Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 2 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 3 | Lionel Elvin , Director of the University of London Institute of Education , had , as a member of the Robbins Committee , framed its recommendations for the teacher training colleges ( as they were called before the committee 's recommendation that they be renamed colleges of education ) to be brought within the universities ' ambit . |
| 4 | The Congress , in giving a high priority to agreements with Arab countries , affirmed its support for the consolidation of the Arab Maghreb Union [ see pp. 36474 ; 37200-01 ] and for the Palestinian intifada . |
| 5 | It should allow access by different fields , so that , for example , a teacher should be able to inquire whether a particular item has arrived in the library by identifying the author or the title of the item or by giving the name of the teacher who recommended its acquisition for the school library . |
| 6 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 7 | On April 8 the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) announced its support for the ultimatum . |
| 8 | The price of land there has skyrocketed since Nagano announced its bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics " . |
| 9 | On April 27th Euro Disney , which runs a big amusement park outside Paris modeled on American ones owned by its parent firm , Walt Disney , announced its results for the six months to the end of March 1993 . |
| 10 | In 1916 , a special committee produced its recommendations for the precautions to be taken in the event of an air raid . |
| 11 | Will the Secretary of State respond to a question that I have put several times since the Select Committee on Science and Technology in another place produced its recommendations for the Government ? |
| 12 | Perez de Cuellar was quite justified in saying that , once the US got its cover for the action , the UN has n't been consulted , they have n't even been informed until well after decisions have been taken , and actions have followed . |
| 13 | Regarding environmental issues , the Group of Seven in the final declaration ( i ) committed itself to undertake " common efforts to limit emissions of greenhouse gases " ; ( ii ) reiterated its support for the negotiation of a " framework convention on climate change " under the auspices of the UN ; ( iii ) committed itself to negotiating a " global forest convention " in order to curb deforestation and protect biological diversity ; and ( iv ) agreed to co-operate with Brazil on a programme to protect the tropical rain forests in that country . |
| 14 | The PNC reiterated its support for the peace plan it had approved in 1988 [ see p. 36438 ] , which was based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 , and the guaranteeing of the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people . |
| 15 | But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh . |
| 16 | THE SCOTTISH National Party yesterday signalled its strategy for the 1990 regional council elections and the next general election by accusing Labour of swallowing ‘ Thatcher values ’ . |
| 17 | When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel . |
| 18 | Reaffirmed its support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation as the ‘ sole legitimate representative ’ of the Palestinian people and stated that it should play a full role in a UN conference to negotiate a settlement to the Middle East conflict . |
| 19 | China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year . |
| 20 | The Security Council also confirmed its support for the role played by Pérez de Cuéllar , explicitly requesting him " to assist the two communities by making suggestions to facilitate the discussions " , and calling on both communities to co-operate with him " on an equal footing " . |
| 21 | To coincide with the study 's publication , the council renewed its call for the Data Protection Act to be amended to enable individuals to see any file on them kept by the league . |
| 22 | The ‘ Russian Unity ’ faction , which includes around 300 of the 1,000 deputies , renewed its call for the ‘ government of market experimenters ’ to resign . |
| 23 | The Moroccan Organization of Human Rights on Aug. 3 denounced the government 's policy of " political detention " and " inhuman prison conditions " , while on Aug. 7 Amnesty International renewed its call for the " immediate release of all army personnel held in secret beyond the expiry of their sentence , for over 17 years " , a reference to some 60 people said to be still detained under conditions of " rigorous imprisonment " at an isolated fortress in Tazmamart . |
| 24 | THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed . |
| 25 | The new government quickly showed its enthusiasm for the private medical sector which was growing rapidly in 1979 , and in 1980 Gerard Vaughan , Minister of Health , expressed the belief that it might grow to around one quarter of the size of the NHS . |
| 26 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |
| 27 | On the outbreak of war one week later , the Communist Party hesitated and then reversed its support for the war into an appeal for a " people 's peace " . |
| 28 | The pamphlet began its argument for the dependence of harmony and order on the recognition of man 's true nature by distinguishing man from other animals . |
| 29 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 30 | Since this was Keith Jones ' last committee meeting , the committee expressed its gratitude for the valuable contributions he had made to the committee . |