Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Acres appealed for any witnesses to the Sunday night attack to ring police on a special hotline on 051 777 3574 . |
| 2 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 3 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |
| 4 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 5 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 6 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 7 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 8 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 9 | Agreements reached for these groups are incorporated into the convenio . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 12 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 13 | Between 1981 and 1991 , the number of first marriages fell for both sexes by over a quarter . |
| 14 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 15 | But working naturalists were interested in the whole range of exotic species , not just big game , while the radicals pushed for more research and public access to the zoo . |
| 16 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 17 | According to Sotheby 's , at least six bidders vied for this work to the $8 million level . |
| 18 | As a result , when the two women went for that walk — which was followed by several others — the topic Sarah was so anxious to discuss just never came up . |
| 19 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 20 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 21 | Its clerks had for many years to work in ‘ dark , stuffy offices , with smoke-grimed ceilings and an atmosphere compounded of overnight gas-burning and the indefinable mouldiness of adjacent ’ bookrooms ’ ‘ . |
| 22 | Shales paused for several seconds , his sparrow eyes going from one member to another . |
| 23 | Only querulous pupils and awkward governors at interviews asked for some justification for studying it . |
| 24 | Trade unions had for some time been supporting candidates for the House of Commons and spending union funds for this purpose . |