Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , meeting US Secretary of State Baker in Moscow on Aug. 3 , issued with him a joint statement condemning the invasion of Kuwait and appealing for a global ban on arms supplies to Iraq . |
| 2 | At this stage in his life , this was as important to Nicholson as searching for the character he was playing . |
| 3 | Brannen , now working in Stoke and competing for the city 's athletics club , agreed to represent his new home county in the pole vault and high jump before team manager Bill McGuirk contacted him with an invitation to be the NorthEast 's 110 metres hurdler . |
| 4 | Then Alec Smith , the Prime Minister 's son , spoke , pledging himself to fight for God 's will in Africa and calling for a giving up of ‘ pride and privilege , to save a continent ’ . |
| 5 | It is important not to read Quinn as calling for the destruction of formal corporate planning or rational analysis . |
| 6 | Moreover , he saw Preobrazhensky as arguing for the violation of the material essence of the law of labour expenditure and not merely for violating the social form of the law of value . |
| 7 | The Lebanese government received a US letter of assurances on Oct. 19 , reportedly referring to the implementation of UN Resolution 425 , adopted in March 1978 following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and calling for a complete Israeli withdrawal [ see p. 29649 ] . |
| 8 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 9 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 10 | Kevin Coley was rumoured to be fed up with the dreadful Napiers and looking for a new senior professional . |
| 11 | Werewolf proceeded to try and blow all four stereo speakers and by the time he had the volume where he wanted it , and was playing along on his air guitar , we were through Sidcup and heading for the motorway . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Kemf is an American now living in Switzerland and working for the Worldwide Fund for Nature . |
| 13 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |