Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 2 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 3 | Probably Ireland 's best known festive event by far — and Guinness has been its longest and strongest ally — is the Rose of Tralee Festival where every year contestants from throughout the world come to Kerry to compete for the coveted Rose of Tralee title . |
| 4 | When God instructs his people Israel to care for the poor , the appeal is invariably on the basis of what he has done for them . |
| 5 | In all his self-justifications , Joyce talked of having come to Germany to fight for the new order against Bolshevism and Jewry . |
| 6 | When solving the up- or down-problem at node k in preceding sections , we first modified the original tableau of LPk to allow for the new or changed , upper or lower bound . |
| 7 | For Belgium to qualify for the European Communities ' final stage of economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] , the budget deficit would have to be reduced from the current 6.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to 3 per cent by 1996 . |
| 8 | The Foreign Affairs Ministers met on Nov. 24 and 25 in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the planned summit , but reports said that the session was overshadowed by the absence of Qatar , marking its continuing displeasure with Saudi Arabia following a border incident in October [ see p. 39165 ] . |
| 9 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 10 | Colonel Ford , worried that he was losing his veteran Captain of skirmishers , had begged d'Alembord to stay for the impending campaign and implicit in the Colonel 's plea was a promise that d'Alembord would receive the next vacant majority in the battalion . |