Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 2 | China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year . |
| 3 | The new government quickly showed its enthusiasm for the private medical sector which was growing rapidly in 1979 , and in 1980 Gerard Vaughan , Minister of Health , expressed the belief that it might grow to around one quarter of the size of the NHS . |
| 4 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |
| 5 | Since this was Keith Jones ' last committee meeting , the committee expressed its gratitude for the valuable contributions he had made to the committee . |
| 6 | The organization nevertheless attracted 50,000 supporters to a rally in central Sofia on Jan. 14 when it presented its platform for the round table talks . |
| 7 | This caning had its effect for the whole class knew that Miss Smith would stand no nonsense and it stamped her authority . |
| 8 | It is not the Jacobean Marney Abbey but the actual abbey from whose stones it was built which should become the model for the great houses of Victorian England , because the original abbey — in Disraeli 's view — held its property for the common good . |