Example sentences of "to [noun pl] ' [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | FEARS of an all-out fish war rose last night after European fisheries ministers refused to bow to catchers ' demands for a ban on imports . |
| 2 | With stories from Millbank , ICI Paints and Kodak Limited , we are also responding to readers ' requests for more information on other parts of ICI and on other companies . |
| 3 | These parents were initially delighted last year when the local council announced that , in response to parents ' campaigning for a nursery class , all four-year-olds would be offered a school place . |
| 4 | Following April 's revolution in which King Birendra had been forced to accede to protesters ' demands for major political reforms [ see pp. 37362-63 ] , the new interim government ( headed by Nepali Congress president Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ) moved to consolidate its achievements during May . |
| 5 | Such relatively minor matters as the firm 's car policy , the payment of home telephone bills and payments to partners ' wives for " secretarial " services also have to be agreed . |
| 6 | This has its problems , but it does allow a quick response to members ' requests for topics . |
| 7 | This applies profoundly to pupils ' capacity for reflective thinking . |