Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time . |
| 2 | Here was yet another aspect of Thrush Green to increase his growing affection for the place . |
| 3 | Of course , you may have to provide your own substitute for the impeccable James who serves it . |
| 4 | Not that the failure of Gatting and Co. to mount their anticipated bid for the Championship can be laid at Brown 's door . |
| 5 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 6 | Highways committee members are being asked to state their preferred route for the Fordham bypass . |
| 7 | If you 're complete beginners , active , familiar with camping or caravanning conditions , and two or you pay for our ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course in Nidri , then we know you 'll be safe to skipper your own yacht for the second week on flotilla . |
| 8 | But he proved , when he joined the illustrious band of Yorkshire bowlers to take 1000 wickets for the county , that experience and craftsmanship still count for much in a game which seems to reserve its greatest acclaim for the lean , young gunslingers . |
| 9 | She had no words in which to express her present distaste for the idea . |
| 10 | We are anxious to express our wholehearted support for the renewal , on a permanent basis , of the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty — an objective which we know is shared by HMG . |
| 11 | Buckingham Palace , 12th December 1987 My dear Miss Jones , We are writing to you to express our sincere gratitude for the way in which you recently risked your life by diving in front of the runaway horse of one of our Lifeguards to save one of our Royal corgis . |
| 12 | MY WIFE and I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the heart-warming friendliness shown to us by the Liverpool citizens we met at the celebrations . |
| 13 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 14 | Lineker and Paul Gascoigne have both been in touch with Spurs to wish them good luck for the new season . |
| 15 | I 'm going to do my good deed for the day . |
| 16 | The Central Authority itself had to fix its own tariff for the bulk supply of electricity to the Boards and initially did well in reflecting costs by resisting pressure for ‘ postalisation ’ or charging a common national price . |
| 17 | In Britain , especially , the political ideas of trade union leaders in recent decades have been very confused ; on one side , most of them have continued to proclaim their general support for the Labour Party , and thus for the idea of a socialist society , however vaguely conceived , while on the other side , many of them have accepted in fact the principles of a market economy in the emphasis which they place upon ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 18 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 19 | Melissa had been intrigued to know what kind of man could persuade Iris to leave her beloved garden for the best part of a fortnight at the height of the growing season . |
| 20 | Curry , from London , outshone allcomers to retain her British title for the third year running . |
| 21 | Dawn 's parents had to give their written permission for the transfer , which added to their anxieties about the situation . |
| 22 | Stevens , despite losing the bout , clearly did enough to justify his pre-event selection for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 23 | Stevens , despite losing the bout , clearly did enough to justify his pre-event selection for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 24 | Shildon had made remarkable progress in a short time but needed help as he was trying to do his normal work for the business section at the same time . |
| 25 | So come on , leave Geoff to do his good work for the benefit of the community . |
| 26 | With the report writer you are totally free to use your own narrative for the row description — sales , gas , electricity , whatever . |
| 27 | Celia Fiennes , in high disgust at finding ‘ froggs and slow-worms and snailes in my roome ’ when lodging in Ely , had the honesty to qualify her personal dislike for the place , which ‘ must needs be very unhealthy , tho' the natives say much to the contrary which proceeds from custom and use ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ He seems to keep his best golf for the ‘ big ones ’ , and is still one of the toughest competitors in the game . |
| 29 | In his book , One Hundred Days in Europe , he wrote : ‘ Our recently naturalized fellow-citizens , of a different blood and different religion , must not suppose that we are going to forget our inborn love for the mother to whom we owe our being . ’ |
| 30 | Thus with their typically lower pay ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) and lower lifetime earnings compared with men , the average woman ends up with a lower salary or wage on which to base her final salary for the purposes of working out occupational pension entitlements . |