Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my enthusiasm for authenticism in general and Norrington 's performances in particular should not lead readers to assume that the moment his latest CD goes in the tray I 'm all set to start spraying stars around like confetti . |
| 2 | Without my capacity for perseverance in such work as mere dictionary reading , I should despair . |
| 3 | Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril . |
| 4 | My aims for Britain in the community can be simply stated . |
| 5 | Leaders of the Yatama Indian rebel alliance ( including Brooklyn Rivera , Wycliffe Diego and Steadman Fagoth Müller ) at the end of September signed a document confirming that they renounced the armed struggle ( although their fighters remained in the mountains ) and requested safe conduct to Nicaragua , at the same time announcing the formation of a new political party , and their support for Chamorro in the presidential elections . |
| 6 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 7 | AS THE general election campaign gets under way , leading Cleveland councillors marked yesterday 's Vote for Democracy Day by pledging their support for democracy in South Africa . |
| 8 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 9 | CRYSTAL PALACE 'S struggling squad did their bit for Children in Need yesterday — but today charity must not begin at home . |
| 10 | On the contrary , their fight for survival in post-war years was even grimmer than the trenches — and this is most eloquent indeed , for tens of thousands died terribly within and around those rat-infested mud-holes of Hell and Damnation . |
| 11 | Stepps played with great courage throughout but they appear to have lost their fight for survival in the division . |
| 12 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
| 13 | The Chartists would liberate the Irish as a byproduct of their struggle for power in British . |
| 14 | In addition quite a few manufacturers of household goods are willing to lend their products for use in photographs for non-competing items in return for suitable credits . |
| 15 | When , for example , Matsushita decided to build an export-oriented air-conditioner plant in Malaysia , it also had to adjust its plans for investment in Mexico and its export policies from Japan . |
| 16 | Faced with such evidence , Marc Thompson — an IMS research fellow who worked on both studies — believes that the Department of Health should tone down its enthusiasm for PRP in the health service , despite the Citizens ' Charter pledge to introduce merit pay into the public sector . |
| 17 | Detectives hunting the killer who dumped a woman 's body in the loft of a guest house have renewed their calls for help in tracing the victim 's last movements . |
| 18 | Detectives hunting the killer who dumped a woman 's body in the loft of a guest house have renewed their calls for help in tracing the victim 's last movements . |
| 19 | New Scientist said that the government was planning to double its money for space in the next few years . |
| 20 | Here in California , this sow is doing her part for erosion in the West Coast watershed . |
| 21 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 22 | It was hard for him to catch the words , because the flowerbeds had just been hoed and the birds were raucous in their search for food in the fresh-turned soil . |
| 23 | Furthermore , tradition dictates that married women should be dependent on their husbands for income in old age , his being the ‘ serious ’ earnings . |
| 24 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |
| 25 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 26 | London 's Kingston Crown Court jailed an American and her lover for deception in December 1986 . |
| 27 | Predictably the Koreans were unable to sustain their bid for glory in the face of the New Zealand machine fielding sevens stalwarts Dallas Seymour , Pat Lam and Scott Pierce and featuring quicksilver North Harbour winger Glen Osborne . |
| 28 | In March 1988 North West Exploration found encouraging prospects in its search for gold in Co . |
| 29 | Apted also differentiates browsing habits according to the different disciplines and points to its prominence for scholars in the humanities . |
| 30 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |