Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also frequent movement as groups of children rearrange themselves for some fresh topic or activity . |
| 2 | I meant to pop the enclosed in a drawer of the chest of drawers to thank you for its removal — better late than never , and the card early to save a stamp . |
| 3 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 4 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 5 | On Tuesday deliveries of the planings began , and for the rest of the week two of us , both volunteers , drove dumper trucks to deposit the material in small piles , which the bulldozer later smoothed out ( driving dumper trucks proved a popular occupation — there was no shortage of helpers to relieve us for breaks . |
| 6 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 7 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 8 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |