Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medium-sized town stations sometimes reflected the styles in vogue for their grander counterparts . |
| 2 | The group consisted of pensions administrator , ( previously featured in LINK for her photographic wizardry ) , four brave young ladies from the Key Street and Lower Brook Street offices and an editor in tow — to jot down the details . |
| 3 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 4 | in payment for his rented room |
| 5 | She cried and wailed into Sally-Anne 's skirt so pitifully that Sally-Anne 's own fear of the brute before her was lost in sympathy for his wretched victim . |
| 6 | Supervisors have generally encouraged their students to read other theses , in preparation for their own efforts . |
| 7 | Then the gallery closes for three weeks in preparation for its major summer exhibition of new pictures by Anselm Kiefer . |
| 8 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 9 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 10 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 11 | First , stock levels were increased by nine point three million in preparation for our important winter sale . |
| 12 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 13 | Six weeks were spent in preparation for my new role . |
| 14 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
| 15 | Though Mrs Poole , gentle-natured and tolerant , made up in part for her disagreeable husband , most who visited the Castle Street house were attracted there by neither of the elder Pooles , but by their son , another Thomas . |
| 16 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
| 17 | Five years ' rigorous service with them no doubt accounted in part for his splendid physique . |
| 18 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 19 | More recently , northern folk have seized a greater share in responsibility for their own affairs ; they seek to take advantage of southern benefits , while at the same time maintaining their northern identity . |
| 20 | Branson , in fact , had no particular interest in gossip for its own sake , either public or private . |
| 21 | It would mean accepting that an assault could exist without any of the elements which comprise that term ; no one would , for example , have to be placed in fear for their bodily safety . |
| 22 | One can not , in other words , argue from the premise that people may disagree as to whether a person was in fact placed in fear for their bodily safety , to the conclusion that a decision-maker can have untrammelled power to decide whether such an apprehension is indeed a constituent part of the offence at all . |
| 23 | Estonia exchanged all the roubles in circulation for its new kroon in three days , at a rate of ten roubles per kroon . |
| 24 | The RAF Falcons parachute display team have been in practice for their next season by jumping from one of the largest aircraft in the world . |
| 25 | Queen Mary 's son , the Duke of York ( later King George VI ) , had several in succession for his personal use . |
| 26 | Even within the ruthless world of Irish republican terrorism , INLA members are regarded as ‘ crazies ’ , with more interest in violence for its own sake than in nationalist aims . |
| 27 | But he was not , unlike his colleague Captain Sturt , interested in geography for its own sake : his was not the thrill of covering the distance , but the desire to discover new species , regardless of their place on the map . |
| 28 | Lewis , on holiday in Jamaica , will return to training next month in readiness for his first defence , possibly against Alex Stewart . |
| 29 | It was these qualities which attracted Attlee , who knew that the task he had in mind for his new viceroy would require them all . |
| 30 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |