Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | LITTLETON villagers are planning a summer of action to highlight their campaign for road improvements . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , the very accuracy of these scoring systems for assessing the severity of illness precludes their use for comparison and audit . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal upheld his claim for damages for wrongful dismissal . |
| 12 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |