Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |
| 2 | An Oxford student has been remanded in custody for a week at a London Magistrates Court ; twenty-one year old Ajaiki Akabasharune is jointly charged with a student from Wolverhampton for conspiring with persons unknown to defraud the central clearing banks this August . |
| 3 | George then shot Lennie because he was angry at Lennie for getting in the way of his dreams coming true . |
| 4 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 5 | But the NYOS earned a pat on the back from Mr Baker for having by far the largest number of donors — 68 in total — giving sums under £5,000 . |
| 6 | Contrary to Stu 's reports , I was n't deported from the Netherlands for looking like E. Cantona ! |
| 7 | Just as his late father was reviled in Forres for siding with the Boers fourteen years before , so John was mocked and jeered for speaking up for peace . |
| 8 | This was particularly embarrassing for Bolger as he had been in the forefront of those who had castigated former Labour Prime Minister David Lange for bowing to French economic pressure by releasing Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur , the two saboteurs who were tried and sentenced for the crime . |
| 9 | The machine , an original Boston Tacker from the early nineteen hundreds was prepared by Taffy for showing at the exhibition this month at Wellingborough branch . |
| 10 | Grateful thanks go to David Pountain of the BMS for helping with these articles . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , at the risk of confirming suspicions that he was a political reactionary , he scrupulously avoided discussion of internal French politics ( except to criticize Vichy for collaborating with the Germans ) . |
| 12 | All three were barred in February for tampering with urine samples during out-of-competition tests . |
| 13 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 14 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
| 15 | From Manchester Airport to Aberdeen for meeting with the Hamilton Oil Company . |
| 16 | Nos. 18–26 passed into the hands of London Transport in 1933 and their records show that they were sold to Cohens for scrapping on 17 May 1934 , Nos. 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 and 26 in Penge depôt and 20 , 24 and 25 at Fulwell , where No. 19 followed on 2 October . |
| 17 | In Cinnamond v. British Airports-Authority a number of minicab drivers had been repeatedly prosecuted by the B.A.A. for touting for passengers at the airport . |
| 18 | Crops have been successfully grown in Scotland for harvesting in August and September to extend the canning season . |
| 19 | On a TV Wogan show , Ken would pay tribute to Marty Feldman for writing Round The Horne . |
| 20 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 21 | Mothopeng argued that only armed force could end minority rule in South Africa and condemned the ANC for entering into exploratory talks with a regime which the PAC refused to recognize . |
| 22 | Last week , they roasted Lavelle for eating at exclusive restaurants at the expense of company officials who were , at the time , under investigation by her department for dumping toxic waste in harbours and unprotected dumps . |
| 23 | For each area of study which a centre is currently offering the centre is required to submit to HCIMA for forwarding to the centre 's moderator three copies of the following : |
| 24 | Such work as ‘ Reading for Learning in Science ’ ( Davies and Greene ) and Michael Hoey 's work based on Eugene Winter 's pioneering analysis of academic discourse are possible models for a serious contribution at the second level . |
| 25 | I 'll say thanks very much to Councillor Stuart Argyle for coming in our thanks as well to David Poole for joining us on the phone thanks David . |
| 26 | ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers . |
| 27 | A French judge on Jan. 12 , 1990 , ordered the arrest of ETA leaders Francisco Múgika Garmendía , José Javier Zabaleta Elósegui , José Arcos and José Arregui Erostarbe for questioning about an arsenal discovered in Anglet in December 1989 . |
| 28 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |
| 29 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 30 | Maria won an IBM computer and yesterday met Blue Peter presenter Diane Louise Jordan for filming of a future episode . |