Example sentences of "from [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 17 September Bletchley intercepted an order from Goering for the dismantling of loading equipment in Dutch aerodromes . |
| 2 | The growth has come from privatisation of services provided in the public sectors , particularly healthcare and education and from catering for the public . |
| 3 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 4 | The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference . |
| 5 | It is true that relief from the parish might be obtained in case of distress , but there would always be those whose pride would forbear them from applying for the pittance — at least they would avoid the humiliating and rigorous means test . |
| 6 | Slater , of Redcar Road , Middlesbrough , admitted reckless driving , assault and criminal damage in April and was jailed for four months and banned from driving for the same period . |
| 7 | His early education was mainly private ; he went to King 's College , Cambridge , in 1888 to read history , but , apart from writing for the Gadfly and Granta , his academic career was undistinguished . |
| 8 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 9 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 10 | said : ‘ It appears to me that , when the plaintiffs demanded payment of their debt , and in consequence of that application the defendant agreed to give certain security , although there was no promise on the part of the plaintiffs to abstain for any certain time from suing for the debt , the effect was , that the plaintiffs did in effect give , and the defendant received , the benefit of some degree of forbearance ; not indeed , for any definite time but , at all events , some extent of forbearance . ’ |
| 11 | Experts will address the conference on every aspect of the killer disease , from testing for the HIV infection to safety in the workplace . |
| 12 | Each of these companies was invited to accept a field officer , a college lecturer with a half-day per week freed up from teaching for the purpose . |
| 13 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |
| 14 | Schools are prevented by law from charging for the curriculum , including charging pupils and their parents directly for school trips and visits , yet on the other hand schools are encouraged to generate as much revenue as they possibly can . |
| 15 | A majority of those attending the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party had favoured the abolition of the death penalty ; and the strength of their feeling on this issue was such that it was most unlikely that they could be persuaded to refrain from voting for the amendment . |
| 16 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 17 | A week away from leaving for the European leg of the current Michael Jackson tour , she was enjoying a two day break in what sounded like a hectic rehearsal schedule . |
| 18 | As editor of The Colonial Magazine , Kingston 's Magazine and The Union Jack ( the last-named started in 1880 , the year of his death , and taken over by Henty ) , Kingston could claim all the space he needed to express his views on the importance of colonisation and use the experience he gained from working for the Colonial Land and Emigration Board . |
| 19 | COUNCILLORS have decided a city painting firm should be banned from working for the district for two years because their work has not come up to scratch . |
| 20 | There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester . |