Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] its [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until August 1976 that the then Secretary of State declared his intention of accepting its argument for a single , national , validating agency . |
| 2 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 3 | Only by refusing all compromise and inviting martyrdom could the NCF hope to sabotage the workings of the Military Service Act and shock the public into reconsidering its support for the war . |
| 4 | This subjective impression among left-wing intellectuals such as Aragon and Nizan that the Soviet experiment would in some way resolve the contradictions of the writer/intellectual ensnared in the alienating social relations of capitalism is a key factor in explaining its attractiveness for dissident French writers in the 1930s . |
| 5 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 6 | The level of library material is an important feature in determining its suitability for particular audiences ( for instance , undergraduates , postgraduates or researchers in an academic library , or the various user groups served by public libraries ) . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal erred in substituting its judgment for that of ACAS . ’ |
| 8 | It would be very helpful to the Regional Council in preparing its case for this inquiry to have a copy of the proofs of evidence presented by your officials at the inquiry relating to the Oxford United proposals . |
| 9 | Personal disinterest in a programme content will help your objectivity in assessing its potential for your public relations purposes . |
| 10 | And with the pub in particular some of the loudest siren voices proclaiming ‘ heritage ’ are often the very ones most intent on debasing its meaning for us . |
| 11 | The University is committed to continuing its support for Oxford 's great historical collections ( including the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean , Pitt Rivers , and University Museums ) , which form a national , and international , resource for scholarship , and to maintaining acquisitions in its central research libraries ( Bodleian , Ashmolean and Taylorian ) at a level commensurate with their responsibilities to the international scholarly community . |
| 12 | They tell such horror stories as GE putting up sales teams from competing suppliers in the same hotel and then moving from room to room asking each supplier to think about reducing its bid for the contract . |
| 13 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 14 | The symbol discloses , not by presenting its meaning for inspection , but by drawing us into its own movement , thereby carrying us out of ourselves . |