Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biggart says : ‘ The Northwest promotion , which offered two for the price of one tickets to 74 international destinations , met the prerequisite for a successful sales promotion . |
| 2 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 3 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 4 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 5 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 6 | An order by Yeltsin on Oct. 28 disbanded the Directorate for the Protection of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Government , which the liberal press described as an armed formation of up to 5,000 men , under the personal command of Khasbulatov . |
| 7 | Its dictator , President Siad Barre , ditched the Russians for the better-heeled Americans . |
| 8 | Wenner ditched the piece for the American edition . |
| 9 | The team modelled the relationship for the Sherwood reservoir so data collected during drilling could be used to automatically generate estimates of permeability . |
| 10 | Even so , the machine drill certainly speeded up drilling operations though it also lessened the need for a previously vital part of the miner 's essential skill . |
| 11 | In the final session we agreed the basis for a ‘ declaration ’ to the informal meeting of EC Environment Ministers being held in Denmark later this month . |
| 12 | An Alton rider also shared the award for the fastest composite team , with M. Tuero of Alton CC and M. Sparkes and Antelope Racing recording 53 mins. 04 . |
| 13 | It is a measure of Quisling 's obstinacy that he was back as ‘ premier ’ — albeit the puppet of Reichskommissar Josef Terboven — within two years , thus ensuring that he shared the guilt for the occupation war-crimes for which he was duly shot in 1945 . |
| 14 | Four members of staff shared the honours for the show 's success . |
| 15 | Then , she shared the prize for a novel , Wmffra , but this year wins outright for Tisio Tshipsan ? a novel aimed at the 9–12 age group , published at £2.50 by Gwasg Gomer . |
| 16 | Tribe mistook the signal for the ‘ enemy aircraft ’ warning , and searched the sky . |
| 17 | He had a full scrip of the small white flowers when he made the journey for the seventh time , and saw the three riders pace in at the gatehouse , and stood unobserved to watch Tutilo dismount , part amicably from his guards , and come wearily towards the gatehouse door , as if he would himself take the key and deliver himself dutifully back to his captivity . |
| 18 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |
| 19 | Mark Hateley scored the first and made the second for the prolific Ally McCoist to deliver the riches of the Champions ' League into the already bulging coffers of the Glasgow club . |
| 20 | Her mind made the sacrifice for the sake of screaming flesh and she conceded defeat with a blistering fury , rage a fever in her eyes , darkening their colour to sherry . |
| 21 | Englishman Robert Hynam made the clock for the Russian Court at St Petersburg in 1760 . |
| 22 | Historians and political scientists like Arthur Schlesinger and Clinton Rossiter repeatedly made the case for an all-powerful president well able to provide effective leadership not only in international affairs , but on the domestic front as well . |
| 23 | A security official said : ‘ They made the crossing for a bet . ’ |
| 24 | Before the Bench , Mr Sloan 's Counsel , Lynda Clarke , QC , made the request for the move away from Orkney . |
| 25 | It made the need for the establishment of some form of centralized and rational planning of public sector higher education even more urgent and , in the short term , it led the DES to set up a working group to overcome the important technical problems which the arbitrary capping of the pool had created . |
| 26 | However McAleese kicked another penalty for Ballymena and made the running for an unconverted try by Paul McBride before Hawick staged a late recovery . |
| 27 | The Guardian newspaper , in partnership with the Royal Institute for the Blind and associates has launched a system that enables the entire editorial text of the newspaper to be transmitted nightly via Teletext on Channel 4 television 's frequencies to a personal computer , which can read the text in a synthesised voice to blind and partially sighted people : those that can afford an £8,000 Braille terminal can also read the text that way , and it can also be displayed in large print on the screen for those with poor sight ; the text is structured so that readers can scan the headlines and choose the items that interest them ; the paper will be marketed , serviced and supported by Electronic Text Networks Associates Ltd of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , a commercial venture one third owned by the Guardian and the charity ; the other shareholders , each with a third share , are Aptech Ltd , which specialises in computer aids for disabled people , and Intelligent Research Ltd , which made the hardware for the system ; the decoder board for the personal computer is £400 , plus about £500 for a speech synthesizer ; the annual subscription to the electronic paper is £160 and the partners hope that other papers will decide to go onto the system . |
| 28 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 29 | He lowered the threshold for the highest rate of income tax in real terms , but otherwise the budget hardly changed the income-tax system . |
| 30 | She lowered the glasses for an instant so that he could see her eyes , then raised them again . |