned with an overall majority of three , 1974 . |
| 5 | Jansher , who was already on probation after being fined £200 for walking out of the Kuala Lumpur World Open dinner in October , has clearly reached a point of no return with his conduct . |
| 6 | But yesterday the newspaper delivery man walked free from Wimbledon Court , South London , after being fined £200 for indecent exposure . |
| 7 | Despite being fined £500 for making foul and abusive comments to match officials whilst managing Doncaster Rovers , Bremner wielded a rod of discipline and rarely bothered to reflect on his image as a rogue newly attuned to respectability . |
| 8 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 9 | He said : ’ Sterling looks set to be masticated by EMUs , ERMs and ECUs before being made fodder for that monetary successor to the Panzer , the Deutsches Bundesbank . ’ |
| 10 | The former ferry steward , who rose through the National Union of Seaman before being elected MP for Hull , wears every thought and feeling on his sleeve . |
| 11 | To many pacifists , the conscientious objectors appeared to be substituting self-righteousness for any coherent thinking about the likely consequences of their actions . |
| 12 | The fifteen-year-old sister , Jojo , played by Karin Fernald , is later revealed to be getting supplies for the stable by servicing the farmers of the district . |
| 13 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 14 | Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule . |
| 15 | AS A LEAD-UP to the World Cup , I thought I would check to see who can rightly claim to be called favourites for the tournament . |
| 16 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 17 | I took this to be written approval for the project to go ahead and I believe , in view of the wording , that I was quite justified in doing so . |
| 18 | I took this to be written approval for the project to go ahead and I believe , in view of the wording , that I was perfectly justified in doing so . |
| 19 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 20 | So far , with Worrell having turned down the chance , no one had been able to complain about the captaincy ; but by now Worrell had his degree , was very much available , and Alexander himself expected him to be made captain for the tour by England in 1959–60 . |
| 21 | But then she was planning to go on the stage and was already reputed to be collecting points for the Equity card . |
| 22 | Penny Duce of the Poetry Library , who recently visited Lending Services said that the Library would be pleased to accept requests for books on BL forms , but that she did not expect to be borrowing material for SPL itself . |
| 23 | Still , Lazaroni has to be given credit for absorbing the pan-Europeanism of his squad into something the Europeans will need to be aware of in Italy . |
| 24 | Dr Van Vliet wants the growing countries , including Burma , China , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines and Thailand , to be given help for artificial propagation when the trade in wild plants is banned . |
| 25 | Therefore , argue Trist et al. , the work group has to be given responsibility for the entire cycle of operations , and for handling the interdependence between those on different shifts . |
| 26 | After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils . |
| 27 | The last thing most of these people want is to be given reasons for changing their minds . |
| 28 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 29 | The National Curriculum subjects will therefore have to be given priority for resources , especially where schools have not offered the full curriculum to all pupils , or in primary schools which may have done little science and technology . |
| 30 | In its post-World War II Circulars , the Department of Education stated explicitly that the children of working mothers were not to be given priority for nursery education . |