Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 2 | The widening of the EEC argued for greater awareness of the European market and the need for both young people and businesses to face the real demands for new skills , greater knowledge of other languages and more mobility in moving throughout other countries . |
| 3 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 4 | The Stewarts reigned for 333 years , through 7 Scottish kings , a queen ( Mary Queen of Scots ) , and 7 monarchs of Great Britain , making theirs the longest monarchical dynasty ever to rule in these islands . |
| 5 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 6 | If it is allowed to get too hot it also produces dioxin , an unacceptable contaminant in the TCP used for manufacture of hexachlorophene . |
| 7 | ‘ It was one of the reasons the middle class in Scotland felt the Union worked for them , ’ says Lindsay Paterson , of Edinburgh University 's Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland . |
| 8 | So the CLPD pressed for three major reforms . |
| 9 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 10 | The EPLF apologized for attacking the ships , attributing this " mistake " to a " confused military situation " . |
| 11 | The Yasa allowed for only a limited selection of penalties under the law . |
| 12 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 13 | Blaney 's success in the States lasted for some years and then , in 1910 , the affluent company decided to tour Great Britain . |
| 14 | OECD member countries of the DAC accounted for 91 per cent of all ODA . |
| 15 | The Volvo skidded for about fifty yards , its speed gradually slowing . |
| 16 | On Dec. 10 the FAO appealed for 1,300,000 tonnes of food aid for the Sudan in 1991 . |
| 17 | The definition the CSD used for its survey was : ‘ organisations which have been set up or adopted by Departments and provided with funds to perform some function which the Government wish to have performed but which it did not wish to be the direct responsibility of a Minister or Department ’ . |
| 18 | The next day the Lapp arrived for his drink , but we had seen no evidence of a trail . |
| 19 | The Ukraine called for the shutting down of all the reactors at the Chernobyl site in 1990 and urged that greater consideration be given to a new energy programme which eliminated nuclear power . |
| 20 | Following the ceremony , there was a further procession to the Divintity School before the Sultan left for a visit of the Univeristy 's Centre for Islamic Studies . |
| 21 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 22 | On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co . |
| 23 | Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement : |
| 24 | At the end of the month , Raybestos and the IDA applied for a temporary injunction to prevent Michael Lenihan of Ringaskiddy , and anyone acting on his behalf , from picketing the dump site . |
| 25 | By the mid-1980s , relatively few of the SOEs targeted for sale had actually been privatised . |
| 26 | The CDP called for a moratorium on institutional reviews . |
| 27 | There are , of course , moments like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ that make you wish the NHS paid for and hygienically destroyed ‘ Been there — done that — got it out of my system in the studio ’ bouts of maudlin croaking . |
| 28 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 29 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 30 | The CEGB paid for advertisements in its magazine and funded WWF publications . |