Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 2 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 3 | And yet what does it mean to understand the formulations of someone for whom , on the face of it , final understanding is impossible , or never to be fully achieved ? |
| 4 | There 's no mention of anything for her . ’ |
| 5 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 6 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 7 | The study of something for its own sake , for the sake of knowing , understanding , grasping it and for nothing else , is an essential characteristic of education , lower or higher , though more obviously of higher education . |
| 8 | If we can manage to get the tree-house finished by tomorrow , I 'll show you a way we can give him a piece of it for Father 's Day . ’ |
| 9 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 10 | I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves . |
| 11 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 12 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 13 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 14 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody has seen hide nor hair of you for at least a month , ’ he was saying . |
| 16 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 17 | Until now , the role of the brain regions associated with Alzheimer 's disease has been little understood ; they are part of what for years was called the ‘ substantia innominata ’ ( region without a name ) because it had no known purpose . |
| 18 | Mr Devall said if the nitrate removal plant house was built it would take water from the Stour , remove nitrates from part of it for drinking water in Essex and return the rest into the Stour . |
| 19 | The works , which have just started , will cost £191,000 and involve making the early-Victorian listed building wind and water tight and restoring part of it for use by the Brechin Railway Preservation Society . |
| 20 | And you wo n't be part of it for much longer . |
| 21 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 22 | Now no level headed business man in his right senses would recommend that they dispose of any part of it for a temporary , permanent gipsy site or whatever you like to call it . |
| 23 | I had the advantage of her for that much unobtrusive study . |
| 24 | It 's part and parcel of it for a woman , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 25 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 26 | But the needs of animals , what we see to be , in their interest' , can not be guided by their own views of themselves for ( lacking language ) they can not have any . |
| 27 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 28 | Moyer spoke in support of it for almost an hour . |
| 29 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 30 | Equally , the current trend of research councils to favour formal training , an important component of which for history will be computing and methodology , should bring with it a fuller measure of recognition of the skills acquired by the computer-using historian ( Denley 1990 ; Kruse 1991 ) . |