Example sentences of "[be] their [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been their justification for apartheid . |
| 2 | Although invited by the Liberal Party to be their candidate for the Clapham Division 20 years ago or more , [ he ] was unable to accept the invitation , and contented himself with speaking for the Liberal or Progressive candidate at every available opportunity in many elections . |
| 3 | While Payton has struck up a sound understanding with Frank McAvennie , Celtic 's greatest asset today may be their desire for victory . |
| 4 | If his creditors allowed him to be , he would be their vassal for life . |
| 5 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 6 | If they were n't , and I 'm told that it was Babes In Toyland who were full of doughnuts , then what 's their excuse for sounding like this ? |
| 7 | Plainsong : that 's their codename for the whole operation . ’ |
| 8 | Once he 's gone he 's their explanation for the missing money and all they will ever be accused of is leniency in not prosecuting . ’ |
| 9 | However , a consequence of this autonomy is their responsibility for seeing that housework gets done . |
| 10 | A person or persons ( draughtsman , craftsman , or apprentice ) who worked at Leicester could have worked in the west country , but nowhere in the Leicester mosaics is their evidence for work so unaccomplished as that of the Gloucester pavement . |
| 11 | Most puppies have a rather limited attention span , such is their enthusiasm for life . |
| 12 | And penitence is buying green ; buying green is their prayer for grace . |
| 13 | One of the more interesting aspects of the use of computers in education is their potential for involving children in problem-solving activities . |
| 14 | Then Messrs. Gwynne 's proposal for equalizing the strain on each inidividual rope by means of connected Hydraulic Rams is most satisfactory , as also is their suggestion for actuating the lift up gates by means of Hydraulic pressure utilising the engine for pumping up the accumulator . |
| 15 | The ring on your finger is their dinner for a year . |
| 16 | So too is materialism which is their reason for positing it as a rightful successor to idealism as the method for understanding history . |
| 17 | What is their reason for not complying with these regulations ? |
| 18 | What is their programme for moving ? — and so on . |
| 19 | The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour , the more we love them , for we see how great is their care for their young . |
| 20 | One physiological process of the leather corals which must be considered when designing an aquarium for them is their mechanism for excreting waste products . |
| 21 | So this is their justification for bringing in the childhood . |
| 22 | Clearly , the more money people wish to hold in relation to their spending , the greater is their demand for money and the lower is velocity . |
| 23 | Although Father and Helmut did business with one another , it was their work for refugees that brought them close and endeared Helmut to Mother and Father . |
| 24 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
| 25 | To some extent the very brilliance of the court life led by the sovereigns and its impact on public opinion was their undoing for the fête impériale is indelibly associated with them . |
| 26 | ( H.B. was their nickname for Miss Hardbroom . ) |
| 27 | This , then , was their home for as long as the war lasted . |
| 28 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 29 | Livings was their architect for the iron foundry at Stockton , which John now had ideas of enlarging . |
| 30 | Because at the end of the day , if something does happen you 've got all this filling in to do and you might well turn around and say It was n't my fault , you could turn around and say it was their fault for coming by . |