Example sentences of "for [art] [noun prp] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |
| 2 | Last night , a spokesman for the IDA said that the talks with Digital 's president and chief executive , Robert Palmer , had been constructive . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the PFLP confirmed that one Palestinian was killed and five wounded when 16 rockets were fired at the base . |
| 4 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 5 | A spokesperson for the DoE said that because of the large number of people who use the park , they had no plans at present to lock it . |
| 6 | BT 's registration statement for the US showed that ‘ net income ’ and ‘ shareholders ’ equity' under UK generally accepted accounting principles ( Gaap ) were each double the US Gaap figures and retained earnings were three times the US Gaap equivalent . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the CAA explained that James Luna , who expressed hopes in his address to the conference that the current sensitivity to American Indian issues was more than 1990s chic , had been selected ‘ to tie in with the quincentennial ’ . |
| 8 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Clydesdale confirmed that the bank had made an error somewhere and had not processed the tape . |