Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 2 | Such orders put into the shade the contracts British Telecom has placed for single-mode fibre . |
| 3 | As published in the newspaper Borba on Dec. 15 , 1989 , this document announced that " the end has come for authoritarian socialism " and stated that the LCY supported freedom of assembly and speech and all other civil liberties " regardless of political convictions " . |
| 4 | He has prepared for civilian life by going on a butcher 's course . |
| 5 | The ITC made the determination and it would be inappropriate for me to comment upon the matter , especially as I believe that it is now sub judice , because the company has applied for judicial review . |
| 6 | The NRA has applied for discretionary rate relief but Mr Clark is urging councillors to refuse . |
| 7 | The NRA has applied for discretionary rate relief but Mr Clark is opposing the plan . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't explain how I feel in words and I do n't know what the future holds , ’ said Tamas , who has been granted political asylum and has applied for Hungarian citizenship . |
| 9 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 10 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 11 | A COUNCIL poised to lose £1m in benefit aid has appealed for Parliamentary help . |
| 12 | The organisation has called for international pressure to be brought to end the trade in South Korea , Taiwan , China and Thailand , where horn is sold openly . |
| 13 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 14 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 15 | SHELTER has called for urgent legislation to protect people buying their homes on ‘ rental purchase ’ — a form of credit . |
| 16 | A committee of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has called for urgent action to reduce the incidence of acute pesticide poisoning in developing countries . |
| 17 | Alan Milburn , Labour 's prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Darlington , has called for urgent action . |
| 18 | The former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has called for military intervention by NATO to end the fighting in Bosnia . |
| 19 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Tory group on Darlington council , says litter and pollution in the river is as bad as ever and has called for swift action . |
| 20 | The Dalai Lama , who fled to exile in India after a failed uprising in 1959 , has called for Tibetan autonomy over domestic affairs , with China retaining control over military and diplomatic affairs . |
| 21 | English Nature , the statutory body advising the government on environmental issues , has called for improved protection of marine wildlife in 27 environmentally sensitive areas of coastline . |
| 22 | AN MP has called for improved security at a school following a spate of vandalism . |
| 23 | An MP has called for judicial thrashing and the return of the stocks to combat juvenile crime . |
| 24 | Norway 's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland has called for tough carbon taxes to protect the global environment at the biennial Offshore Northern Seas oil and gas conference in Stavanger . |
| 25 | Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions . |
| 26 | Ekstrom has played for Italian club Empoli , Bayern Munich and French club Cannes during his career . |
| 27 | Howard Schuman has adapted for Working Title Armisted Maupin 's TALES FROM THE CITY ( 1991 ) and written for Independents Birmingham , FUN AND DRAMA ; LIFE AND DREAMS . |
| 28 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 29 | The council has asked for nonperishable food and basic medicines to add to the convoy of aid soon to depart for Russia . |
| 30 | No more representative body could be collected than that which at Milan has declared for oral teaching of the deaf — and nothing but oral teaching … |