Example sentences of "on [noun] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 2 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 3 | Most workers find it convenient to record their sieving analysis data systematically on forms designed for the purpose . |
| 4 | At Anderson 's a Georgian inlaid mahogany chest on chest went for the princely price of £1,300 while A Victorian 4 foot 6 inc bed with raised back made £1,100 and a Georgian inlaid mahogany serpentine front library table realised £1,050 . |
| 5 | Victory by four points or more will put them on course to qualify for the European Championship finals in Germany in 1993 — England 's first appearance in the tournament since 1981 . |
| 6 | Now we have to beat Portugal and Italy at Ibrox before the end of the year to get ourselves back on course to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 7 | FRANCE remained on course to qualify for the World Cup finals when they beat Finland 2–0 in |
| 8 | The Barclay and Cumberledge reports on social work and nursing respectively laid strong emphasis on patch-based working for the 1980s . |
| 9 | Concentrate on essentials Go for the main points of the lecture , not details . |
| 10 | An advance party is due to leave Ipswich Airport on Monday to prepare for the installation of X-ray equipment at a hospital in the city of Cluj . |
| 11 | The area on disk allocated for the file is well used — very critical for large files . |
| 12 | America and its European and Russian allies , in disarray , were set to agree only on UN monitors for the Bosnian-Serbian border . |
| 13 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The government on Aug. 18 approved a bill on privatization providing for the establishment of approximately 20 investment funds in the form of joint stock companies to manage some 400 enterprises . |
| 16 | The government on Aug. 18 approved a bill on privatization providing for the establishment of approximately 20 investment funds in the form of joint stock companies to manage some 400 enterprises . |
| 17 | US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady denied reports that Treasury officials had sought an accord on currency " target zones " in an effort to bring international pressure to bear on fluctuation ranges for the German mark . |
| 18 | A key section on trade called for the EC and Japan to have " equitable access to their respective markets and to remove obstacles , whether structural or other , impeding the expansion of trade , on the basis of comparable opportunities " . |
| 19 | Each sector is made up of 6 specialist units plus 3 units based on standards developed for the NQV Level 2 Business Administration award . |
| 20 | Realizing that there was little chance of getting into such a defended area undetected , they decided to make for the rendezvous , contenting themselves with placing their bombs on vehicles parked for the night alongside the road . |
| 21 | Cages may be held on wall-mounted racks , allowing easy floor cleaning and the recapture of escaped animals , or on trolleys designed for the purpose . |
| 22 | IBM Corp is to begin distributing AIX/6000 on CD-ROM , making the product easier to install , it says : IBM has also announced price reductions on memory upgrades for the RS/6000 of up to 41% . |
| 23 | The introduction of the reusable parish coffin in the sixteenth century signalled a marked improvement in the decoration on coffins supplied for the nobility and gentry : in this way the class differential persisted well after death . |
| 24 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 25 | The announcement was unnecessary under City disclosure rules and bank-watchers immediately interpreted the Hanson statement as an invitation to anyone with designs on Morgan to bid for the stake . |