Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear however , is that when hearing appeals from the Secretary of State as to whether there has been a material change of use , the courts have consistently held that the question is one of fact and have declined to substitute any decision of their own for that of the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | As the report points out , resources must be made available to those who enter residential care with no resources of their own for those ’ little extras ’ . |
| 3 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 4 | In addition , each site has the facility to set up codes of its own for local use . |
| 5 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 6 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 7 | Measuring heritability comes into its own for those characters for which we have no knowledge of the genetics . |
| 8 | Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change . |
| 9 | It seems to me that for those , like myself , who want to include divine revelation with science in their total picture about the origin of life , the thought that it could have originated in one that supports their belief that God had a hand in these matters . |
| 10 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 11 | Having lived on my own for four years , I 've found ways of doing things that I like , on my own , without having to bother about anyone else , and now I 've met this man , it means shaking everything up . |
| 12 | He left me to wander about on my own for twenty minutes before returning to lock up . |
| 13 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 14 | Anyway , it 's been in my mind to step out on my own for some time now . |
| 15 | You must anticipate some damage around the home at this stage , especially if you leave your pet on its own for any length of time . |
| 16 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 17 | But it emerged that it was unlikely the child was on her own for more than a day , as neighbours volunteered to look after her . |
| 18 | On the part-time farm the woman often assumed a crucial role , having to cope on her own for most of the day . |
| 19 | Once again a big thank you to everyone involved in these projects and best of luck to you all for future fund raising activities . |
| 20 | But you see you the of Nick is , you see , he worked on his own for this twelve months . |
| 21 | One example is a deafened Link guest who in 1974 went home with a TL and practised with it on his own for 1¼ hours every evening after supper as a regular routine . |
| 22 | He looked up and his eyes were dark , and we were both embarrassed in a way that we would n't have been if we 'd been close together , but it was better that we should stand on our own for this . |
| 23 | sit the exams , on about twenty fifth of June we 'll be going on holiday , for a week , then shall go and see , well hope I should say , then I 'll probably go and see U Two , hopefully , then I 'll get to go on holiday on me own for two weeks |
| 24 | With me on me own for five hours . |
| 25 | After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off . |