Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | GMTV took over the morning franchise from TV-am and last month brought in LWT 's chief executive Greg Dyke as chairman to spearhead its fight for more viewers . |
| 2 | The author , Giancarlo Ferraris , of course earns our gratitude for his achievement in amassing so much largely fresh documentation on the famous cabinet maker Pietro Piffetti and on a flush of other Turinese baroque and rococo furniture-makers . |
| 3 | And if you have a very small amount of money , and a large number of erm demands on , on that budget , then the last thing you 're going to do , is to spend a lot of money reinforcing your house for an earthquake that may affect your grandchildren and not you . |
| 4 | LITTLETON villagers are planning a summer of action to highlight their campaign for road improvements . |
| 5 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 6 | Although in some ways it seems hardly necessary to have to justify this , the concerns of management merit our interest for a number of reasons . |
| 7 | She gave Eva plenty of scope to prepare her mind for the whole matter of the interpretation of the gospel in Africa , and how to make the good news relevant in a non-Christian environment . |
| 8 | The two largest companies , National Power and PowerGen , have appealed to Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine to overturn the decision after Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution rejected their request for secrecy . |
| 9 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 10 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , the very accuracy of these scoring systems for assessing the severity of illness precludes their use for comparison and audit . |
| 12 | The heads of government pledged their support for the attempts of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) to find a solution to the crisis in Haiti [ see p. 38758 ] and condemned the attempted coup in Venezuela [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 13 | For a moment that might have lasted hours she seemed to see herself , old and weak , and knew that now she could be free and the burden of life leave her wings for ever . |
| 14 | ‘ The deployment of sexuality has its reasons for being , not in reproducing itself , but in proliferating , innovating , annexing , creating , and penetrating bodies in an increasingly detailed way , and in controlling populations in an increasingly comprehensive way . ’ |
| 15 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 16 | An appeal to the House of Lords was the only avenue left open to him after the High Court rejected his bid to overturn the decision and then , in December , the Court of Appeal refused his application for a judicial review . |
| 17 | The Court of Appeal upheld his claim for damages for wrongful dismissal . |
| 18 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 19 | A DYING lung cancer victim is fighting against time to finish his evidence for his £500,000 test case against a tobacco company he blames for his illness . |
| 20 | Government will work in partnership to secure our heritage for the benefit of future generations . |
| 21 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 22 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | Clearly he is a man who , on the night in question allowed his enthusiasm for sex to overcome normal behaviour . ’ |
| 24 | Indignation grew as the stench became increasingly nauseating and each local body in turn denied its liability for disposing of several tons of putrefying whalemeat . |
| 25 | Russia in turn dropped its demands for compensation for its investments in military bases . |
| 26 | They 're urging any parents who 're in doubt to contact their GP for advice . |
| 27 | They 're urging any parents who 're in doubt to contact their GP for advice . |
| 28 | In each case one begins with a problem , seeks to understand it as fully as possible , works out purposes , devises a plan of action , carries it out , and reviews what has happened in order to judge its implications for future action . |
| 29 | Changes relevant to the LFAs proposed in the EEC Review of agricultural structures are assessed in order to predict their implications for the UK situation . |
| 30 | For there is a formula which generates the ‘ deviant ’ continuation from the same early stages ; since both series start in the same way , we can not appeal to the way in which one starts in order to justify our preference for its way of going on . |