Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 2 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 3 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 4 | On December 12th Mr Vicari called for an extraordinary general meeting to clear up the uncertainty over the firm 's future . |
| 5 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 6 | Today in the Commons the Tory MP and spy writer , Rupert Allason called for an immediate investigation into the latest findings . |
| 7 | Unwisely Spain intrigued for an anti-British coalition as she intrigued for an anti-American coalition in 1898 ; as Wellington observed , Spain acted ‘ as if Europe were at her feet ’ . |
| 8 | A curator bonis , an administrator appointed by a court in Scotland to act for an incapacitated person , may open a Tessa on behalf of an incapacitated person provided that person is aged 18 or over . |
| 9 | According to Kyodo , Zou asked for an early resumption of the 1990-95 loan package . |
| 10 | This jogging last-of-the-summer-wine single sees singer Jarvis apologising for an imagined ( we hope ) boyhood affair . |
| 11 | His Petersburg counts for an awful lot . |
| 12 | Solanki 's resignation , the first by a member of the current government , led opposition parties in the Lok Sabha to call for an immediate motion of censure against the government . |
| 13 | In a press conference held after the final meeting on Sept. 10 Hun Sen called for an immediate ceasefire in Cambodia . |
| 14 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 15 | As the verdict was announced Papandreou called for an immediate general election , claiming that the Greek electorate had been deceived and that the ND 's April 1990 election victory had been " the fruit of conscious deception of the voters " . |
| 16 | Papandreou called for an early general election ( elections were not due until 1994 ) , describing the conservative New Democracy ( ND ) administration as " an operetta government " ; it was ready to sell everything , he said , " even the Acropolis " , and had brought the country to the edge of bankruptcy , put democracy at risk , and made poverty and unemployment " a daily reality " . |
| 17 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 18 | Ipswich moved swiftly out of defence and slung six passes together , with Youngs , Fry and Colleen Adcock all involved , before Bamfield crossed for an ecstatic Lister . |
| 19 | Search for Britain 's political vision William Wallace calls for an imaginative response from Westminster to the events which are changing Europe 's landscape . |
| 20 | The AIBS Refugee Office has written to Kenneth Clarke and Junior Home Office Minister Charles Wardle calling for an early meeting to discuss its concerns over the content of the new Asylum Bill . |
| 21 | Both measures had been designed to help Britain pay for an extended and expensive war with France . |
| 22 | In fact , Milton 's skipper , Paul Storey hacked the ball off his own line in twelve minutes as Bishops looked for an early goal . |
| 23 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 24 | Donlevy ‘ lorded it over everybody else ’ and exasperated Ray Milland so much that during a fencing sequence , Milland aimed for an unpadded spot on Donlevy , managing to draw blood . |
| 25 | I commute from Dunfermline to Edinburgh to work for an enlightened firm of architects which designed into its office a shower facility , which allows me to cycle in all weathers . |
| 26 | Aluminium would be in breach of EC limits for an unknown number of years in Northumbrian Water 's region . |
| 27 | Now O'Brien hopes for an international recall for the World Cup qualifier in Denmark . |
| 28 | Billy English stood for an English clan wider than his immediate family . |
| 29 | No. 21E ( formerly 46 ) is recorded as being sent to Charlton Works for an annual overhaul in October 1933 and returned to Thornton Heath in ‘ L.C.C . |
| 30 | They were not properly cared for , and by May this year there was widespread malnutrition in the camps — despite the fact that the UNHCR provided for an assumed 600,000 refugees , almost double the true number . |