Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 6 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 7 | Equally , the theologians ' new concentration on the literal meaning of the Bible produced a new view of the judge 's obligations which Charles the Good of Flanders exploited for himself : |
| 8 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 9 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | If the cortes of Navarre and Castile prolonged a phantom existence that of Aragon vanished for ever . |
| 12 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 13 | The development costs of Ariane accounted for 30 per cent of French space spending between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 14 | For Henri , the desire for French control of Scotland had for the moment given way to Valois need to counter an extension of Hapsburg power ; and Mary was as useful for the one as for the other . |
| 15 | The office of Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland existed for only twenty years , terminating in 1948 . |
| 16 | The south east of England accounted for 58 per cent of all voluntary liquidations with 8,115 up from 7,715 in 1991 . |
| 17 | The Governor of the Bank of England called for a slow-down on 22 October 1991 . |
| 18 | More than six years ago Bank of Ireland advertised for school leavers with a high level of secondary education who were intelligent , energetic , ambitious and possessing of a high level of social skills . |
| 19 | Planned for this year are centres in Bratislava , Bucharest , Moscow , Riga , Sofia , Talinn , Vilnius and Zagreb , with one in the Albanian capital of Tirana scheduled for 1994 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Du Pont Pixel , formerly benchMark Technologies , started work early on this project — before a reference implementation suitable for other CPU architectures was available from SGI , so it did a bottom-up re-working of GL optimised for the Sparc RISC processor . |
| 22 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 23 | and the various steps necessary for the completion of the Union have already been taken , according to the laws of this Church , and the 31st day of October fixed for the Consummation of the Union . |
| 24 | After marriage it was the turn of ‘ culture ’ ( the Bishop of Strasbourg called for the rehabilitation of Galileo ) and of economics . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The emphasis in most of this Report is upon the importance of the whole people of God gathered for worship . |
| 27 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |
| 28 | When the morning stars sang together , and all the sons of God shouted for joy ? ’ — Job . ] |
| 29 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 30 | The lord of Parfois pondered for a moment . |