Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family have previously written to former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker asking for information , but were left none the wiser . |
| 2 | Health issues ( for example , The Terrence Higgins Trust campaigning for AIDS relief ) and human well-being ( fund-raising to cushion famine ) follow close behind . |
| 3 | The S.P. Lee will spend a month on the Ross Sea shelf looking for oil-bearing rocks . |
| 4 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 5 | Top cosmetic surgeon Anthony Erian says he turns away more than half the people who walk into his Harley Street consulting rooms looking for a new image . |
| 6 | Board demands : Trustees representing the interests of the Ferranti family have written to chairman Sir Derek Alun-Jones asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors . |
| 7 | a student at Thames Valley College studying for the HCIMA Professional Diploma , was the 1991 winner of the Booker Fitch Award . |
| 8 | A United States journalist working for the Tampa Tribune , Todd Smith , was kidnapped in the Upper Huallaga valley on Nov. 17 and subsequently found beaten and murdered in Uchiza , accused of being a US spy . |
| 9 | Among the happiest band of travellers are 5,000 St Johnstone fans heading for the seaside and a match against Ayr United which will decide the First Division Championship . |
| 10 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 11 | CCG run staff catering for the Royal Bank of Scotland at four locations in Edinburgh , and it is a pleasure to be involved with an organisation that thinks of food as an essential ingredient of daily working life . |
| 12 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 13 | The man 's global standing was summed up by the fact that he had the whole of Cardiff Arms Park standing for an ovation that tingled your spine . |
| 14 | Getting into the Christmas mood : the Oxford Bach Choir performing for late night shoppers at Blackwells Music shop in Broad Street |
| 15 | He wrote to the Lord Treasurer Rochester begging for appointment to Exeter in preference to Bristol , as the bishopric of Exeter yielded better stipends with which to pay off family debts . |
| 16 | In 1967 , a progressive candidate , backed by the Communist Party , won the elections , but again the military fraudulently imposed their own candidate , The PCS split , with Salvador Cayetano Carpio opting for armed struggle . |
| 17 | That means there 'll be two British , England 's , for Great Britain heavyweight boxers fighting for World title . |
| 18 | " Is it not clear that our MPs have flagrantly broken the declared policy of the Party ? " asked a London Division statement calling for the disciplining of the Parliamentary representatives . |
| 19 | A St. Annes car heading for Blackpool along the long straight of Lytham Road before the First World War : notice the absence of traffic ! |
| 20 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 21 | Great Bromley parish council has written to Essex County Council asking for mature trees with stakes to be planted on a verge in Mary Lane North . |
| 22 | Since Croatia became an independent state in June 1991 , Raymond Harding , the New York lawyer acting for the Yugoslav government , has become the lawyer for the Croatian government . |
| 23 | All guests of Amsterdam Travel Service staying for four nights or more are invited for a welcome drink & a three course dinner ( drinks with meal are extra ) in one of the Karena Hotel restaurants in Amsterdam . |
| 24 | Local government elections loom in foreboding fashion during May , with the Northern Ireland Office hoping for evidence of decline in support for both Sinn Fein and Ian Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 25 | Two fish factories have secured Shetland Islands Council backing for refurbishment to European standards . |
| 26 | Most of this migration took place along colonial lines — Argentinians such as Alfredo Di Stefano playing for Real Madrid in Spain , Eusebio of Mozambique playing in Portugal for Benfica . |