Example sentences of "of for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days of Soviet rule it was not unheard of for remote journals to attack Izvestiia and the Central Committee . |
| 2 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 3 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 4 | The best method the Mafia can think of for distributing its heroin in America is a chain of pizza parlours , where the sons of top mafiosi are frequently offered jobs as a favour to their fathers . |
| 5 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 6 | There is also the name Angel Kirvor , which was the first pseudonym we thought of for our combined poems . |
| 7 | And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china . |
| 8 | The streets are full of For Sale notices , although close inspection shows they refer to repossessions in which Southend is the third worst case in the country outside London ; the local paper carries two pages of bankruptcy notices a week . |
| 9 | Our laws will give all the guarantees one can think of for any democratic country . ’ |
| 10 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 11 | No one in the CRA delegation understood that it was unheard of for a non-Unionist procession to enter that area . |
| 12 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 13 | Riding 's governing bodies should be paying more attention to clothing as ‘ equipment ’ important for safety and performance instead of for appearance 's sake . |
| 14 | We had not seen a town to speak of for almost two weeks . |
| 15 | … to ensure that redundancy is not used as a pretext for getting rid of employees which some manager wishes to get rid of for some quite other reasons , eg … by reason of personal dislike . |
| 16 | When cooking , many people check the contents of for example bottles and packages by smelling or tasting them . |
| 17 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 18 | This type of machine was used for the digital sound recordings made by the Nippon Columbia company in 1972 , instead of for video . |
| 19 | Perhaps you can wrap fish and chips in computer output , but that , it seems to me , is the only asset I can think of for ordinary domestic life . |
| 20 | It 's the only reason I can think of for her to get so much wrong . |
| 21 | It is almost unheard of for anything to be marked with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 22 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 23 | There are many excellent books on general fishkeeping , and specialist books on cichlids , available nowadays , and if expense is a problem these can be ordered from the local public library , either free of charge of for a very small fee . |
| 24 | Therefore , the BFS is efficient if we can find a non-negative solution of for all j . |
| 25 | The issue is currently germane with the publication , last week of For Women , a new magazine which , as everybody knows , shows pictures of naked men . |
| 26 | It was the beginning of a new family we have dreamed of for years , ’ added the actress whose Californian mansion is also home to 40 pets including racoons . |
| 27 | Their haul of 90 complete outfits included suits , leather jackets and shoes , said Roy Kent of For Him magazine , which is organising the men 's section of the show beginning at Earl 's Court tomorrow . |
| 28 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |
| 29 | According to Institute statistics , it was almost unheard of for a member to go into an IVA until two years ago , but in 1991 23 IVAs were reported , last year the number soared to 56 , and by half way through January , the 1993 total was already into double figures . |
| 30 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |