Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the right hon. Gentleman say what support he is receiving from other G7 countries for his recent endorsement of a rouble stabilisation fund ? |
| 2 | I would like , at this point , to say thank you for Sh , to Sheila , sh , Sheila , she popped in to ask me would I do this er talk for you this afternoon . |
| 3 | Two things I want to just touch on er fairly briefly er because of the time factor but I do want to touch on before you get into continuing with your er development for your third presentation . |
| 4 | I would say it 's gone up 100 per cent , where before there was a logical argument to say that it 's negligible , that argument no longer exists ; it is not negligible , it is there , it is upon us now , and it is likely to er lead to considerable er hazard for our civilian population and civilian populations of all NATO countries if we do not address it . |
| 5 | The paramedics resuscitated Dawn , who had stopped breathing , and they later received the Queen 's Award for their prompt action . |
| 6 | Was in Torquay last weekend for one night at its expense to receive chairman 's award for my voluntary input to British Association of Industrial Editors , notably to Education & Professional Development — bliss to be funded and have a night in a good hotel and a trip up and down the river Dart in quite remarkable sunshine — glorious countryside . |
| 7 | This was all the more important , by virtue of the fact that he was , in some sense , a usurper — he had toppled a descendant of Hercules and needed some rival god 's support for his own assertions of legitimacy . |
| 8 | ‘ I liked Jimmy Boyce 's play for his quick decisions . |
| 9 | For they have the capacity to change — for example , Judd 's enthusiasm for their treasure-hunting plan turns to disillusion as he watches greed enhance Brett 's obstinacy and rouse passive Stringy to obstructive malice . |
| 10 | It 's not cricket , but it 's all hugely enjoyable and Reid 's enthusiasm for his favourite vice is infectious . |
| 11 | His daughter Jane once said , ‘ You will excuse my father 's enthusiasm for his darling art , he knows no other world than that in which a painter lives ’ … ‘ his spirit never flagged , his hand and eye were never idle . ’ |
| 12 | Ealhfrith may also have been apprehensive about his father 's plans for his younger half-brother , Ecgfrith , who appears to have married Aethelthryth , widowed daughter of Anna , king of the eastern Angles , c . |
| 13 | Moreover , as a result of the defences of act of God , act of a third party and statutory authority , the courts must investigate not only the reasonableness of the accumulation , but also the defendant 's responsibility for its actual escape . |
| 14 | Audubon had often shown a predator with its prey , and the relatively static bird plates of John Gould 's artists for his splendid volumes also show this . |
| 15 | HUE AND CRY : ‘ Truth And Love ’ Glaswegian sophisto-pop duo 's debut for their own label , featuring two recent singles ‘ Profoundly Yours ’ and ‘ In Between ’ , plus a cover of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ That Girl ’ |
| 16 | Boro manager Lennie Lawrence praised the team 's fans for their marvellous support during the season . |
| 17 | Nomura was also censured for breaking a rule which barred securities firms from holding more than 5 per cent of any company 's stock for their own investment purposes ( i.e. as distinct from holding them for clients ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Clingy ’ and ‘ insecure ’ are someone 's labels for their subjective judgements . |
| 19 | The government 's programme for its third term of office contained provisions for further major privatizations , notably of the water and sewerage authorities and the electricity industry . |
| 20 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 21 | In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11-point deficit , Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams 's break for their second try . |
| 22 | The statutes for the constitution and organisation of the College , and Vial 's plan for its internal order and regulation , were unanimously approved . |
| 23 | Mobium Computer Corp has moved to LSI Logic 's 40MHz chips for its new Mirage series of Sparcettes , looking to swap them out when Texas Instruments Inc Vikings become available : the IPS/2 comes diskless at $7,000 ; $8,600 buys 520Mb disk , 16Mb RAM expandable to 128Mb , three Sbus slots , Weitek Corp floating-point unit and a 17-inch 1152 x 900 colour screen . |
| 24 | He arrived in Britain , where he soon found supporting roles in the cinema , notably in Victoria the Great ( 1937 ) , Herbert Wilcox 's vehicle for his future wife , Anna Neagle ; then as a schoolmaster in Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) ; and finally in Carol Reed 's Night Train to Munich ( 1940 ) , in which he played a treacherous Gestapo agent with a telling degree of coldness . |
| 25 | I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility . |
| 26 | It was an unemotional summary ; Rostov thought that it hid well the bitterness which he felt towards Irina 's kin for their concerted opposition to her marriage , for the years of separation which had been achieved by her father 's influence with the Navy Board and , not least , for the extent to which Alexei 's upbringing had been influenced by the rigid infrastructure of the Court . |
| 27 | — God 's undertakings for his obedient people ( 23:20–33 ) |
| 28 | Similarly , ultimate rights of control over the company are legally vested in the shareholders , giving them , at least in theory , the ability to shape the company 's purposes for their own ends . |
| 29 | Spike Lee , director of the $50-million film ‘ Malcolm X ’ , is among them , offering a music video , as is the photographer Cindy Sherman , who this time substitutes various parts of a doll 's body for her characteristic self-portrait . |
| 30 | He bravely nipped in between the two players and showed a delicate touch to loft the ball over Sutton 's body for his 11th goal of the season . |