Example sentences of "for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 2 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 3 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
| 4 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 5 | One economist said : ‘ The Treasury forecast at the time of the Budget growth this year of 1 p.c. and a PSBR for 1992–93 of £26 billion excluding tax cuts . |
| 6 | The bank still receives only 1% of its total telephone billing , or for 500 of its 6,000 lines , via the system , Gilmont says . |
| 7 | TOMORROW is D for Digital Day for 365 of BT 's customers served by the Forden telephone exchange , midway between Welshpool and Newtown . |
| 8 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 9 | Each colour is defined by 3 bytes , one for each of the primary additive colours , red , green and blue . |
| 10 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 11 | Then , late in the evening , my new friend turned up with a little white pill for each of us . |
| 12 | Frequently in this period the representation of the man — man — woman triangle suggests that the desire which bonds men over women is as erotically invested for the men in relation to each other as for each of them in relation to the women . |
| 13 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 14 | In 1974 Labour introduced new policies for each of these , as well as for the EEC , housing finance , and trade union law . |
| 15 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 16 | For each of the following questions choose the most appropriate answer . |
| 17 | In civilian parlance Major Mike Herriott , Who runs No 4 Region , could be described as the ‘ District Catering Operations Manager ’ , and as such he arranges for each of the twenty Master Chefs to receive regular visits from one of the team of three Area Catering Officers ( ACOs ) or six Area Catering Warrant Officers ( ACWOs ) . |
| 18 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 19 | Hounslow , the holders , Havant and East Grinstead all gained clear-cut victories to qualify for away ties against other First Division sides in the eighth finals , and an England player scored for each of them . |
| 20 | We 've classified 12 types of present-giver — one for each of the 12 days of Christmas , plus health hazard rankings , with top scores of 10 . |
| 21 | For each of us , as the apocalypse looms , there 's a power struggle within the self , between decency and dissipation . |
| 22 | Take food hygiene : it is cheaper for a large council to set up a laboratory to service several districts than for each of the districts to have its own . |
| 23 | This — Francis 's first of more than thirty novels all loosely based on the racing world — has been picked almost at random , for each of them is masterful . |
| 24 | We are all special to him , and he longs for each of us to enter into the space and privileges of his home . |
| 25 | Yet that is where we begin with God : his providential care for each of us and his provision for each of our lives . |
| 26 | Yet that is where we begin with God : his providential care for each of us and his provision for each of our lives . |
| 27 | When they reach their next stopping place , they find not one but twelve springs of fresh water , one for each of their tribes . |
| 28 | The system was based on an ordinary mouldboard plough with a vertical rotor added for each of the mouldboards , and with a series of curved cutting tines on each of the rotors . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've seen that dress before , ’ whispers a disappointed woman in front , but you could scarcely expect the Queen to wear a new suit for each of the fourteen investitures each year as well as all her other official functions . |
| 30 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |