Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Out of my mind for wanting a traitorous little witch like you . |
| 2 | This was all my fault for underestimating the route and our stamina , so I took her sack and helped her stagger down the snowfield and moraines to the path . |
| 3 | But the other two were my fault for changing the bike . |
| 4 | My condition for accepting the invitation to participate in a debate on IQ was that I be shown in advance any press release advertising the debate , for I feared being misrepresented . |
| 5 | My reason for calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is not its resemblance in some respect to other sensations called by the same name , but its mere resemblance to them . |
| 6 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
| 7 | In my statement to the House of 15 January , I explained th steps that I had taken to improve the first five environmentally sensitive areas designated in 1987 , my plans for reviewing this year those ESAs designated in 1988 , including any boundary adjustments , and my timetable for designating a further 12 areas this year and in 1993 . |
| 8 | So it is no wonder that the CEGB has responded by publishing an unprecedentedly large volume of material in support of its case for building a PWR at Sizewell . |
| 9 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 10 | added : ‘ This new campaign therefore draws employers ’ attention to their responsibility for assessing the potential problems , avoiding them where possible and making the workforce aware of how to approach manual handling tasks . |
| 11 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 12 | Local government , with its responsibility for sweeping the streets and emptying dustbins , had always essentially been a humdrum business . |
| 13 | Unlike the UK , where the Court on declaring an agreement " contrary to the public interest " then has little power to impose effective penalties against offending firms , the Commission has considerable powers of enforcement and can fine firms up to 10 per cent of their turnover for operating an anti- competitive practice . |
| 14 | They killed them and then used their blood for baking the Passover bread . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the Conservatives are still pressing on with their plans to stand in all 17 constituencies in Northern Ireland and to give the electorate the chance to accept or reject their programme for governing the country . |
| 16 | As called for by Mitterrand in January 1989 [ see p. 36404 ] , the government in the following month presented its programme for modernizing the criminal code which dated from the Napoleonic era . |
| 17 | If she did n't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat . |
| 18 | Public examination statistics have regularly been collected although difficulties of establishing comparability over time , and across different examination boards and subjects , have reduced their usefulness for assessing the performance of the education system as a whole . |
| 19 | The size of the " yes " vote surprised both the National Party ( NP ) government , which was seeking a renewal of its mandate for negotiating a political settlement with anti-apartheid organizations , and the Conservative Party ( CP ) which led the " no " campaign . |
| 20 | How could she separate the reality of John Latimer 's war from the thin gruel of romantic rubbish with which she had always associated these lighthearted , devil-may-care young pilots , with their positively foolhardy absence of nerves and their propensity for turning the Battle of Britain into something resembling a schoolboy jape ! |
| 21 | One way of viewing the significance of psychoanalytic theories is to conceptualize the unconscious as productive of irrationalities and resistances which simultaneously organize and subvert the operations of conscious subjectivity ( Craib , 1989 ) ; hence their relevance for transforming the rationalism which underlies the pedagogies of both multiculturalist and antiracist educational practices . |
| 22 | Mrs Blanchard 's already told Mr Coombs of her plan for reducing the budget deficit . |
| 23 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 24 | That so much effort has gone into getting general practitioners on board is a tribute to the widely held view within social services that general practitioners are not central to community care , but their capacity for throwing a spanner in the works is considerable . |
| 25 | Balcon saw the potential for bringing into mainstream cinema the observational powers of the documentarists , and their capacity for evoking a quieter form of heroism than that displayed in Ships with Wings . |
| 26 | Everyone here is a close friend or relative and we all have personal knowledge of Annabelle 's unique qualities , her kindness , her gift for creating a happy atmosphere and her loyal friendship . |
| 27 | Miss Knox 's solicitor Rosemary Nelson praised her courage for taking the case and said she hoped who would offer encouragement to other women in a similar position . |
| 28 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 29 | Firstly , the development of the Anglo-American civil aviation relationship in the troubled context of the 1980s and early 1990s will be explored and some assessment of its importance for determining the character of the world 's overall aviation system will be given . |
| 30 | The partial success of Cuba 's policy is confirmed by the fact that as late as January 1961 Washington was aware that its scope for attacking the Castro regime through the OAS was still limited , and a majority for sanctions not yet assured . |