Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such person was John Devoy , who was associated with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and who was also in close touch with the Germans , so he arranged for supplies of arms to be shipped to Ireland . |
| 2 | With a Psychology degree from Universal College London and an MBA from Harvard Business School , he worked for Bank of America in San Francisco , and the management consultant corporation SIAR Inc in Boston , before joining P&O Properties International in London in 1990 . |
| 3 | In 1987 the Getty purchased the celebrated ‘ Visions of Tondal ’ illuminated for Margaret of York in 1474 , presumably by Simon Marmion . |
| 4 | These ( it was thought ) watched for signs of revolt among satraps . |
| 5 | The DHSS/SSRC initiative , which at the outset looked for explanations of deprivation within families , ended by acknowledging the importance of structural factors . |
| 6 | I waited for exclamations of horror from above , for someone to call Harry 's name in alarm , for some natural innocent reaction to the floor 's collapse . |
| 7 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 8 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |