Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME . |
| 2 | Judging by the amount of Kodak film expended by watching tourists in the seconds it took the train to cross the viaduct , I was alone in my seething contempt for the caviar wagon . |
| 3 | That is the kind of consequence to which Labour Members are characteristically blind , as they are blind in their continued support for the national statutory minimum wage . |
| 4 | All partners are unlimited in their personal liability for the debts and obligations of the firm incurred whilst a partner . |
| 5 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 6 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |
| 7 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |
| 8 | The two men were dressed in their best clothes for the Bazaar , with Sigarup , pale and lifeless , looking out backwards from the shrouds of his blanket in the basket on Kānchho 's back . |
| 9 | Groups of morris dancers from as far afield as the Cotswolds and the Borders took to the streets in their colourful costumes for the festival procession through the town centre . |
| 10 | Seems that THE SHAMEN have enlisted the services of an enigmatic character by the name of Ebeneezer Goode to pose about and gurn a bit in their latest video for the single of the same name . |
| 11 | This will coincide with the completion of intensive redecoration of the Primate 's Palace , thus enabling the complete sequence of all six tapestries to be seen in their original setting for the first time in thirty years . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 13 | In their excessive respect for the text they may fail to bring their own ideas and their own critical attention to what they are reading . |
| 14 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 15 | While the ARC cooks were emptying crabs and boning racks of lamb , five girls were involved in their own competition for the espoir , the most promising young cook . |
| 16 | The lights flickered on and off , illuminating others bustling back and forth , too busy in their own rush for the exits to bother with the intruders . |
| 17 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 18 | So too does its preoccupation with the shadow of death , looming in their own generation for the first time . |
| 19 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 20 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 21 | Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles . |
| 22 | If they differed substantially in their subsequent support for the candidates , then we could be almost certain that the phoney poll information they were fed contributed to which candidate they supported . |
| 23 | In their enthusiastic welcome for the referendum result , Lithuanian leaders pointed out that many ethnic Poles and Russians ( who made up 20 per cent of Lithuania 's population ) must have voted for independence , contradicting Soviet allegations that Lithuania 's minorities felt persecuted and needed to be defended by Soviet troops . |
| 24 | Tumin concludes that in their enthusiastic search for the positive functions of stratification , the functionalists have tended to ignore or play down its many dysfunctions . |
| 25 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 26 | We may , however , dispute any implication that serious unresolved moral uncertainty is shared with the audience by the fabliau writer , without necessarily following Boutet in her ultimate respect for the authority of the conventional moral closure . |
| 27 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
| 28 | Sylvia was an intelligent woman , quite sensible enough to realize that there was probably some reason in her early life for the current problem . |
| 29 | LITTLE Laura Davies played happily at home yesterday morning after waking in her own bed for the first time in more than five months . |
| 30 | In its Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 1985 , the CDA recorded that whereas , in August 1980 , 305 industrial co-operatives had been identified , the number was now about 1,200 . |