Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Garry Gibson said yesterday : ‘ Baker wants to leave for personal and not professional reasons . |
| 2 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 3 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 4 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 5 | Aware of the continuity of German history and bearing in mind the special responsibility arising from our past for a democratic development in Germany committed to respect for human rights and to peace , |
| 6 | Such orders put into the shade the contracts British Telecom has placed for single-mode fibre . |
| 7 | Howard Schuman has adapted for Working Title Armisted Maupin 's TALES FROM THE CITY ( 1991 ) and written for Independents Birmingham , FUN AND DRAMA ; LIFE AND DREAMS . |
| 8 | Most of the 5,000 graduates each year in Northern Ireland choose to work for large firms , for the public sector , or enter the professions . |
| 9 | If prices rise as high as 135p to 140p Robert Giles recommends selling for non-priority shareholders . |
| 10 | Azerbaijan , Armenia , Byelarus , Moldova and Ukraine had applied for similar status . |
| 11 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 12 | On 1 June , Thorneycroft warned that because of the possibility of an Autumn election , Heath had asked for interim reports by the end of the month . |
| 13 | Jannink have opted for limited editions ( 300 numbered copies , with a lithograph , at FFr480 ) of previously unpublished writings by artists : Erro , Monory , Soulages , Martial Raysse . |
| 14 | The presently non-binding agreement calls for IBM to subscribe $500,000 for new shares at the placing price of 65 pence , giving IBM 2.7% , and to grant IBM warrants to subscribe for sufficient additional shares to represent a total of 10% of the enlarged equity , also at 65 pence a share , subject to adjustments . |
| 15 | The managing director of the International Monetary Fund , Michel Camdessus , agreed on Aug. 17 during a three-day visit to Tallinn to provide backing for Estonian economic reforms with financial credits and other support worth up to US$40,000,000 . |
| 16 | In his first public speech as EC Environment Commissioner , Karel van Miert has called for common environmental norms to be applied across the EC , with a view to maintaining environmental standards without infringing the Community 's commitment to free trade between member states . |
| 17 | No more representative body could be collected than that which at Milan has declared for oral teaching of the deaf — and nothing but oral teaching … |
| 18 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're too hot , ’ continued Jenny , lifting the coat Billie had placed for extra warmth on her bed . |
| 20 | Werewolf had opted for clear plastic goggles but he had already dispensed with them , tying them to his belt . |
| 21 | The priest had to act as both choirmaster and precentor , setting the pitch and intoning the first line of each hymn , as well as training his people to sing the Merbecke setting which Father Jackson had adapted for Burmese use . |
| 22 | It offers the classic trio to protect against infection : a scanner to search files for viruses , a checksummer to check if a file has been altered , and a TSR monitor to check for suspicious activity . |
| 23 | One day , perhaps , somebody will attempt to do for English armies what Contamine has done for French ones . |
| 24 | The former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has called for military intervention by NATO to end the fighting in Bosnia . |
| 25 | Peter Hough ran through his investigation into a photograph of what appears to be an alien clutching an intergalactic attaché case on Ilkley Moor in a slide show which was like a conceptual exercise in boredom ( ‘ Here 's a slide of the letter I sent asking to hire a Geiger counter to search for radioactive traces left on the moor by the alien … |
| 26 | Mary Ann insisted on hearing every detail of the auction over tea , and afterwards , to oblige her , Mungo and Emily went to search for new-laid eggs on the batters . |
| 27 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 28 | Moore , Moore had applied for supplementary benefits during the university vacation . |
| 29 | It was important to make available the hidden resources in nature that God had created for suffering humanity . |
| 30 | Danny 's paid for new curtains to go up ! |