Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is allowed to get too hot it also produces dioxin , an unacceptable contaminant in the TCP used for manufacture of hexachlorophene . |
| 2 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 3 | He emphasised that he placed no significance on figures showing Marks & Spencer vying for competition as the UK 's leading retailer . |
| 4 | SYNOPTICS PREPARES FOR LAUNCH OF ITS ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE SWITCH WITH THREE-PHASE STRATEGY |
| 5 | A headline yesterday said , ‘ SATURDAY CANCELLED FOR LACK OF SUPPORT . ’ |
| 6 | Educated at Haileybury and Trinity College , Cambridge , Edward Maitland volunteered for service in the South African war while he was still an undergraduate . |
| 7 | Born January 14 , 1892 , in Elmira , New York , Roach prospected for gold in Alaska and drove teams of mules and horses before drifting into films as an extra in 1912 . |
| 8 | Gower booked for tour of India |
| 9 | Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him . |
| 10 | On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co . |
| 11 | In the year ending March 1991 , 2,917 students in Scotland qualified for registration as first level nurses . |
| 12 | Richard took hostages from them and then sent them and other members of their league to England to sue for mercy at his father 's feet . |
| 13 | On reaching the summit at 12.41 local time , 7.41 BST , Ms Stephens shouted for joy over a radio link to Mr Earl and her boyfriend and climbing colleague John Barry at the Advanced Base Camp Two at 23,000 ft . |
| 14 | Property : The Irish blessings worth counting Simon Courtauld looks for gold in the Emerald Isle |
| 15 | COSE SHOOTS FOR BREADTH OVER DEPTH IN DESKTOP SPEC |
| 16 | Prime Minister Narasimha Rao appealed for calm in the face of what he called a ‘ grave crisis ’ . |
| 17 | It was probably through exasperation with the lack of Anglo-American concessions that , in a speech in July 1946 , Molotov appealed for support from the German people themselves . |
| 18 | ABOVE : Oswald Parry is third from the left in the back row in this 1931 Palace team group ; BELOW : David Payne shoots for goal in the Palace match at Old Trafford on 11 April 1973 ; OPPOSITE : David celebrates with a Palace fan upon our promotion to Division One on 19 April 1969 . |
| 19 | It would be another woman from Naledi looking for work as a maid : dressed in her best in the blaring midday heat : thick cardigan and skirt , heavy shoes . |
| 20 | Aquino prepares for clash over Marcos body |
| 21 | But Lebanon 's foreign community did not view the operation with the same enthusiasm or sense of drama as Ford , who ostentatiously spent the night in the Oval Office in Washington waiting for news of the evacuation . |
| 22 | SOFFEX opened for business in May 1988 as Europe 's first fully computerised ( automated trading/clearing system ) exchange . |
| 23 | It has turned down NSPCC approaches for funding for research saying Home Office research is sufficient . |
| 24 | Sainsbury calls for reform of trading laws |
| 25 | The working party has continued to monitor the progress of the Bill and wrote to the Secretary of State in January asking for clarification of the Government 's policy on charging and access rail freight users . |
| 26 | They had Millwall running for cover in the first half and for once made the most of their superiority . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Kazakhstan voted for independence on 16 December , leaving Russia , by the end of the year , as the only republic that had not adopted a declaration of this kind ( Russia did , however , adopt a new state symbol — a version of the imperial double-headed eagle ) . |
| 29 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the Best Exercise ! ’ was what she yelled at Robert every time the Dobermann came for Badger at about thirty miles an hour with the clearly expressed intention of biting his head off . |