Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] for the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for my right hon. Friend 's personal position , may I express my admiration for the frank and manly way in which he has offered his resignation ? |
| 2 | She twinkled with pleasure as I wove a windmill-tilting , dragon-vanquishing saga of my quest for the frothy and elusive grail . |
| 3 | In a society which took seriously its responsibility for the economic and social welfare of all its members this might not happen . |
| 4 | Many councils have employed too many staff over the years , have been too inefficient , and have not maintained their homes for the elderly and residential care homes as well as they should have done . |
| 5 | they comply with the reasonable instructions of the University and its Officers for the proper and efficient management and protection of the University 's facilities , premises and property . |
| 6 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 7 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 8 | For all its faults , it can at least be said for the modern world that it has produced a substantial body of articulate opinion that blends passion with compassion in its concern for the impoverished and starving peoples of the world . |
| 9 | The families , she said , had asked her to express their gratitude for the warm and caring support from everyone there ; they were grateful , too , for the many messages of support and sympathy coming from outside Orkney . |
| 10 | This gave him his reputation as a young scholar of great originality , and , combined with his gift for the clear and persuasive exposition of his ideas , brought him an international range of senior academic appointments . |
| 11 | Mr. Crowther reached in his pocket for the key but Matthew was there before him . |
| 12 | The legendary Marko is an embodiment of all that the Serbs wanted to believe of themselves — his heroism , his gentleness , his respect for the religious and social customs of his people , his ‘ machismo ’ , even his cruelty , but above all his fierce opposition to the Turks and his intense national pride . |
| 13 | Dexter was irritated by Blanche 's love of the difficult and complicated as opposed to his preference for the simple and straightforward . |
| 14 | For it is a condition of Dostoevsky 's art to arouse our longing for the settled and the normal and the beautiful itself . |