Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 2 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 3 | Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault . |
| 4 | The regency delayed the full application of the new moral code on the aristocracy until the coming of peace , but by 1820 with the furore generated by Queen Caroline 's trial for adultery , there was clearly a new pressure for purity to which the aristocracy had to bend their knee . |
| 5 | A 12-year-old girl who was raped after visiting her attacker 's bedsit for coffee , behaved ‘ foolishly ’ commented one British judge in 1988 . |
| 6 | This year only 17 British beaches have gained the Blue Flag , the European Commission 's award for cleanliness , compared to 35 in 1991 . |
| 7 | This view was in large measure instantiated by the employer 's claim in an application for the Queen 's Award for Technology that use of the new valve ensured a ‘ startling 1% improvement in scrapping rate which could equate to [ a ] saving of £0.5 million per annum ’ . |
| 8 | National Awards , similar to the Queen 's Award for Industry , will encourage excellence in schools . |
| 9 | He 'd work on that and probably end up getting a Queen 's Award for Industry . |
| 10 | What Jane could never understand , looking back , was : if this was a successful example of British industry ( Queen 's Award for Export and all that ) , whatever could the unsuccessful ones be like ? |
| 11 | British Manufacture and Research Company is a subsidiary of the giant Swiss armaments firm Oerlikon ; it won the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement in 1981 on the prime minister 's recommendation . |
| 12 | Received the Queen 's Award for Export & Technology in 1990 and the Chronicle & Echo Business of the Year Award in 1991 . |
| 13 | Yet , although commercial competition is tougher , there are still weaving and spinning mills in Selkirk , one of which won the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 14 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 15 | Copyrights Company wins Queen 's Award for Export Achievement |
| 16 | The Copyrights Company , specialist in merchandise licensing , has won a Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 17 | It also gained The Queen 's Award for Export Achievement , making us one of only three winners of Queen 's Awards in two categories in 1993 . |
| 18 | Thus Dr David Evans summed up the reaction of Catalytic Systems Division to the double award in 1993 of the Queens Award for Environmental Achievement and the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement to CSD in the UK . |
| 19 | The company grew very quickly and in 1987 exports reached £7.8 million , more than 50 per cent of the total turnover and this was the year we won our first Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 20 | When won the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement in 1982 , represented the Company at a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace . |
| 21 | started manufacturing extruded products in 1964 , with the current Omega brand being launched in 1976. exports business grew rapidly through to 1988 when it won its first Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 22 | He also said how pleased he was to return to after his visit two years before when he presented the Company with the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 23 | He recalled his last visit to the Company 's Great Cornard factory two years ago when he presented with the Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 24 | The Queen 's Award for Export Achievement |
| 25 | About 85pc of the company 's product is sold overseas , a feat which won it the Queen 's Award for Export two years ago . |
| 26 | As far back as 1984 , the firm was awarded a Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 27 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 28 | ICI Katalco wins Queen 's Award for Export Achievement for ‘ Puraspec ’ used to purify liquids and gases . |
| 29 | The bulk are sold in the U S A and Oxford recently won a Queen 's Award for export achievement . |
| 30 | Brent London Borough Council , by which the social worker was employed and which was a party to the proceedings , took the initiative in seeking M. 's committal for contempt of court , but if it had not done so some other initiative by or on behalf of the court itself would have been necessary . |