Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 2 | Ordinarily , there would be very few behaviour problems with the dogs of Barbados , even if we were viewing the scene with the rose-tinted spectacles of tourists arrived for two weeks of beaching , sightseeing and nightclubbing ! |
| 3 | For many years readers DENISE BAILEY of Sussex longed for a pond in the garden , but with small children around the idea was shelved — until now . |
| 4 | Expeditions were mounted for Sannikov 's Land , and two parties of explorers perished for their troubles . |
| 5 | Then the chapter of accidents began for Leeds when hooker Colin Maskell threw out a wild pass for full-back Alan Hunte to race 55 yards to score on the left . |
| 6 | The solid offer of a place in the Department of Lands came for Mona and a similar job in the Department of Finance for Sheila . |
| 7 | This afternoon the Government and the Department of Transport apologised for the delay . |
| 8 | The Prince of Wales asked for help |
| 9 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 10 | For one freshly boiled , medium large ( about 1 ½ lb. ) hen lobster or langouste ( if you are boiling the creature at home , you can always add the large goblet of Madeira called for in the original recipe ) , the ingredients for the sauce are 2 small shallots , a heaped teaspoon of tarragon leaves , 2 tablespoons of chopped parsley , salt , pepper , a scant teaspoon of strong yellow French mustard , 24 to 30 drops of soy sauce , approximately 6 tablespoons of mildly fruity Provence olive oil , the juice of half a rather small lemon , 1 teaspoon of anisette de Bordeaux . |
| 11 | When the morning stars sang together , and all the sons of God shouted for joy ? ’ — Job . ] |
| 12 | For the hearing a posse of lawyers appeared for both sides , but Thomas , at the time of his deepest depression over the outcome of the suit , comforted himself that he had secured the best lawyers that money could buy before his opponents had managed to secure them . |
| 13 | The protection of rights became for him , and for all who thought as he did , the enforcement of ‘ constitutional limitations . ’ |
| 14 | In Belgium 's 1991 election 23% of Antwerpers voted for the Vlaams Blok , an anti-immigrant party that wants an independent Flanders ( Antwerp is home to 25,000 Muslims from Turkey and North Africa , and 15,000 Jews ) . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Supply asked for any kind of bone except the backbone of a kipper . |
| 16 | The sensitivities of fitness to changes in survival and fertility at different ages are explained in Box 1 , and illustrated by Fig. 1 , which is based on data from lines of Drosophila selected for early or late reproduction . |
| 17 | On 7 August 1548 , Mary Queen of Scots sailed for France . |
| 18 | It is pictured at Samford Brett Bridge south of Williton bound for Bishops-Lydeard . |
| 19 | A combination of absentees and rejections left only 99 of the 162 entries catalogued on offer and all but a handful sold as the packed ringside of buyers competed for the animals remaining in the sale . |
| 20 | On Sept. 17 President Babangida of Nigeria called for the imposition of sanctions against Liberian parties which had failed to comply with the Yamoussoukro lV peace agreement [ see p. 38993 ] . |
| 21 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 22 | The Orthodox Patriarch of Serbia and the Roman Catholic Primate of Croatia appealed for peace , while the Serbian opposition leader Vuk Draskovic called for an anti-war demonstration to be held in Belgrade . |
| 23 | Winner Jean : The winds of fate blew for Jean Morris , winner of Middlesbrough Council 's Captain Cook Birthday Balloon Race . |
| 24 | The Council of Europe called for sanctions against Serbia on Nov. 5 , and on Nov. 25 suspended Yugoslavia 's special status at the European parliament . |
| 25 | The French boycott of the Council of Ministers lasted for seven months . |
| 26 | On one side of him was the complex inhabited thicket of the hedge in which flocks of bullfinches competed for fodder and invisibly singing warblers were stationed at thirty-yard intervals ; on the other was a great sloping reach of field , the earth a reddish copper colour and patterned like a Japanese garden with the swirls and furrows left by machinery . |
| 27 | President Alan Gacia of Peru called for a planned summit on February 15 with President Bush to discuss drugs to be ‘ deferred ’ because of the invasion . |
| 28 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 29 | To take just one more example , the central urban township of Sheffield accounted for only one-twentieth of the 22,370-acre parish which stretched from the industrial villages of Attercliffe and Darnall in the east to isolated farms in the west . |
| 30 | The 1987 Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches asked for opportunities for Church leaders to study so that they can cope with problems cropping up everywhere . |