Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claude Simon 's fiction provides for the possibility of retrieval , if we accept the mimetic claim that the form of the novel must be dictated by the incoherence and instability of memory and perception : in Le Vent ( 1957 ) , L'Herbe ( 1958 ) , La Route des Flandres ( 1960 ) , Le Palace ( 1962 ) and Histoire ( 1967 ) , the fragmentation and discontinuity of reality is conveyed in the narrative syntax itself . |
| 2 | It is not hard , however , to make a strong case for the view that unrest in a particular part of the empire in 1858 loomed large in the regime 's decision to opt for the version of emancipation which gave peasants land . |
| 3 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 4 | Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot 's script called for the clerk to be a ‘ heavy ’ type , but Crawford was successful in changing the underling to a meek , nervous sort . |
| 5 | In July 1940 Bletchley had intercepted a message from Goering to the chiefs of staff of the Luftwaffe in which was made clear Hitler 's intention to prepare for the invasion of Britain — ‘ Operation Sea Lion ’ , as it was code-named . |
| 6 | Without a moment 's hesitation Stirling 's jeep headed for the runway , the fighting formation behind him . |
| 7 | So to New York , where the world of women 's tennis met for the Virginia Slims Championships to a background of political ferment , following my disclosure in The Daily Telegraph , that , like the men three years earlier , the women — or at least the WTA board — felt they were also ready to declare UDI . |
| 8 | This shift was particularly evident in Hoffmann 's pavilion designed for the Secession 's 1908 Kunstschau . |
| 9 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 10 | Did Manchester United 's relegation to Division Two , England 's failure to qualify for the Argentina Soccer World Cup , Australia 's mid-70s cricket XI , see the demise of their sport ? |
| 11 | German doctors at a university hospital in Bavaria planned to keep the unnamed brain-dead woman 's body functioning for the sake of the child , which was not due to be born until next April . |
| 12 | This delighted Mr Winston Churchill , who as First Lord of the Admiralty was anxious to secure the Royal Navy 's fuel supplies for the war which seemed imminent . |
| 13 | From the start , he was in conflict with the DUP 's leadership who tried to persuade him not to accept the local branch 's nomination to stand for the Assembly . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't want the player 's name slurred for the rest of his career for something done in innocence , ’ said Mr Howes . |
| 15 | Konstantinos Karamanlis , a former state President and founder of New Democracy , had on Feb. 10 turned down ND 's request to stand for the presidency . |
| 16 | Well , as Georgina Meinertzhagen 's father calls for the law to be tightened on under age drinking , landlords say it 's almost impossible to tell how old some of their customers are . |
| 17 | Cook 's father worked for the Pennymans on the estate , and Cook spent part of his childhood here . |
| 18 | I see erm it also misheard me here because I 'm involved in designing a television series as well on the construction industry also gives me some interesting data about the industry was it ten per cent of the nation 's workforce works for the construction industry which in an average year will turn over thirty five billion pounds |
| 19 | Ndembu say that the sapling 's pliancy stands for the girl 's immaturity and youth : the tree is sometimes stated to be the novice 's ‘ matrilineage ’ , and its leaves her ‘ children ’ . |
| 20 | This gives an impression of speed which is so important in this interpretation of Czerny 's finger exercises for the piano , and is quite alien to the soft rise and fall of the Sylphides ' jetés danced to Chopin 's romantic music in a woodland glade . |
| 21 | As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) . |
| 22 | He wants daddy 's knife to use for the marmalade . |
| 23 | I went downstairs to the phone in my dressing-gown , pausing only for a second outside Toby 's door to listen for the typewriter , which was silent , and for another moment outside Mavis 's to leave her snuff-box . |
| 24 | Sheldukher 's hand went for the voltage control . |
| 25 | Yet it was Bridgeman who , at the special National Union Conference in July 1906 , seconded Maxse 's motion calling for the reform of Conservative Central Office , a motion which stemmed directly from Maxse 's ‘ paranoid ’ view of the obstructiveness of the Party mandarins towards the tariff campaign . |
| 26 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 27 | ‘ I sha n't be hanging around when the starter 's gun goes for the final , and I reckon I 'm in with as good a chance as anybody . |
| 28 | Much later , after the funeral , Billy 's mother looked for the letter that Auntie had written to the pension people . |
| 29 | As Alvarez returned home , the Mexican Attorney General 's office called for the extradition of two DEA agents who , it alleged , had helped to organize the doctor 's abduction . |
| 30 | In other words , where yesterday 's historian looked for the history of an oppressed working class , today 's historian looks for marginalized groups , and those who have transgressed social norms . |