Example sentences of "of the [noun prp] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 In his thirty-first year in show business , Cliff Richard was the top of the UK pops for Christmas 1988 .
2 Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission .
3 Guidelines for the future , including a meeting on national minorities scheduled for July 1-19 , 1991 ; negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures ( CSBM ) in Europe [ see p. 36539 ] to be concluded no later than a follow-up summit meeting of the CSCE scheduled for 1992 ; and the earliest possible conclusion of a comprehensive ban on chemical weapons .
4 By the mid-1980s , relatively few of the SOEs targeted for sale had actually been privatised .
5 The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets .
6 The widening of the EEC argued for greater awareness of the European market and the need for both young people and businesses to face the real demands for new skills , greater knowledge of other languages and more mobility in moving throughout other countries .
7 A ‘ no ’ vote is likely to delay the start of the EEA planned for January 1 to coincide with the launch of the EC 's single market .
8 ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription .
9 In the eastern Ukraine , many rejected the pretensions of the Rada to speak for the province and sought to promote a workers ’ revolutionary movement as an alternative focus .
10 At their beginning the members of the LCS debated for five nights in succession : " Have we , who are Tradesmen , Shopkeepers and Mechanics , any right to obtain a Parliamentary Reform ? "
11 The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members .
12 Not every school will be able to travel down to Portsmouth to see the wreck of the Mary Rose for themselves , but they could watch a video about the discovery and raising of the wreck , and carry out a computer simulation to search for the wreck .
13 OECD member countries of the DAC accounted for 91 per cent of all ODA .
14 Er my next point is that it has t this panel has to consider the implications of the Selby go for growth approach which I would call it , and I do n't think Selby differ from that , I think Selby are embarked on a a a a policy of growth , that the implications of that policy have to be con taken into consideration in relation to housing in particular , erm and it is apparent that if the allocation is doubled then there is unquestionably going to be a housing implication arising from that , and whether that would fit in with policies H one and H two .
15 Clinton and Neville thus had links both with the court and with Lancaster , and these links perhaps helped to ensure the tacit support of the Lancaster following for Edward 's coup .
16 The Battle of the Atlantic lasted for most of the Second World War .
17 Provisions against Wimpey 's extensive property portfolio and housing land on both sides of the Atlantic accounted for £37 million each out of a total exceptional charge of £114 million .
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