Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 2 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 3 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 4 | The Daimler is entirely adequate for the needs of Mirror Group Newspapers ' current chairman , Ernie Burrington , says Ted . |
| 5 | However , precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level , they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition . |
| 6 | Therefore , anaerobic sampling which is a necessity in serum because of the possible CO 2 loss from the sample is not as crucial for the measurements of gall bladder bile because of the small effect on Ca 2 + activity with a CO 2 loss from the sample where pH changes only minimal . |
| 7 | In reality , it was virtually impossible for the supporters of democracy to rally . |
| 8 | As the defendant had explained the nature of the operation in general terms , her consent was real for the purposes of battery . |
| 9 | Which is , perhaps , sad for the writers of television series , or even for those more serious people who think agencies are full of a breed of viciously frivolous vampires bent on sucking the blood of the poor innocent public . |
| 10 | It can be argued that the major failings in 1940 lay not with the government but with the Army whose ageing generals were quite unprepared for the tactics of blitzkrieg . |
| 11 | Here it is not a question of suggesting that Hegel is somehow answerable for the excesses of capitalism or even socialism in the past two hundred years : rather what is at stake is the argument that the dominant force of opposition to capitalism , Marxism , as a body of knowledge itself remains complicit with , and even extends , the system to which it is opposed . |
| 12 | The stated aims of the restructuring were partly to reduce the recent increased level of borrowing , but also to make individuals more accountable and profit conscious for the areas of operation under their control . |
| 13 | Here , sandstone furnished a buff colour , pennant stone a blue , liar the white for the tesserae of room 11 . |
| 14 | Under ( a ) , for instance , it states that — " any individual … who at the time of joining the German forces or joining a formation fighting with the German forces , was living within the 1938 boundary of the USSR , will be treated as a Soviet National for the purposes of transfer . " |
| 15 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 16 | The campaigns were not only successful politically , but they also became famous for the deeds of prowess and valour done by the leaders of the English forces and the booty and ransoms they won . |
| 17 | The short article by , Painter ( 1989 ) is also useful for the dimensions of leadership in the civil service . |
| 18 | The minor jobbing work such as labels , bills and prospectuses , which every printer undertook , was a valuable — perhaps an essential — part of the scheme , for it filled gaps that were too short for the stages of book production . |
| 19 | The sacrifices of war made Iraqis hungry for the fruits of victory . |
| 20 | In short , his argument is that it is the very abstraction which confers the material advantages of modern science , and the social advantages of both modern freedom and equality , which is also responsible for the dilemmas of exploitation and alienation. the central conflict is not , therefore , one between liberalism and equality , which come from the same root , but one emerging from a recognition that both of these entail consequences which may turn against the interests of the subject . |
| 21 | If such a working model of haemoglobin could be made , it would prove once and for all that it is the iron and not the porphyrin that 's ultimately responsible for the properties of haemoglobin . |
| 22 | All it is , is the government and state washing it 's hands of it 's responsibility of , and of society as a whole is responsibility , is responsible for the children of society . |
| 23 | The argument here is that the psychological tendencies responsible for the symptoms of psychosis are not the prerogative of the clinically psychotic . |
| 24 | Irwin also canvassed with Salisbury an improved form of dyarchy , the elaborate system set up in 1921 whereby elected Indian ministers in the provincial governments were entrusted with various unexciting portfolios , while British officials remained responsible for the essentials of law , order and taxation . |
| 25 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 26 | For example , in the definition of when a company becomes insolvent for the purposes of disqualification of unfit directors of insolvent companies : see section 6(2) ( b ) ; and the application of the reporting provisions affecting administrative receivers as office holders in section 7(3) ( d ) and section 7(4) . |
| 27 | Section 59 defines when a company becomes insolvent for the purposes of section 58 . |
| 28 | ‘ And convenient for the Houses of Parliament . |
| 29 | Although Roll and Ross have subsequently identified 4 factors , 19 it is more convenient for the purposes of exposition to assume that there are only 2 as follows : . |
| 30 | It is common for the articles of association of a company that is a management buy-out vehicle , a joint venture company , or which is owned by multiple shareholders to provide that the sale of the assets and undertaking of the company requires the consent of specified individuals . |