Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Control Data Systems has applied for listing of its shares on the NASDAQ National Market System , and Silicon Graphics has entered new joint marketing and technology-sharing agreements . |
| 32 | The G M B has argued for change in how the T U C operates . |
| 33 | Pursuing its goal of creating very high-speed clustered configurations of the RS/6000 Unix workstations and servers , IBM Corp has turned for help — on the fast optical links it will need — to Ancor Communications Inc in Minnetonka , Minnesota . |
| 34 | What he has done for leukaemia research is brilliant — and what he has done for me is give me my confidence back . |
| 35 | I just had to write to you , to tell the Tennis World readers what a certain , beautiful lady has done for tennis and for her supporters . |
| 36 | Well add to this a built-in tuner , internal monitor speaker for practising and a versatile range of footswitch control and you 'll see that the RY10 is set to do for guitarists what our ground-breaking QY10 has done for Keyboard players and for just £249 ! |
| 37 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 38 | So whatever the ankle has done for sex , its contribution to other games of chance has been incalculable . |
| 39 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 40 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 41 | In November 1989 LIFFE commenced live operations with its Automated Pit Trading ( APT ) system which simulates the principles of open outcry trading on a screen after the Exchange floor has closed for trading until approximately 6 pm . |
| 42 | In this case , in addition to a writ issued by the Derbyshire County Council , the former leader of the council , Mr. Bookbinder , has sued for libel and his action , which is based almost word for word upon the same allegations as those in the council 's statement of claim , continues . |
| 43 | ‘ Here at home , the Queen has appealed for calm . |
| 44 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 45 | The widow of a security guard who was killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 46 | THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has appealed for restraint in the wake of the Castlerock murders . |
| 47 | The site 's landowner has appealed for planning permission to extract the peat . |
| 48 | Ms Radice will implement her policy by vetoing aberrant grants among the 1,122 ( totalling $66.1 million ) that the National Council on the Arts has approved for funding on the recommendations of peer panels . |
| 49 | The analysis associated with the Name of the Father , castration and the Oedipal seems to me to have less purchase in thinking television than it has had for cinema . |
| 50 | The first pollution futures market , trading in " permits to pollute " , has opened for business in Chicago , where the first trade in permits took place last year [ see EDs 59/60 ; 63 ] . |
| 51 | The UK 's biggest recycling plant has opened for business . |
| 52 | Because the RAWP formula is only used to determine shares of the nationally allocated budget for the NHS , it has not suffered from the same instability of allocations for individual Regional Health Authorities that has occurred for Local Authorities . |
| 53 | The day was a resounding success and achieved some local press coverage if not as much as hoped for and of course there is the sponsorship money which the groups has raised for Amnesty . |
| 54 | In his time at WWF , the amount the organisation has raised for conservation has grown from under £1 million to £15 million annually . |
| 55 | A patio which spends most of the day in the shadow has called for ingenuity and imagination , as Gill Page discovered in michael Blood 's bijou garden … |
| 56 | President Bush has called for calm , the California State Governor has declared a state of emergency . |
| 57 | The Law and Order Minister has called for peace talks . |
| 58 | AMERICAN Congressman Robert Menendez has called for change in the way suspects are treated in Northern Ireland . |
| 59 | The Arab ‘ troika ’ has called for restraint by all parties . |
| 60 | APSYCHOLOGIST whose research suggests that almost a fifth of pupils are being bullied has called for government action to tackle the problem . |