Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 2 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 3 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 4 | You said you wanted to get hold of him for another |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry miss , but the station has been trying to get hold of you for several days , ’ he interrupted . |
| 6 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 7 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 8 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 9 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ The Holy Spirit have charge of him for all our sakes ! ’ |
| 11 | The Minister for the Environment and Countryside is no longer here — I make no criticism of him for that — but I listened to his opening remarks , and I know that he will speak to colleagues in Brussels . |
| 12 | With the vision of Robert Emmet and the crucifix in mind , could the PIRA not stop to ask how they — or any of the rest of us for that matter — may redeem the bitter legacy of centuries by adding to it ? |
| 13 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 14 | Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day . |
| 15 | In the end , this passion of his for generating paper got to be so ridiculous that we had T-shirts made up , with the DEA logo and OPERATION MAKAKOPI in big letters across the chest . |
| 16 | He appeals from the order of the North Avon Magistrates ' Family Proceedings Court on 23 December 1991 when they made a secure accommodation order in respect of him for three months . |
| 17 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 18 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 19 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 21 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 22 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 23 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |
| 24 | If so , please take note of it for future reference . |
| 25 | I would n't be without this for the world and use it , or parts of it for different jobs all the time . |
| 26 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 27 | In 1988 he moved again , this time to Lotus , but he had to be content with watching the McLaren duo of Alain Prost and fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna in front of him for most of the season . |
| 28 | Malham , though , has also been a favourite spot of mine for little walks , the sort of walks that only take an afternoon . |