Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonadab Oaks might be as lean and sinewy as ever , with muscles as firm and trim as in his youth , but age had taken its toll and he was not the equal of his son , who now faced him so challengingly , ‘ There 's nowt for me ti apologise for , ’ he said firmly . |
| 2 | Probably an amalgam of two mass-circulation papers The New York Herald and The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer ( edited by James Gordon Bennett and Colonel Watson Webb respectively ) : both papers attacked CD in the most scurrilous fashion after his speeches calling for an International Copyright Agreement . |
| 3 | Unemployment had then just begun its big rise but there were still jobs going — I was just being silly about which ones to apply for . |
| 4 | The rule enunciated earlier about which variables to control for is quite general and extends to any number of variables . |
| 5 | ( 1986 ) and Morgan Klein ( 1985 ) describe convincingly the conflict which young people in residential care experience between longing for their parents to provide for them and the growing realisation that this may only ever be partial . |
| 6 | It was significant that when the International Revolutionary Socialists had held their conference of April 1916 in Switzerland , barely any of the French Socialists voiced support for their resolutions calling for an immediate peace . |
| 7 | Details are given below under Teaching , but it is worth mentioning here the training course in French law at the University of Aix/ Marseille , for which scholarships have for some years been offered by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy , 22 Wilton Crescent , London SW1 . |
| 8 | As one lecturer put it , ‘ I do n't want one of my students working for a first to have the achievement marred because it was ‘ only a 1.2 ’ . ’ |
| 9 | It 's a very good paper , and I approve of its line , which is important : so many of my friends work for papers they ca n't stand . ’ |
| 10 | The first was of my parents appealing for news of me and — of course — for my release . |
| 11 | Not a single one of my colleagues doubted for a moment what she said . |
| 12 | I was frequently called out of my classes to interpret for him , and it began to be assumed that he would never talk at all . |
| 13 | Gilbey , then 21 , became a member of her social circle and many of their friends assumed for a while that they were a couple . |
| 14 | The rest of the major clubs in Scotland , meanwhile , have given unselfishly of their players to compensate for the mass withdrawal from Ibrox . |
| 15 | That is 20 per cent of their customers account for 80 per cent of their debts . |
| 16 | It 's very hard to spend months in the archives , reading the papers of the people who spent so much of their lives fighting for this kind of thing , and not I think be rather affected by dedication and by the evidence that they amassed with such enormous difficulty , and by the way they kept coming back and fighting for it over and over again , and the free market argument by comparison lacks that kind of humanity I think . |
| 17 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 18 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 19 | It was in this spirit that Bernard gave Jane , at eighteen , a professional 's Hasselblad camera and appointed her company photographer , the first of their children to work for the company . |
| 20 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |
| 21 | Moreover , to achieve recognition within the legalistic and decentralised bargaining system in the United States a union needs to win a majority vote in a ballot , and although perhaps 40 or 45 per cent of the employees in a given enterprise may desire union services the union fails to achieve recognition because of the unwillingness of the majority of their colleagues to opt for unionisation . |
| 22 | In 1980 Irish constituencies had their boundaries and the number of their seats reviewed for the first lime by independent Constituency Commissioners . |
| 23 | Depositors in overnight money-market accounts — which total around $70 billion — have seen 80% of their assets frozen for 18 months . |
| 24 | Mick Marven , Colchester and district representative of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society , said there was a danger of patients being forced into making ‘ uneducated choices ’ of which medicines to pay for . |
| 25 | The USRC therefore made only a limited impact ; most of its members sat for industrial seats and its propaganda was concentrated there for their benefit . |
| 26 | In November , 1992 , the arts and libraries committee decided to allocate £2,500 of its arts budget for 1993/94 to the creation of the fund . |
| 27 | The Foreign Office said it was still determined Libya should hand over two of its countrymen wanted for the attack . |
| 28 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 29 | Few of her governesses stayed for long and , with the exception of two terms at a French convent near Tours , she had little formal education . |
| 30 | Sir : I am researching the financial workings of the shareware market and would be grateful for the use of you columns to appeal for information . |