Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation . |
| 2 | The manifesto condemned the invasion of Kuwait and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces . |
| 3 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 4 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) . |
| 6 | Unreality supervened again as Argentina fired its President Galtieri and called for the immediate withdrawal of British forces . |
| 7 | Mr Davies put his friend in his car and took him back to his flat in Highfield Road and called for an ambulance . |
| 8 | The Rutherglen Councillors were bribed by the Glasgow candidate 's supporters , as were their wives with presents of dresses and finery , but the Dixon supporters among the Rutherglen Councillors were invited down to Dumbarton and entertained for a period of ten days , including a cruise on Loch Lomond , a climb to the top of the ben and a stay at the inns at Dumbarton , Tarbet , Luss and Port of Menteith . |
| 9 | Bush denied that he had been in Paris and called for an end to the " rumour-mongering " concerning the affair . |
| 10 | Representatives were sent abroad to solicit customers , and the fixed sum was either agreed there or subsequently by letter or telex , with the documentation prepared in Hong Kong and sent for the customer 's signature . |
| 11 | They welcomed last month 's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days . |
| 12 | President Roh Tae Woo denounced the assault on Chung and called for a crackdown on student unrest . |
| 13 | Like Dean , Landau had studied the Method approach to acting devised by Stanislavski and modified for the Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg . |
| 14 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 15 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 16 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 17 | I was going to be late for Jack Mason and made for the door . |
| 18 | In their dialogue al-Hussaini refused to consider Jerusalem as separate from the West Bank and called for a unified Jerusalem as " two capitals with one municipal umbrella " . |
| 19 | In May 1948 numerous European political figures met at the Hague and called for the creation of a European parliament as well as an economic union . |
| 20 | Nothing terribly unusual about something slipping through a saleroom , yet five months earlier Sotheby 's had recently sold a similarly designed , if less beautiful , walnut writing desk by Pabst ( designed by the great Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and made for the Philadelphia philanthropist Henry C. Gibson ) . |
| 21 | On the same day its leader Raúl Ubalbini addressed a rally of an estimated 30,000 workers in Buenos Aires and called for a general strike on Nov. 15 . |