Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 2 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 3 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 4 | Knowing that the Irish police would have come to Billy for the key . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're confined to barracks for the time being , Private Nobody . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , had these two phenomena been directly proportional , the decreases should have amounted to 80% for the transcripts of all involved genes . |
| 7 | Each opens with thanks addressed to Jesus for the particular incident of the Passion under consideration and closes with a prayer which first applies this incident to aspects of the meditator 's own life and then modulates into a set pattern indicated by the Latin directives Pater Noster , Et ne nos , Adoramus , Aue [ Our Father , And [ lead ] us not , we praise , Hail ] . |
| 8 | At the dinner in the evening , awards will be presented to companies for the quality of their investor relations . |
| 9 | Gardiner was convicted and sentenced to life for the killing … and the armed robbery case was not proceeded with . |
| 10 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 11 | Two illiterate Zulu youths , Zakhele Mbatha and Nicholas Dlamini , were sentenced to death for the murder . |
| 12 | Sentenced to death for the casual murder of two teenage boys in San Diego in 1978 , Harris had lodged numerous appeals , several of which had been considered by the Supreme Court . |
| 13 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 14 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 15 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 16 | At the World Administrative Radio Conference ( WARC ) at Torremolinos , which ended on 3rd March , the main amateur interest related to allocations for the 7MHz band . |
| 17 | Much of London society had moved to Brussels for the summer , there were army officers who would be mortified if they were not invited , and there was the local aristocracy who had to be entertained . |
| 18 | However , billings have risen to £1.06m. for the year ended 30 June 1987 , reflecting a dramatic recovery . |
| 19 | Details of Industrial Development Authority incentives granted to Sun for the establishment of the centre in Dublin were not revealed — ‘ it is not our practice to reveal payments , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 20 | Pilger and Hayling wrote a job description outlining the editor in chief 's total power over the editor , which was to be shown to applicants for the editor 's job so they would know the position . |
| 21 | Credit account facilities offered to solicitors for the payment of Land Registry fees are a convenience in more than one way . |
| 22 | Such structures are best displayed graphically ( even parliamentary draughtsmen have resorted to flowcharts for the definition of some more complex legislation ) . |
| 23 | Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors . |
| 24 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 25 | For the rest of the period , rainfall across the country was well below normal levels , with large areas of central and southern France receiving less than 60 per cent of normal rainfall , when compared to figures for the past 30 years . |
| 26 | The average weekly income of a shareowner was £196 , compared to £118 for the survey sample as a whole , although the average of those owning shares in privatised companies alone was £168 . |
| 27 | The Citroen Furio scores on list price too , costing £10,750 compared to £13,100 for the XR3i , £11,955 for the Rover , £12,295 for the Astra and £14,495 for the Golf . |
| 28 | The most severe problem area , in the charts , seems to be a lack of clarity about the job itself — and a related lack of information needed to do the job ( 46% , compared to 70% for the Unit as a whole . ) |
| 29 | Six finalists will be chosen from the pictures by representatives from Hairflair and Supersoft and all six will be invited to London for the final judging . |
| 30 | Its subsidiaries , including interests in financial services , personal pensions , in collaboration with Colonial Mutual , and investment management , contributed to profits for the first time . |