Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a cat like that could stay hidden for months . |
| 2 | MEL STERLAND bounced into Elland Road yesterday with the best news Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson has heard for months . |
| 3 | Nature seems quite profligate in the number of ways it has arranged for embryos to construct organisms . |
| 4 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 5 | True , it may well be that much good has come for women from Christian history and from Christ 's moral teaching . |
| 6 | Alunan added that " the time has come for actions to match rhetoric " . |
| 7 | OUR nation has pursued for decades the policy that has substituted machines and technology for human lives . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the disability rights movement has looked for lessons from abroad when drawing up a manifesto for reform . |
| 9 | As women become increasingly involved in sports and aerobics activities , so the demand has grown for bras which offer moisture absorbing properties . |
| 10 | In Robert Dole , the top Republican in the senate , he faces the most effective leader of the opposition that Washington has seen for decades . |
| 11 | Sammy McIlroy , once an Old Trafford prodigy himself , reckons Giggs is the most exciting player he has seen for years . |
| 12 | A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . |
| 13 | The company has applied for licences in a total of eight blocks in the latest round of offshore licensing organised by the Government . |
| 14 | It is all very well to say , as I am sure the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) will say — because it is what British Rail has said for months — that the great majority of passengers coming into King 's Cross on the channel tunnel trains will go to further destinations by public transport , but there will also be many hundreds of thousands of passengers in a year who will want to be met by friends in cars , who will want to get on to coaches if they are in large parties or who will want to take taxis . |
| 15 | of reduction of er emissions then in fact you have got to reduce the consumption of erm hydrocarbons er as interesting as the Liberal party has said for years but now er pretends it had nothing to do with erm , er V A T on fuel . |
| 16 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 17 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 18 | Yet another industry consortium has been born in the shape of SGML Open , which brings together electronic distribution , authoring and database software companies to educate the commercial market about the advantages of the language and provide information to help organisations to implement the standard ; and to provide a forum where vendors can resolve issues in applying the standard to real-world application by providing guidelines : the announcement of the formal founding , organisational structure and proposed programme will be made at the Seybold Seminars in Boston in April ; the backers believe that the language has the potential to do for document-based information what SQL has done for databases . |
| 19 | Mrs Maureen Howie , head teacher of La Retraite School , in Lambeth , south London , said : ‘ The real disappointment for us would be that such a move would be made without looking very carefully at what grant maintained schools have achieved , and at what the pilot movement has done for children . ’ |
| 20 | I recognise the powerful representations that my hon. Friend has made for industries in his constituency , and particularly the bicycle industry . |
| 21 | THE mother of a North Wales soldier serving in Bosnia has appealed for pen-pals for him and his colleagues . |
| 22 | He is also compiling a list a founder members and has appealed for photographs and Press cuttings to help his research . |
| 23 | He is also compiling a list a founder members and has appealed for photographs and Press cuttings to help his research . |
| 24 | Talks The Scottish TUC , after talks with Dundee police , has appealed for troublemakers to stay away , and for those attending to heed union guidelines and stay within the law . |
| 25 | His party has appealed for volunteers to help Iraq in non-combat roles ; 20 gung-ho young men have stepped forward . |
| 26 | Darlington Dial a Ride has appealed for volunteers to help the elderly with door to door transport . |
| 27 | And so you carry on , with what is probably the first conversation that person has had for weeks . |
| 28 | A new playroom has opened for children to use while they wait to have artificial limbs fitted . |
| 29 | Australian War Memorial has called for tenders to purchase its B-25J Mitchell bomber , VH-XXV . |
| 30 | In terms of a debate , he will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has called for debates in the Scottish Grand Committee and I hope that everyone will contribute to them . |