Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] for [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
2 | When Coolidge declined to run for a further term in 1928 , the Republicans chose as their candidate one of the most distinguished members of their administrations in the 1920s , Herbert Hoover . |
3 | The local Parties , growing in strength , began to ask for a greater voice in decisions than was allowed under the 1918 constitution . |
4 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
5 | The long-standing US-Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program , which the National Science Foundation and the Japanese government pay for , decided to look for a cheaper way of doing things . |
6 | On Aug. 12 the UN Security Council decided to renew for a further 120 days the sanctions which had been imposed against Libya in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |