Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WIGAN boss John Monie yesterday blasted rugby league title rivals St Helens for refusing to switch Sunday 's clash from Knowsley Road to Central Park , which has undersoil heating . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke last night received an apology from ITN for claiming that he had been late for yesterday 's wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph . |
| 3 | This newspaper also criticized Dzerzhinsky for neglecting water transport and port facilities , though no doubt his great energies were stretched in Siberia where he stayed until March . |
| 4 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |
| 5 | So , you know , tears went out to her , but I 'd also like to thank everybody at Audi who helped me , and also his Grace , the Duke of Marlborough for letting the event take place . |
| 6 | It was criticized in Czechoslovakia for lacking a clause annulling the 1938 Munich Agreement which had led to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia , and in Germany for lacking provisions on the property rights of the 2,000,000 Sudeten Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia after the end of the Second World War . |
| 7 | On 4 August , Great Britain , with the overwhelming support of her people , declared war on Germany for violating Belgian sovereignty . |
| 8 | In a radio interview on Sept. 18 Lamont appeared to blame Germany for producing many of the tensions within the ERM . |
| 9 | Indeed , once I was congratulated by a local town councillor in Holyhead for having such sensible ideas , when all I had done was repeat , at irregular intervals , fragments of what had emerged from the councillor 's own monologue . |
| 10 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 11 | I 'd like to thank Betty and Jim for organizing this wonderful party to give both of our families the ideal opportunity to get to know each other . |
| 12 | Jean Parmiter expressed her grateful thanks to Beryl for arranging the Q.T. days for the coming year at Quintin School . |
| 13 | As the Prime Minister reproached Mr Nigel Lawson for resigning the Chancellorship ‘ with such suddenness and haste ’ — and over personality not policy — her isolation was highlighted by the ex-minister whose enforced resignation in the Westland affair of 1986 is being likened by disaffected MPs to the recent sacrifice of Mr Lawson . |
| 14 | Feminists will want to thank Lonsdale for restoring Mrs Browning 's poetic ancestors , but not feminists alone . |
| 15 | IT was all smiles as director of human resources George Stonier said thank you to his secretary Val Inskip for clocking up 25 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group . |
| 16 | As an author , he exploded at Mr Pascall for suggesting that the lists would make sure that children read ‘ suitable ’ books : ‘ What is suitable ? |
| 17 | An Oxford student has been remanded in custody for a week at a London Magistrates Court ; twenty-one year old Ajaiki Akabasharune is jointly charged with a student from Wolverhampton for conspiring with persons unknown to defraud the central clearing banks this August . |
| 18 | His results have been criticised by Newton for underestimating the effects of city size on the proportion of Labour voters . |
| 19 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 20 | The Polytechnic must find it all the more galling that a situation has developed whereby an institute of higher education has become a sub-centre of the Faculty of Education at Cardiff for training further education teachers , a role that is denied to the Polytechnic because it has lost its involvement in the professional training of teachers . |
| 21 | The water wheel turns the grinding stones of Melin Brompren Flour Mill to produce stone-ground wheat flour which is used at Derwen Bakehouse for baking traditional bread and bara brith ( a Welsh delicacy ) |
| 22 | In closing we would like to congratulate the manager and chairman Jim Boyce for bringing quality players such as Greenhalgh , Manley , Kerr , Gill , McAllister and Flynn to the club . |
| 23 | The winners include : i ) the Martineau company of Haute-Garonne , which has developed an electrochemical technique for removing metals from industrial effluent ; ii ) Matussiere and Forest Paper , for producing web offset paper entirely from non-chlorine bleached recycled fibres ; and iii ) the Banque populaire du Haut-Rhin for devising a discount loan scheme for anti-pollution equipment . |
| 24 | Thank you once again Sheila for making this very kind gesture in memory of your late husband , Mack . |
| 25 | So , thank you to Sheila for asking me , and letting us come to your meeting this afternoon . |
| 26 | The next day several delegates — wanting to know more about how to exploit domestic plastic waste — called John Simmons of recoup , the joint venture partly funded by ICI for recycling used plastic containers . |
| 27 | He is incredulous when she says that some people might think better of Jason for confessing his fear . |
| 28 | George then shot Lennie because he was angry at Lennie for getting in the way of his dreams coming true . |
| 29 | ‘ I am most grateful to Hope Ward for sparing you , Nurse Dungarvan . |
| 30 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |