Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 2 | That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood — the time when he was his own ideal . |
| 3 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 4 | We hope that MP 's will express forcibly their concern for the impact these changes would have on their constituents , and that they will persuade the Lord chancellor to think again . ’ |
| 5 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 6 | Hence my preference for the term ‘ place ’ , which has not been promoted by any of the other writers . |
| 7 | He stood , at least , for honesty in sexual dealings : hence his preference for the prostitute over the grisette . |
| 8 | The visit to Scotland , which reinforced both his affection for the beauty of that country and his interest in her history ( for he was always attached to small countries or communities which had clung to their traditions ) had produced the poem ‘ Rannoch , by Glencoe ’ , published in the New English Weekly , 17 October 1935 . |
| 9 | This approach , putting the music first , explains why Jarvefelt 's career blossomed at Santa Fe and in Sydney and also his appeal for the New York Met : operatic naturalism and story-telling are still the predominant aesthetic in all these places . |
| 10 | Hence our support for the Bill last year . |
| 11 | Hence our preference for the terms ‘ peace ’ and ‘ peaceful ’ which embody all the advantages of markedness while at the same time better express our general position in this particular instance . |
| 12 | How magically her love for the boys had developed into , contrasted with , reinforced her different but equally powerful passion for her daughters : how strange but inevitable had appeared the five-pointed constellation of their heroic family . |
| 13 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 14 | She 'd been so preoccupied with first the tragedy , and then her concern for the twins ' welfare , that she had n't given any thought to the future . |
| 15 | Much more serious , Nijinsky 's summer holiday and then his preparation for the St Leger had both been painfully interrupted by an attack of ringworm , which cost him almost all his hair . |
| 16 | He placed a strong emphasis on welfare measures , expressing again his concern for the victims of the Depression . |
| 17 | Poole was again his choice for the male role , with another of the young South African dancers , Patricia Miller , as Beauty . |
| 18 | In a society which took seriously its responsibility for the economic and social welfare of all its members this might not happen . |
| 19 | They will take very seriously their responsibility for the protection of crowned heads and deport all known anarchists , as well as people they consider suspect . |