Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent . |
| 2 | A NATO emergency meeting had been held in Brussels on Aug. 3 , and the USA had reportedly pressed for a possible NATO " out-of-area " military response , a theme repeated when Bush and Thatcher met NATO secretary-general Manfred Wörner in Washington on Aug. 6 . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind the fact that my constituents want a reliable and quality service , will he take steps today to confirm that the orders that are placed for the new Networker rolling stock will be supplied in the near future , for the betterment of the north-west Kent commuter ? |
| 4 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 5 | A regular flow of books and short stories followed , among them : The Mystery of the Sea ( 1902 ) ; The Jewel of Seven Stars ( 1903 ) , a tale of Egyptian reincarnation ; The Man ( 1905 ) , a melodrama ; Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving , in two volumes ( 1906 ) ; Lady Athlyne ( 1908 ) , a romance ; Snowbound ( 1908 ) , a collection of short stories ; The Lady of the Shroud ( 1909 ) , which reached its twentieth edition in 1934 ; Famous Imposters ( 1910 ) , which included the story of the Bisley Boy , believed by some to have been substituted for the future Queen Elizabeth in childhood ; and finally The Lair of the White Worm ( 1911 ) , in which he revived the legend of a gigantic serpent capable of assuming human form . |
| 6 | Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko . |
| 7 | General Motors , it seems , has not yet applied for the necessary US permision to conduct a similar exercise . |
| 8 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 9 | No name has been decided for the new UK firm . |
| 10 | He was a member of the sable team and was also selected for the tragic Munich Games . |
| 11 | Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine , which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946 . |
| 12 | Apple reportedly hopes to offer the machine at approximately Macintosh LC II prices , but it will deliver up to 30 times the LC II 's performance when running software written for the new RISC CPU 's native mode . |
| 13 | The coup though , out in the main hall , is the set of four of Prospero 's 24 Books made for the controversial Peter Greenaway film which revamps Shakespeare 's The Tempest . |
| 14 | But this is a sprawling , occasionally crawling album made for the New FADS ' fans more than Mr & Mrs Casual Punter . |
| 15 | AEA 's ability to tackle unique nuclear recovery tasks was highlighted this year when we designed , built and operated a special plant to recover the nuclear material from unused fuel made for the German THTR reactor . |
| 16 | As shopping centres prepared for a busy Saturday , anti-terrorist chief Commander David Tucker warned the IRA could strike in any major city . |
| 17 | This document describes the Change Management Procedures to be adopted for the New OED Computer Project . |
| 18 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 19 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 20 | In effect it gave the UK all the frequencies needed for a nationwide Carfax service on a dedicated lattice . |
| 21 | What is the estimate of disk storage needed for the complete OED and Supplement : |
| 22 | PARISH records , pre-1970 , are needed for the Little Budworth history project . |
| 23 | During 1902 it became evident that larger capacity cars would be needed for the main Norbury — Purley line and fifteen were ordered , ten to belong to the Corporation and five to the B.E.T . |
| 24 | A replacement is still needed for the transfer-listed David Norris and for Shane Parker , who will be out of action until June with a foot injury . |
| 25 | A black feather boa , perhaps bought for the Black Ascot , curved lavishly round to cancel any suggestion of nakedness . |
| 26 | The screw-less Albert was a make of chair , bought for the new Ronald Harwood play Reflected Glory which has its world premiere at Darlington Civic Theatre this month . |
| 27 | In their dialogue al-Hussaini refused to consider Jerusalem as separate from the West Bank and called for a unified Jerusalem as " two capitals with one municipal umbrella " . |
| 28 | In May 1984 and in March 1985 Sihanouk called for a neutralised Kampuchea with an international peacekeeping force guaranteed by the superpowers , ASEAN , Vietnam or Australia/New Zealand . |
| 29 | A draft resolution , aimed at balancing governments ' claims to sovereignty and the right of suffering people to receive assistance , called for a supreme UN co-ordinator to make humanitarian aid available , if need be , without a formal request by the concerned government though not without its consent . |
| 30 | The Kirgiz leader , Masaliev , called for a unitary USSR with a strong centre ; most other republican first secretaries , however , called for a renewed federation , and the Armenian leader Movsisyan went for the more radical idea of the USSR as a union of sovereign states based upon a network of bilateral associations . |