Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer recall that , in its report on the Budget , the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee stressed that it was important that the so-called automatic stabilisers should be allowed to operate fully and that there was a case for supplementing them with discretionary increases in public expenditure ? |
| 2 | Soldiers and diplomats who knew Yugoslavia well could make its complexities sound like an excuse for doing nothing at all . |
| 3 | The British initially negotiated with the Vichy authorities and showed no enthusiasm for replacing them with Free French officials , and in the end made belated concessions to appease Free French sensibilities . |
| 4 | — Members of Framwellgate Moor and District Royal British Legion branch have used the Framwellgate Moor WMC as a meeting place for over a quarter of a century and Legion members said thank you to the club for providing them with free accommodation during that time . |
| 5 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
| 6 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 7 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 8 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 9 | She would never forgive fitzAlan for putting her in this position , she promised herself . |
| 10 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
| 11 | It could also be explained as the product of pride — a disdain for integrating himself into any kind of partisan organization . |
| 12 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 13 | It makes the Chancellor the Saddam Hussein of economics for accomplishing it in such a brief period . |
| 14 | And even Scottish law , where pension rights are taken into account on divorce , has no mechanism for transferring them from one person to another . |
| 15 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 16 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 17 | However , the main reason for mentioning it in this methodological discussion is to show how subtle and fine-grained our analysis must be if we are to give an adequate account of the function of language variation in close-tie communities . |
| 18 | Our interest in these authors , and our reason for choosing them in particular , were also dictated by the fact that their writings contain abundant evidence of their psychological disorder , which they themselves often described in great detail . |
| 19 | That Act also places the onus on the knife carrier to show that he had good reason for possessing it in public . |