Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoughts of Wendell Harvey , of possible passers-by , of wedding dates , receded from his mind as his desire for this lovely , passionate girl matched hers for him . |
| 2 | Lotus 1-2-3 release 3.4 , on the other hand , promises a more graphical outlook than its predecessors for the DOS user , whilst maintaining the power features that folk have come to expect . |
| 3 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 4 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |
| 5 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 6 | In or out of prison I will relentlessly fight my case until my conviction for the murder of Reginald Stevens is finally quashed . |
| 7 | Could we not look forward to an era where our syllabuses for instruction in schools were as carefully drafted , as well produced and as widely read and discussed as our development plans for education ? |
| 8 | A deeper allegiance than his love for the children of the Anglo-Irish landlord he had worked for since he was a homeless lad knocking at the kitchen door to ask for a cup of tea and an odd job . |
| 9 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 10 | Dedicated football fan that he is , Anderson attempts to give advice to Crisp and Broadbent in a long and excited utterance , but this is only a part of the whole picture because his enthusiasm for the topic , implicated by the length of the turn , conflicts with the hesitancy he also displays . |
| 11 | This can sometimes be done very successfully by helping her to channel her energy and abilities into some local club or voluntary service organisation where her talent for management can be put to good use , as well as meeting her own need to be a little bit of a ‘ bossy-boots ’ . |
| 12 | Moreover , they will have to depend on a national institutional environment if their strategy for the organization is to succeed . |
| 13 | You may substitute another policy if its cover for watersports and sailing is equivalent or better . |
| 14 | As Sikes , Measor and Woods have found in their life history interviews with secondary teachers , many teachers regard examinations not as a constraint but as a resource for motivating pupils at an age when their enthusiasm for school might otherwise be waning . |
| 15 | I am delighted to see the hon. Gentleman in the Chamber ; he should be on the Opposition Front Bench as their spokesman for sport , as my shadow is not here . |
| 16 | Now that herbal usage has been revived so much in other disciplines , the definition has expanded to include plants usually grown nowadays for garden ornament , such as the Christmas rose ( Helleborus niger ) , marigold ( Calendula ) and the Florentine iris ; plants which were regarded as weeds , such as tansy , comfrey , yarrow and herb robert , but are being treated with respect as their usefulness for all sorts of reasons is realized again ; and plants which supply dyes , cosmetics , insect repellents and fragrances . |
| 17 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 18 | Taxed with this incident as his reason for contriving Shatov 's murder , Verkhovensky replies : ‘ For that reason , and for something else , too . |
| 19 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 20 | A pensioner was told he could n't watch TV while his cheque for a new licence was being cleared . |
| 21 | Less than a mile away , locked in all-day talks with Mr Major , Mr Yeltsin was promised an official trip to Moscow by the Prime Minister after his plea for a royal visit was turned down . |
| 22 | We have seen how our feeling that a particular stretch of language in some way hangs together , or has unity , ( that it is , in other words , discourse ) , can not be accounted for in the same way as our feeling for the acceptability of a sentence . |
| 23 | On appeal , the Authority stated that the dismissal was not one of redundancy as their requirements for draughtsmen had not ceased , they had only ceased at Orfordness . |
| 24 | The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless . |
| 25 | However , in those situations where professionals and paraprofessionals are working alongside each other , the team approach seems to be gaining wider acceptance as its potential for making optimum use of available personnel resources is being recognized . |
| 26 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |