Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of this was to give a much-needed niche for future leaders of the Third World in the years after 1945 to prepare themselves for their daunting task . |
| 2 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 3 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 4 | I ran like mad to open it for her . |
| 5 | This was precisely the approach Pearce adopted when he was asked by the Conservative Government to become chairman of British Aerospace in 1980 to prepare it for privatisation . |
| 6 | Wilkinson added : ‘ It brings football into disrepute and washing dirty linen in public does nothing for the game . |
| 7 | Wilkinson added : ‘ It brings football into disrepute and washing dirty linen in public does nothing for the game . |
| 8 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 9 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 10 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 11 | It was also an implicit protest at what many in Co-operation had seen as an exercise which at best fundamentally misconceived the Movement 's nature and aspirations , at worst misused them for the purposes of a political performance . |
| 12 | Part-time solicitors , accountants or doctors will rarely become partners in their firms ; they are at best marking time , at worst barring themselves for ever from the higher reaches of their professions . |
| 13 | By any reckoning , the path into the future is exceptionally perilous and uncertain for this generation , and political sociology , I fear , can at best illumine it for only a relatively short distance ahead . |
| 14 | Back To The Future star Michael J Fox cut the price of his house in Bel Air by half to sell it for £1.3 million . |