Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I and my right hon. Friend are grateful for his support for the underlying principle of the Bill . |
| 2 | A writer on the Cornish miners in the early eighteenth century complained that because of their " numerous holidays , holiday eves , feasts , account days ( once a month ) , Yeuwhiddens or one way or another they invent to loiter away their time , they do not work one half of their month for the owners and employers " . |
| 3 | By May 1925 , the District owed Pateman £115 in salary arrears which amounted to almost one-half of his salary for the year and owed an even larger sum elsewhere . |
| 4 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 5 | Perhaps , though , it was Pepper 's display which exposed some of their deficiencies for the impetus was created and maintained almost exclusively by the forwards , who dominated the lineout and drove magnificently . |
| 6 | Despite considerable controversy over whether the Hill was truly a sacred site for the 600 Jawoyns and appeals by some of their number for the development to go ahead , Hawke forced his view upon the Cabinet that mining the area would amount to " desecration and sacrilege " of Aboriginal beliefs and should , therefore , be prohibited in perpetuity by incorporating the site into the adjacent national park . |
| 7 | There is a tradition of strong social consciousness in the Church of Ireland , evidenced by its building of hospitals , the support of some of its leadership for the locked-out Dublin workers in 1913 and their activities in other works of mercy without a proselytizing aim . |
| 8 | Indeed , because of deficiencies , the Air Force has had to change some of its plans for the bomber and may have to dish out an extra $1 billion to correct the problems . |
| 9 | Last week it launched version 4 of the XPG portability guide and laid out some of its plans for the future . |
| 10 | In this paper I have outlined the Z-Score approach to financial analysis and some of its applications for the credit manager . |
| 11 | On Sunday 6th we have a free day — a much needed respite to enable us to prepare some of our work for the next week — but in the evening we went to dinner with from the embassy , as well as with two senior visitors from London , one from the British Council ( , who is responsible for all Chinese visits ) and one from the Foreign Office . |
| 12 | Our efforts at self-help have been much encouraged by the generosity of Mr Peter Leaver , Q.C. , Mr Samuel Stamler , Q.C. , and other members of Mr Stamler 's Chambers , who have undertaken to meet the cost ofthe Law Reports and some of our journals for the next five years . |
| 13 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
| 14 | I am worried by the enthusiasm of some of my constituents for the Bengal tiger and rare species in various parts of the world , while tending to disregard animals in our local habitats . |
| 15 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 16 | We shall leave no stone unturned in our search for the culprit . |
| 17 | Despite the current employment situation in the UK , where some 280 BA-sponsored graduates from Oxford and Prestwick have yet to be employed as aircrew by the airline , Meehan is unequivocal in his optimism for the future . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the experience was tremendous and Geoff Wappett , the Bradford coach , was high in his praise for the organisation of the tournament and the benefit that his young wide received from it . |
| 19 | She drew in a short quick breath , hating what she was going to do yet knowing that it was unavoidable in her quest for the truth . |
| 20 | Sounds like 88Open might have IBM and Apple high on its list for the 880pen testing technology its been touting of late ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 21 | The significance of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ has to be seen , finally , on a third level which preceding chapters have not sought to explore systematically : that of its function for the élites — both the non-Nazi ‘ national-conservative ’ élites and the power-groups within the Movement itself . |
| 22 | There can be no doubt that Creole , in particular Jamaican Creole , derives much of its attraction for the youth from its association with certain forms of culture . |
| 23 | The trouble with some of those who make much of their support for the health service is that they also oppose any measures taken to make it more effective . |
| 24 | The Commission believes that the life and witness of the Church depend first and last upon the quality and vitality of its worship , and is convinced of its importance for the future . |
| 25 | But Eliot emphasized that Johnson , unaware that such distinctions grew out of a difference in ritual , had been ignorant of their importance for the Greeks . |
| 26 | Two leading drug traffickers , Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo , were on Dec. 13 , 1989 , sentenced to 116 and 144 years ' imprisonment respectively and deprived of their assets for the murder in 1985 of Enrique Camarena Salazar , a United States Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) official , and his Mexican pilot [ see pp. 33967 ; 36371 ] . |
| 27 | If the owner 's daughter invites the accused into her bedroom for the purpose of sexual intercourse , he is not trespassing . |
| 28 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 29 | This is particularly noticeable in his variations for the Six fairies in The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 30 | For the citizens of Attica ( at least in classical tunes : it is remarkable , and sad in its implications for the vitality of deme life , that deme decrees are rare after the fourth century ) deme routine was more immediate , though no doubt objectively less important , than what happened on the Pnyx . |