Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 2 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 3 | I have also disclosed my intention for the effect that the book will have . |
| 4 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 5 | I 'd just like to thank the fellow colleagues of my team for the effort and I regard er a very worthwhile and creditable performance . |
| 6 | I am deeply grateful to the Technique and to my teacher for the patience that he had . |
| 7 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
| 8 | If not then I 'll plead to my wife for the car & I 'll be able to offer other people a lift there ( but I 'll be coming back on Sunday ) . |
| 9 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 10 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 11 | The Anglican clergy , on the other hand , tended to rally behind the Tories , often marching to the polls en masse to give their support for the Church and Queen candidates . |
| 12 | The majority of the newspapers had become woefully compromised in their support for the government and good investigative journalism was one of the casualties . |
| 13 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 14 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report on Feb. 21 claimed that Congress ( I ) had threatened to withdraw its support for the government unless the five ministers were removed . |
| 15 | After the election the new government in November 1990 again expressed its support for the ban and confirmed that it remained in place . |
| 16 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 17 | Through its support for the war and its positive participation in the construction of the war economy the Labour movement helped to create a fund of popular support for socialist objectives . |
| 18 | But it had a promenade deck , like the Hindenburg , and carried its passengers in considerable luxury even allowing for the natural exaggeration of the Imperial Airways Gazette : ‘ passengers making air journeys in the new Empire type flying boats of Imperial Airways not only express their admiration for the speed and quietness in flight of these air liners , and for the spaciousness of their saloons , but they also pay warm tributes to the efficiency of their catering arrangement ’ . |
| 19 | By their statement of claim the council claimed , inter alia , ( i ) that the council was the county council for Derbyshire and pursuant to statute was responsible for a wide range of governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , and in particular the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( ii ) that in those issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ the third and fourth defendants falsely and maliciously wrote and the first and second defendants falsely and maliciously printed and published , or caused to be written , printed or published of and concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( iii ) by reason of the words published in the articles the council had been injured in its credit and reputation and had been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and had suffered loss and damage . |
| 20 | ‘ of and … concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund the following words … |
| 21 | The government has also failed in its responsibility for the Health and Sa Safety Executive by restricting year after year adequate resources for them to carry out the function that they were designed for . |
| 22 | He was one of several players to make their debut for the province while still at school . |
| 23 | Participants were asked to write a letter to themselves as if from an imaginary — or real — ex-pupil , expressing their appreciation for the contribution that they , the teachers , had made to the pupil 's life . |
| 24 | But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present . |
| 25 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 26 | This is perhaps not unexpected , given their reverence for the past and their long tradition of scholarship and collecting stretching back over several millennia . |
| 27 | Then the land had to be cleared of its debris for the sowing and pasture , and the forests cleared of their tangle , and the journeys made , of necessity , to bring in new seed and new livestock . |
| 28 | In a statement afterwards , the BBC said it had ‘ apologised to Mr Wright and his family and expressed their regret for the damage and distress caused ’ . |
| 29 | In hilly country , horses always like to spend some of each day on the tops of the hills : they need to satisfy their desire for the space and freedom that a hilltop provides . |
| 30 | Inevitably , many of the men around the Shah blame the Queen and her circle for the debacle that befell the monarchy in 1978 . |