Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Shearer in this form , it will be a brave man who bets against Rovers in either this competition or their bid for the Premier League title . |
| 2 | Indeed , she could not even remember the day in question or her request for a baby to play with . |
| 3 | A restrictive covenant is essentially a contract between two landowners whereby one agrees to restrict the use of his or her land for the benefit of the other . |
| 4 | In this case , take the child some distance away and then let him or her watch for a while until the fear recedes , which it usually does within about ten minutes . |
| 5 | A novelist adapting his or her work for the screen must also adapt to the different status of the writer in the production process . |
| 6 | In a hotel a guest may indeed be the ‘ occupier ’ of his or her bedroom for the purposes of the Act . |
| 7 | The Commissioner is appointed by the Prime Minister on terms determined by the Prime Minister , and reports to the Prime Minister who has the power to censor his or her report for the purposes of publication . |
| 8 | If a horse is frightened , particularly a foal , it will rush back to the other horses or its dam for the psychological comfort of contact . |
| 9 | tongued and grooved or , or something pine for the kitchen wall , do it , pay it , forget it right , so , I mean I do n't know what wood I mean we 'd have , we 'd have to see it , but I said to him look I said something 's got ta be done , so I said to him shall we get Gary or somebody similar to do some Artexing in here and he said well with the coal fire and all that he said it 'll , it 'll get dirty |
| 10 | I hope that my enthusiasm for the subject material in the above discussion will not be mistaken for any wholehearted support of some sort of postmodern aesthetics or politics . |
| 11 | The feeling of comradeship now in Liverpool , the feeling that everyone was in it together and helping each other , was something that her mother would never understand , she felt , nor her grief for the baby . |
| 12 | There was clearly a danger for the Labour Party that its candidate for the premiership would not ‘ emerge ’ as a potential leader ; this was reinforced by the fact that the Labour manifesto , Let us Face the Future , did not even mention his name . |
| 13 | Management has identified that its agenda for the future regarding its Staff is , firstly , an intention to introduce Performance Related Pay for all Staff by 1995 . |
| 14 | And in case anyone thought that that was the end of the bad news , the company says it expects that its revenue for the first quarter to September 27 will be below analysts ' expectations and that it will incur a loss for the quarter . |
| 15 | For the next couple of weeks , Brenda had phone calls from various people claiming the dogs belonged to the Sharmas and was even visited by the local police , although they were quite happy that her request for a description was reasonable . |
| 16 | And Diana was told that her request for a divorce was almost the same as an abdication . |
| 17 | And her diary reveals claims that her request for a purely platonic friendship had been loosely interpreted by Gerald . |
| 18 | Denise Harriman , the senator 's aide , uttered a barely audible sigh which I translated as an expression of relief that her responsibility for the twins was ending . |
| 19 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 20 | Had n't she realised that her infatuation for the man was incestuous ? |
| 21 | Always an independent spirit , Rita nevertheless acknowledges certain strong influences in her movement career — Edith , Molly , Rita Horton , and in Coburg , Jutta Holler-von der Trenck ; she believes that her feeling for the importance of expression in movement , and her interest in the choreographing of taped music derive from her contact with Christa Haring , whose classes in Contemporary Dramatic Dance she attended . |
| 22 | EUROPEAN Community leaders will move quickly this week to reassure the Soviet Union that their support for the future ‘ unity ’ of the German people at the weekend EC summit is conditional on the maintenance of peace and stability in Europe . |
| 23 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 24 | Already there are suggestions from Australia that the Raiders ' post-Grand Final party lasted all the way to Manchester , in other words that their preparation for the game was not as dedicated as it might have been . |
| 25 | As for the other four schools , the absence of a clear commitment does not mean that proposals were exclusively concentrated on a narrow aspect of the curriculum , but rather that their concern for the whole curriculum was either implied or assumed . |
| 26 | It may be , indeed , that their solicitude for the boy was slightly harmful , for the Prince was easily distracted from his studies to the extent that his tutor , Augustin Filon , later remarked : ‘ It needed the effects of the revolution and exile in order to harden the Prince 's will to work . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Bomber ’ Smith ( who joined the Authority 's staff from the Ministry in September 1949 ) had his own doubts about the engineers , feeling that their desire for a good technical liaison with the manufacturers , and particularly the boiler-makers , tended to paralyse the BEA 's capacity to exercise commercial pressure on them . |
| 28 | But it was evident that an argument was taking place between the adults , possibly as to whether their need of a refrigerator was greater than their desire for a mammoth room heater . |
| 29 | The dangers are no less apparent in the practical domain : they are attested in countless classrooms where teaching is confined to the transmission of textbook material rather than its exploitation for the negotiation of appropriate activities for learning . |
| 30 | Gen Noriega ingratiated himself by offering his services to a White House bent on making the Sandinistas ‘ cry uncle ’ , although his help for the contra cause was limited . |