Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 2 | Traditionally , we have looked for causes of learning difficulty in the child . |
| 3 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 4 | The Eastern Shawnee and the Miami tribes in Oklahoma , the Northern Arapahoe Economic Development Commission in Wyoming , the Ponca Industrial Corporation in Texas , the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota , and the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado have applied for grants of $100,000 each . |
| 5 | Old Colwyn Sunday League clubs West Shore and Hotpoint Reserves have applied for membership of the Subaru Vale of Conwy League . |
| 6 | Some Christians have called for representation of workers on the board of directors , joint decision-making at all levels within the company , the break-up of oligopolies , a restriction on the number of directorships any one person can hold ( the suggested number is three ) and restrictions on the directors of financial corporations holding directorships in non-financial corporations , and vice versa . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what initiatives Her Majesty 's Government have proposed for reform of the United Nations . |
| 8 | However the influence of television practice is strong and many publishers of classroom video materials for language teaching have opted for continuity of character , an ongoing story and a repeated format . |
| 9 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |