Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun] for [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , legal strategies have been employed by the peace movement to challenge the authority of state agencies , whether by setting up Nuclear Free Zones , challenging the sale of National Trust land to the Ministry of Defence , or the siting of a shooting range in Berlin ( Guelen , 1985 ) 1 and suing the President of the United States of America for breaches of International Law.2 In other contexts , law has provided a forum in which the rights of individuals in the peace movement and the demands of the state have been adjudicated , for example in deciding on the validity of withholding tax contributions for military spending . |
| 2 | Tapie had resigned in May as Minister for Towns amid an alleged business scandal [ see p. 38928 ] . |
| 3 | I recently discovered that this consultation paper had been sent out to some environmental NGOs in England in March for comments by the end of April . |
| 4 | Mr Arafat today met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo for talks on the proposed PLO-Israeli peace agreement . |
| 5 | Mr Christopher , who flew from Damascus to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabia 's King Fahd , has been stressing his intention of being more active in the peace process — ‘ a full partner ’ — than his predecessor , James Baker . |
| 6 | Arafat met with King Hussein of Jordan for talks on June 11 and again on June 21 . |
| 7 | An IMF delegation visited Lagos in mid-July for discussions with the government about a new financing arrangement . |
| 8 | While Venturous bottled up the seaward end of the Swale , Vigilant waited in the Medway near Sheerness for signs of the quarry . |
| 9 | In a veiled warning to Turkey , President Boris Yeltsin of Russia dispatched his State Secretary Gennady Burbulis and Defence Minister Gen. Pavel Grachev to Armenia for talks on the future role of the 7th Army , now under exclusive Russian control but stationed on Armenian territory . |
| 10 | North West MBEs include , Arthur Addis for services to the community of Culcheth , Warrington ; Alan Deakin , of Warrington , for services to fire safety ; Muriel Downs , managing director of Daryl Industries for services to manufacturing industry and Harold Edwards of Warrington for services to the Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 11 | I therefore arranged a meeting with Colin Campbell of DOMIS for representatives of all departments using 12/24 St Giles Street to consider both issues . |
| 12 | January : Jan. 22 : European Parliament voted to suspend US$1,500 million of food and technical aid in response to Soviet crackdown in the Baltic states ; Jan. 22-23 : Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama in Moscow for talks with Bessmertnykh and Gorbachev . |
| 13 | Bessmertnykh met with Baker and Bush in Washington for talks on the Gulf crisis , arms control and the forthcoming summit ; agreed that summit scheduled for February would be postponed because of Gulf conflict . |
| 14 | Bickley Millstream on form for bags of dace , small chub and odd better fish behind the industrial estate . |
| 15 | A late and rather unreliable source also explained some of the northern discontent in 1469 as the result of the demands of the Hospital of St Leonard at York for payments of sheaves from the northern counties ( 13 , p.121 ; 40 , p.218 ) . |
| 16 | Furious at the angry words , Clare telephoned Thomas Cook in Nice for tickets to London . |
| 17 | In the second century BCE Judas Maccabaeus led sorties into Idumaea in revenge for attacks on Jews , and later in the same century John Hyrcanus conquered the territory , and forced the Idumaeans to accept circumcision and obedience to the Jewish Law . |
| 18 | President De Klerk will visit Maputo on Friday for talks with the Mozambican President , Mr Joaquim Chissano , the national news agency , AIM , said yesterday . |
| 19 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
| 20 | The Chinese Vice-Premier , Wu Xueqian , arrives in India on Thursday for talks with the Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi , and Indian ministers . |