Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ushered forward after cooling his heels for four minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't drink , ’ Magige assured him shakily , ignoring her previous thoughts of raiding his cupboards for stiff drinks . |
| 3 | But this made the Department and ministers once again vulnerable to charges of abdicating their responsibilities for financial and policy goals . |
| 4 | In his introduction to the Annual Review , Dr Eyre stressed the importance of strengthening our opportunities for new business by forming commercial partnerships by acquisition and joint ventures . |
| 5 | Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come . |
| 6 | His supporters prevented the SPD from writing their ideas for social and economic change into the Basic Law , defeated SPD hopes for a more centralised government and later ( in November 1949 ) ensured that Beethoven 's birthplace , Bonn , would be the capital of the new Republic . |
| 7 | The parents did not escape criticism : " the attendance of many of the boys was very far from satisfactory , parents having largely contracted habits of great laxity in absenting their children for trifling reasons " . |
| 8 | In differentiating various kinds of policies , and in interpreting their implications for ministerial power , it must be recognized that some policies have implications for more than one department . |
| 9 | Bukharin , in formulating his equations for extended reproduction , assumed that the ‘ economy ’ under consideration was moving from a state of simple reproduction to one of extended reproduction . |
| 10 | Thank you Lord , for hearing our prayers for those who have been ill and are now recovering ; thank you for the skills of hospital staff in caring for members of St Leonard 's over the past few weeks . |
| 11 | It was organised by the European Environmental Bureau , of which we are members , and aimed at clarifying our objectives for European Community action ( a Directive ? ) on CMZ in the run-up to the informal EC Environment Ministers meeting in Denmark later this month . |
| 12 | Behind the scenes efforts were being made to broaden the party 's appeal by strengthening its policies for social reform , the essential counterpoint to the theme of tariffs . |