Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most frightening aspects of all intelligence agencies is the manner in which they create a totally false brand of patriotism in order to further a particular cause on the spurious grounds that only they understand what needs to be done and should not be asked to account or explain for any of their actions which must remain secret for all time . |
| 2 | Dr. Thackeray had never seen or prescribed for any of the patients at the asylum . |
| 3 | I now look forward to resuming my career wholly without blame or blemish for any of the difficulties that arose at Magnet . ’ |
| 4 | But now I draw outside , I think that goes for both of us — we draw outside and then paint indoors . |
| 5 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 6 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 7 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 8 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 10 | Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time . |
| 11 | Japan did not , moreover , have a primate city that accounted for most of the urban population . |
| 12 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 13 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 14 | He was Charles Longuet Higgins , who was born in Turvey Abbey in 1806 and lived for most of his life in the family home . |
| 15 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 16 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 17 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 18 | Go and look for some of your friends , the Stewpot fan club , and ask them to play for your precious team . |
| 19 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 20 | Mandeville walked to the door and called for some of Bowyer 's soldiers . |
| 21 | The nature of pollution control work draws attention to these issues because it involves a substantial degree of discretion at field level among staff who are physically dispersed and isolated for most of the day while tending a complex and unpredictable environment . |
| 22 | It has also shown that treatment of children with cystic fibrosis has produced adults who are fit , active , and integrated for most of their lives . |
| 23 | It was his general attitude of irresponsibility , selfishness , and dislike for any of the functions of kingship other than easy popularity and personal privilege . |
| 24 | They had woken at eight , and he had made tea and toast for both of them . |
| 25 | He shuffled past well ordered , dusted shelves and racks , and past the little office where his father had sat and schemed for most of his life . |
| 26 | Much inter-bank lending in Eurocurrency takes place and accounts for much of the business . |
| 27 | This effort to unite what can not be united lies at the heart of the haiku and accounts for some of its tense , sad loveliness . |
| 28 | Fish featured largely in our diet during our stay , and being a keen fisherman I longed to get offshore and try for some of the bigger game fish . |
| 29 | It 's been started with a local council grant , and caters for some of an estimated one thousand people who would otherwise have to eat from rubbish bins … or simply go hungry . |
| 30 | To write about emotions may mean that at times a piece of writing in social science reads more like a novel , indeed , may sometimes be a novel — Freud called Moses and Monotheism a novel , and apologized for some of his case-histories reading like novels rather than scientific treatises . |