Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 2 | That means that after years of scrimping and saving at Charlton Lawrence should enjoy the luxury of preparing for the big time with money to spend . |
| 3 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 4 | Offer it up , people said : offer everything up , the happy times too , it 's all part of praying for the holy souls . |
| 5 | That from the nobility , gentry , clergy , yeomanry and freeholders of Middlesex considered the action both illegal and arbitrary as well as threatening to the very concept of private property : " the pretended necessity of reserving for the public service the specie deposited by individuals in the Bank … may be pleaded at any time , and applied , with equal reason , to any private property whatsoever " . |
| 6 | A sudden wave of feeling for the clever , perfectionist girl washed over him . |
| 7 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 8 | The difficulty of accounting for the historical demographic transition by conventional economic measures ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) , and the fall of fertility even in some Third World countries with little economic progress today ( Cleland 1985 ) , has revived interest in non-material motivations for childbearing . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , in the course of preparing for the great race , I have become aware that the message to visiting runners is : ‘ Go home — dead or alive . ’ |
| 10 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 11 | In some instances , the pace of long-term change is being intensified , for instance in the provision of housing for the rural population , while in others relatively new features are evident , for example in farm indebtedness . |
| 12 | I hope I have not made the experience of caring for the sick parent sound all gloom and sacrifice and bedpans . |
| 13 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 14 | Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension . |
| 15 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 16 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
| 17 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 18 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 19 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 20 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 21 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 22 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 23 | The rhetoric of Idealism , as proclaimed by , for example , Sadler , Urwick , and Haldane , gave intellectual credence to their views on the importance of educating for the new democratic age , as they perceived it , especially after 1918 . |
| 24 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 25 | It was utterly dull and repetitive , day after day of filing for the Inland Revenue . |
| 26 | Choosing the best time to buy is not always possible , and sometimes the inconvenience of waiting for the right moment can cause more trouble than any financial saving may by worth . |
| 27 | ‘ And Zimbabwe have got a very good chance of qualifying for the African Nations Cup AND the World Cup . ’ |
| 28 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 29 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 30 | A complete code of pleading for the High Court is in the High Court rules ( RSC Ord 18 and Ord 18 , r 12(1) as amended ) , which now requires pleadings to include , in relation to damages claims , details of any mitigation claimed by the defendant . |