Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion that the Japanese are a nation of workaholics who are willing to sacrifice their personal lives for the good of their company has become a popular image . |
| 2 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |
| 3 | All the teams gathered in trepidation at the college to receive their respective challenges for the day . |
| 4 | Well , you know , apart from anything else they always they were prepared to give me free tickets for the would never do that . |
| 5 | Voters ' ideological self-placement on a left-right scale also tended to predict their relative preferences for the Conservative or Labour Parties . |
| 6 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 7 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 8 | With the contents of the average household valued at more than £15,000 , it 's vital to insure your prized possessions for the journey to their new home . |
| 9 | It is essential for the local and family historian to grasp this basic demographic information and to understand its profound consequences for the nature of English society . |
| 10 | The educational centre , at the edge of the industrial estate , has won a £1-for-£1 pledge from the Sports Council to back its fund-raising efforts for the £17,000 roof project . |
| 11 | Exhorting him to forgive his personal wrongs for the sake of his own greater glory , she sings an ariette about the dangers of being inflexible . |
| 12 | Why might a bank with a given amount of liquid assets be more willing to expand its mortgage loans for house purchase than to expand its personal loans for the purchase of consumer goods ? |
| 13 | Comparative evidence from better-documented periods indicates that at times of monetary reform transitional arrangements were made to enable people to exchange their old coins for the new ones . |
| 14 | As the profession 's representative body , the Law Society has had to face the question of how to achieve its strategic aims for the healthy development of the profession over the coming decade , in the absence for most of the year of the promised green shoots of economic recovery . |