Example sentences of "on [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Alf can now concentrate again on building for the future instead of defending the past . ’ |
| 2 | They both started by declaring a moratorium on building for the civil service , so time went by and little advance was made . |
| 3 | Gould accepted the commission for illustrating the volume on birds for Darwin 's Zoology but left before he saw it completed . |
| 4 | The current population is mostly made up of scientists and support staff working on contract for one or two years . |
| 5 | Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship . |
| 6 | The big step is then getting the rest of the Council to take it on board , that 's the big step , you know , leisure , the neighbourhood office 's , I mean the neighbourhood office 's are quite good , I mean they 've got a , they 've got a budget , a development budget , and like in Katherines and Sumners I know that a large proportion of the development budget there went on projects for young people , you know , so there are using there money . |
| 7 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 8 | Q. You work on projects for major companies . |
| 9 | You had them on radar for a while , ’ asked Duncan . |
| 10 | If using a microwave , break the chocolate up and heat on defrost for 3 min . |
| 11 | The electric furnaces now used to produce high quality steel , depend almost entirely on scrap for furnace feed . |
| 12 | The judge said that the officer was not on trial for being a ‘ faithless husband , womanising in his motor car or for breaching police regulations ’ . |
| 13 | Maybe if I could make myself invisible , then I could walk down a street without feeling on trial for the way I look . |
| 14 | Labour is outraged that only one third of defendants on trial for rape are convicted . |
| 15 | Racing : Musicale and Hatoof on trial for Guineas |
| 16 | One colourful character in my year said to her class of eleven-year-olds , ‘ I 'm on trial for my life , so mind you behave yourselves ! ’ |
| 17 | On trial for the murder of her father , Davina finds the onset of war disturbs ancient secrets . |
| 18 | Later it came out in the press , there were some shocking pictures , and one of the company 's officers , Lieutenant William Calley ( 25 ) , was put on trial for war crimes . |
| 19 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 20 | When John Thelwall , a well-known democrat and agitator , who had recently been on trial for treason , happened to call and then decided to stay for some time , the strange community fell under suspicion . |
| 21 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 22 | A PSYCHIATRIC patient who escaped while on trial for murder was recaptured yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ Orgies ’ wife on trial for murder |
| 24 | He was in charge of the casual wards as well as of all ‘ workhouse ’ inmates and ‘ test ’ workers — the latter being men sent on trial for twenty-four hours a week by the relieving officer . |
| 25 | IRA suspects on trial for bombing |
| 26 | Six hundred men , some from the most distinguished aristocratic families , went on trial for the quixotic rising of December 1825 . |
| 27 | Susan Wilberforce ( above ) , with her aunt Lady Illingworth at her coming out dance , 1953 ; right , on trial for forging Lady Illingworth 's will |
| 28 | Various generals and admirals who had been prominent in the war effort were put on trial for their lives in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ) , which met in Tokyo between 1946 and 1948 . |
| 29 | ‘ Khan , if looks could kill , Suragai would be stone dead and our daughter would be on trial for her life . |
| 30 | He was recalled to Bombay by the East India Company in February 1854 and put on trial for fraud and embezzlement ; although twice acquitted he was nevertheless cashiered . |