Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun sg] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 2 | Dowling himself was an irregular , a member of the Old Catholic Church , a splinter group that did not recognize the supremacy of Rome ; he was drawn into the cause as a result of saying house Masses for expatriate Nicaraguans in San Francisco . |
| 3 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 4 | Their visits were threatening and long , and eventually the agency gave up hope of substituting mulberry trees for opium . |
| 5 | The Britannia leased asset management system presents the results of different methods of calculating interest repayments for finance leases , providing users with the information needed to evaluate the differing effects on their organisation 's tax bill . |
| 6 | For instance , the CIA at one stage ran a brothel in Paris in conjunction with the French intelligence organisation , SDECE , with the purpose of obtaining blackmail material for use against eastern block diplomats and similar people . |