Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation . |
| 2 | Up to 15 of the 40 companies affected may not be able to function from their normal premises for the foreseeable future . |
| 3 | Comparative evidence from better-documented periods indicates that at times of monetary reform transitional arrangements were made to enable people to exchange their old coins for the new ones . |
| 4 | Smith 's organisation has run their commercial activities for the past six years . |
| 5 | Their quadrennial stampede for the moral high ground is more fervent than ever , as Democrat Bill Clinton and Gary Hart before him can testify . |
| 6 | SHOWBIZ stars last night honoured six unsung heroes for their behind-the-scenes work for the disabled and disadvantaged . |
| 7 | R. G. Wallace and Kevin Jeffereys have disagreed about the relative responsibilities of politicians — R. A. Butler and J. Chuter Ede — and their civil servants for the reforming intentions of the Act . |
| 8 | Their consistent support for the new Israeli state reflected the existence of an American Jewish community — wealthy , strong in voting power , and highly organized as a political pressure group . |
| 9 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |
| 10 | — their remarkable concern for the under-privileged : slaves , strangers , women , orphans ; |
| 11 | In the Sixties , their chosen models for the urban Britain of the future were American . |
| 12 | Japanese banks were all-powerful in the 1980s but have been reducing their international involvement for the past 18 months in order to focus on their domestic problems . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 15 | Somerset have signed Pakistan legspinner Mushtaq Ahmed , 22 , as their overseas player for the next three years . |
| 16 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 17 | ‘ Fiona of Burnham ’ and ‘ Morning All ’ both headed their respective classes for the second time , while the Contessa 32 ‘ Space ’ ( R Brooking and P Trudgett , HPYC ) could feel extremely satisfied with a second and a third to show for her weekend efforts . |
| 18 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
| 19 | In Britain , especially , the political ideas of trade union leaders in recent decades have been very confused ; on one side , most of them have continued to proclaim their general support for the Labour Party , and thus for the idea of a socialist society , however vaguely conceived , while on the other side , many of them have accepted in fact the principles of a market economy in the emphasis which they place upon ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 20 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally , at a time when the demand for public accountability has never been greater , it is worth remembering that many museums receive substantial grants towards what is supposed to be their educational provision for the general public . |
| 23 | The Annamese mandarin looked at Joseph 's eager face for a moment , then his eyes lost their watchful look for the first time and he smiled . |
| 24 | Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy narrowly defeated a no confidence vote in the National Assembly on June 1 , in which 25 deputies of the French Communist Party ( PCF ) abandoned their passive support for the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) to join the opposition parties tabling the motion — the Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) . |
| 26 | I do welcome those who have travelled from York and Hull , perhaps seeing their new Cathedral for the first time . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | ANDES members are active in the protest against human rights violations and continue their organizational work for the popular organizations . |
| 29 | The operating divisions prepare their preliminary budgets for the following year in March . |
| 30 | 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 . |