Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a magazine called Kine Weekly , which would give a showman 's award for the best stunt . |
| 2 | It won the Royal Television Society 's award for the Best Drama Serial of the year , and a Silver Nymph for the screenplay at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo in 1990 . |
| 3 | Reaction in the wider Muslim world and throughout the South has been similar — in Pakistan , for example , curfews are in force and the military leadership has condemned Pakistan 's support for the multi-national force . |
| 4 | Peking was upset by Hong Kong 's support for the pro-democracy movement . |
| 5 | Mr Lang said that Scottish Office funding for the laboratory complex was firm evidence of the Government 's support for the future importance of science and technology . |
| 6 | ( A decade later , the Pentagon 's support for the large-scale integration of circuits on silicon surfaces almost surreptitiously created a new industry . ) |
| 7 | If the government 's support for the landowning nobility perpetuated its age-old conflict with the peasantry , the direct corollary of its close alliance with industrial employers was confrontation with labour . |
| 8 | On Feb. 14 Labour MP Clare Short resigned from the opposition front bench after criticizing her party 's support for the allied bombing campaign . |
| 9 | It was now Joffre 's turn to convert the doubters , and on 4 September he went to BEF headquarters at Melun and in an emotional meeting won French 's support for the proposed attack . |
| 10 | Thirdly , the Labour party 's support for the social action programme of the social charter and for a minimum wage represents a political double-barrelled shotgun aimed at the working population , particularly those in lower-paid jobs . |
| 11 | The first visit by a senior Chinese official in over 13 years , and designed to signal China 's support for the Cambodian peace process , it had been postponed twice in December due to unrest in Phnom Penh [ see p. 38680 ] . |
| 12 | As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council , China 's support for the US-led effort to reverse Iraq 's annexation of Kuwait was vital . |
| 13 | Channel 4 's support for the British film industry will also continue . |
| 14 | The French were certainly taken aback by Adenauer 's support for the common market . |
| 15 | Kylie 's support for the green crusade was formed during her childhood years growing up surrounded by the abundance of natural beauty in her native land . |
| 16 | Journalists who shared Herr 's enthusiasm for the whole experience , if enthusiasm is the word , tend to quote with wistful nostalgia one particular line from Dispatches : ‘ I think Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Blair 's plea for the party-political baggage to be abandoned is a precious opportunity that must be grasped , not least by John Major , who just two weeks ago was blaming crime on ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 18 | A SUMMER Ball held in the Summer Fayre marquee on the Friday evening raised over £10,000 for the Children 's Hospice for the eastern region at Milton , Cambs . |
| 19 | The father 's preparation for the Civil Service Examination — probably as rigorous an academic test as the external London matriculation examinations of the first forty years of this century — had given him command of three languages , Latin , French , and German , and a powerful interest in political and philosophical topics . |
| 20 | However figures out today reveal that the Teesside Development Corporation is building one million square feet of office space 84pc of the county 's provision for the next decade and most of it will be concentrated on its flagship site of Teesdale , Thornaby . |
| 21 | His direct ways won enough support among the voters for the Liberal Democrats to enjoy a bigger-than-expected victory in last month 's election for the lower house of parliament . |
| 22 | It also exonerates the community from taking on some of these tasks — caring for the elderly , the chronically sick and the disabled , and it is this aspects of the emphasis on family responsibility that produces scepticism about the motivation of exponents of active citizenship : it is seen as a substitute for the state 's responsibility for the social element of the citizenship of entitlement . |
| 23 | Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , elected to succeed President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt as the organization 's Chairman for the coming year , said after the summit that Africa should be allowed to develop its own response to pressure for political change . |
| 24 | Beatrice Webb 's admiration for the philanthropic work of Mary Booth rested on the way in which the latter expressed ‘ gentle and loving contempt for any special work outside the ordinary sphere of a woman 's life , [ and ] her high standard of excellence which should discourage any vain attempt to leave the beaten track of a woman 's duty ’ . |
| 25 | Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final . |
| 26 | CINEMA buffs may remember the film 10 about Dudley Moore 's search for the perfect girl — the 10 out of 10 . |
| 27 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 28 | Make a copy of the last graph and on it plot the sales of Mr Gordon Mr Richard 's rival for the same week . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't remember a horse so far ahead in the Grand National at this stage ! ’ enthused commentator Julian Wilson on BBC television as Crisp came to Becher 's Brook for the second time , still looking uncatchable : galloping relentlessly and jumping brilliantly , he was thirty lengths clear and showed no signs of flagging . |
| 30 | But No. 89 with its witty pauses in the finale is also a delight , though Kuijken 's speed for the slow movement is not an Andante con moto by any stretch of the imagination . |