Example sentences of "of [noun prp] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol .
2 The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners .
3 BCRS wish to thank Mr Graham Vincent of Wolverhampton for the donation to the Society of 6 photographs of stations on the BCR , taken in 1942 .
4 And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore .
5 Stuart is having a social event on the eleventh of March for the media and the police , I 'll circulate this round with a er slip on it , erm it involves a conducted tour of the police station and some bits and bobs
6 He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States .
7 well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years .
8 From time to time the Tanganyika government proposed excision of parts of Masailand for the use of other tribes , and Masai District Officers could be relied on to oppose these proposals .
9 ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . )
10 The ringing stopped , and gave a silent thanks to St Bernadette of Lourdes for the miracle .
11 Englewood , Colorado-based Holistic Systems Inc has won Digital Equipment Corp 's marketing support for its Holos Executive Information and Decision Support System in the US : Holistic Systems will do a version of Holos for the Alpha RISC , delivering OpenVMS and OSF/1 versions of the product in early 1993 ; Holos is currently available under VAX/VMS ; the price for a typical Holos configuration begins at $50,000 , based upon system size and configuration .
12 Goddard arrived in place of Yallop for the final 11 minutes but Ipswich never looked much like pulling a goal back until injury time when Williams fired narrowly wide .
13 Chris Peat of the group Altern-8 , who is standing in his home town of Stafford for the Altern 8-ive ( Hardcore ) Party , said : ‘ It must be an omen — I won on the Grand National with Party Politics as well . ’
14 In late 1989 the government signed an agreement with Coastal Oil of Texas for the renovation of part of the Exxon refinery closed in 1985 [ see p. 33456 ] , in the expectation of resuming operations in 1991 with an initial capacity of 150,000 barrels per day .
15 Thanks to Mr. J. Pratt of Dorking for the loan of the photograph .
16 He remained curate of Wirksworth for the rest of his life , working with four successive vicars .
17 Yes , but very restricted erm in other words if you look at the history of Kuwait for the time that we received or we got our independence , we had to start our nationalisation process as an independent country .
18 Their debut British television performance recorded late last year in their home town of Seattle for The Word scored 400 complaining calls .
19 The Mid-Craven Fault is so deep that if you were to look south of Malham for the limestone that you see on Gordale Scar you would have to drill many thousands of feet below the earth 's surface before you came to it .
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21 ORRELL , the North West 's sole representative in Courage Division One , will this month exchange the lush turf of England for the sand pitches of the Middle East .
22 On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act .
23 He continued to give public support to the Church of England for the rest of his life .
24 Section 86 provides that section 82 also applies to information which has been supplied to the Bank of England for the purpose of its functions under the Act by a relevant supervisory authority in a foreign country .
25 Gascoigne was to have gone to Lazio at the end of July for the club to monitor his rehabilitation after the knee ligament operation that threatened his career .
26 The other side of the picture was the very severe hardship that would be faced by the families , their witnesses and supporters if they all had to travel out of Orkney for the case .
27 Fellowship involves membership of the Governing Body ( with the possibility of being invited to serve on college committees ) , a workroom in college or its annexe , meals without charge , academic allowances exceeding 1,800 per annum , and membership of BUPA for the fellow and dependents ( subject to tax ) .
28 The Rules of the Fire Offices ' Committee and the Fire Offices ' Committee of Ireland for the Construction of Buildings are those which have been adopted by the Insurance companies , members of the Committee , for the classification of buildings and are based on two grades of construction .
29 It was from the first of December for the address although they were actually
30 Speaking to the NATO Council the following day Havel recognized that " our country can not become a regular member of NATO for the time being " but called on NATO not to exclude permanently its democratic neighbours .
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