Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic problem with these killed virus flu vaccines is that they do not provide either complete protection or retain their effectiveness for very long . |
| 2 | the company does not commence its business within a year from its incorporation or suspends its business for a whole year ; |
| 3 | If you have bad luck in the chase , if your wife is persistently flighty and difficult , if a chief favours your rival and ignores your requests for attention , then the cause is or may be witchcraft . |
| 4 | Any plan or project that exercises your mind and gives you food for thought is good for you now . |
| 5 | With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good . |
| 6 | Emily paced around the book-lined study and blamed her father for his hostile attitude to Craig . |
| 7 | In response to the mass protests , Chief of Staff of the 8,000-strong army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , denounced the coup attempt and pledged his support for Aristide . |
| 8 | Husband Charles , 43 , was upset when Di picked a foreign car and made her pay for it herself . |
| 9 | On his way to the restaurant he passed a man and a woman arm in arm , a man walking purposefully , as if late for an appointment , a woman standing next to her car and searching her bag for the key . |
| 10 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 11 | He had been a scholar at Winchester and at Magdalen , where he gained a First in Law and got his Blue for cricket . |
| 12 | In Britain 's heyday we provided financial subsidies as well ; but though we have retained our fighting abilities , as was demonstrated by the Falklands Campaign , the decline in our resources relative to the superpowers now limits our influence and inhibits our quest for the greatest possible measure of national independence . |
| 13 | Joe gazed at the ceiling and tapped his fingers for a little longer . |
| 14 | The British studied the Plan and appreciated its importance for better Franco-German relations . |
| 15 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 16 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 17 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 18 | Rory secured her hair with a heavily jewelled clasp and studied her reflection for a moment before giving a little nod . |
| 19 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
| 20 | And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help . |
| 21 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 22 | Come along and meet scarf designer Georgina von Etzdorf and jewellery designers Donatella Pellini of of Pellini , Dinny Hall and American jewellery designer Mish Tworkowski and see their predictions for the hottest accessory looks this autumn . |
| 23 | These studies , which have British Canoe Union approval , are now being extended ( with funding from British Waterways ) to look at marathon paddlers using canal systems and this is your opportunity to take part and do your bit for science . |
| 24 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
| 25 | She would stand in the door of her enormous closet in a thick velour robe and choose her outfit for the afternoon . |
| 26 | You have an urge to taste freedom and desert your owner for the excitement of the wild . |
| 27 | We had been a little apprehensive about our chosen date as the May Fair was in full swing in the streets of Leominster , but everyone managed to reach the right car park and transport their offerings for a bring and buy produce stall which raised over £30.00 for the College Appeal . |
| 28 | Dr Neil lit the gas-lamp in the tiny hall and the one in the parlour and fetched their candles for them . |
| 29 | Tikhon knows the passage by heart and recites it word for word . |
| 30 | Happy knitting and thank you MKM for such a brilliant magazine . |