Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun prp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had combed the shops of Windsor looking for work , and at last had found some . |
| 2 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 3 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 4 | 350,000 copies of Corel Draw for the PC have been sold worldwide to date and an Apple Mac version is scheduled for release later this year . |
| 5 | When the morning stars sang together , and all the sons of God shouted for joy ? ’ — Job . ] |
| 6 | Ranulf , nudging Maltote , leered at the pretty ladies in their fillets and low-waisted dresses ; sometimes his words were drowned by the clamour of the crowd and the mid-day peal of the bells of London tolling for prayers from their great stone-washed , stately towers . |
| 7 | The sensitivities of fitness to changes in survival and fertility at different ages are explained in Box 1 , and illustrated by Fig. 1 , which is based on data from lines of Drosophila selected for early or late reproduction . |
| 8 | Surely the ultimate prize of motivating and supporting a wide cross-section of the communities of Wales to care for their local environment in a practical way is sufficient incentive for us to get our collective acts together ? |
| 9 | The accounting policies note states that certain US subsidiaries of Tomkins provide for post-retirement benefits other than pensions . |
| 10 | Inside , the enormous brick-walled chambers and massive stone fireplaces are thoroughly awe-inspiring , as is the view from the battlements on top of the castle , where the flatlands of Lincolnshire stretch for miles in every direction . |
| 11 | The development costs of Ariane accounted for 30 per cent of French space spending between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 12 | Despite repeated attacks on Quentovic in the 830s and 840s , for instance , the output of the Quentovic mint , meagre in those decades ( but also in the 820s ) , became large in the latter half of Charles 's reign ; in 858 , the monks of St-Wandrille fled for safety to Quentovic . |
| 13 | The matrix unc is called the adjugate of A. If A is singular , so that unc vanishes , then unc In this case , if A is simply degenerate , unc is of rank 1 ; but if A is multiply degenerate , so that all the cofactors of Aij vanish for all i , j , then unc is null . |
| 14 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 15 | The ethnic Albanians of Kosovo asked for EC recognition of an independent Kosovo on Dec. 23 . |
| 16 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 17 | ‘ Fluon ’ G201 is a ten-year old grae of PTFE used for moulding and machining into engineering components . |
| 18 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 19 | sources for volunteers included : members of CA board for Ireland and for Wales , and scholarship students as speakers using members of the family to ‘ office sit ’ and to do the graphics |
| 20 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 21 | In October 1685 Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes , under which the protestants of France had for ninety years enjoyed freedom of worship and full civil rights . |
| 22 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 23 | On May 6 thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Lomé calling for the resignation of President Gnassingbe Eyadema and Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , who , they claimed , were " accomplices " in the attack . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , those Scales that the faithful foolish Gnomes of Gallan wrought for Erin and which disappeared towards the end of his reign . ’ |
| 25 | The office of Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland existed for only twenty years , terminating in 1948 . |
| 26 | It is a vision that the citizens of Manchester have for the city 's future and their region . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 28 | Through creative expression they aim to educate , inspire and entertain which is exactly why Daughters of Oshun chose For Coloured Girls … as it shows positively how far Black women have come . |
| 29 | For a while the notion gripped him , and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys . |
| 30 | And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord . |