Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
2 | It is hardly correct , however , to suggest on the basis of this comment that it was partly from a sense of humility , and partly from a reluctance to accept all the credit for himself , that Gandhi acknowledged his indebtedness to Tolstoy 's ideas . |
3 | In fact , the author notes with great interest a proposal in the latest Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill to create another Commissioner-the Commissioner for Protection Against Unlawful Industrial Action-modelled along the lines of the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members . |
4 | Biographers , notably A J Lubin , have suggested motives which may have prompted him to choose such a woman for a partner . |
5 | He would have been sorry — a natural feeling for a humane man — to destroy such a creature for no reason ’ ( 1963 : 240 ) . |
6 | When this is the case , a trap is to mistake such an event for the completion of the entire change effort ; instead , it represents only the beginning of the change-management process . |
7 | The words of the friend ‘ I 'm all right now ’ , seem to inspire such a release for Gunn , weighed down with his grief . |
8 | I 'd be happy to suggest such a place for Flora . ’ |
9 | ( What hand or eye , we may well ask , could afford to gestate such a thing for the six to nine months Shakespeare usually took to write a play ? |
10 | She tried to imagine such a life for herself , but could not . |
11 | It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent . |
12 | Let us consider the cropping on a small mixed farm with cattle , sheep , and poultry On which you are aiming , as far as possible , to grow all the fodder for your animals ( your main source of income ) and to feed your family . |
13 | In both cases the practical effect of the monopolies is in most cases to reserve all the work for solicitors ( and in the case of property transfer , licensed conveyancers ) . |
14 | Now older and perhaps a little more clay-wise , with a win already this year over Monica Seles at Key Biscayne and with her father Stefano as her coach once again , she may well be settled enough to go all the way for the first time , which of course , would be a remarkable achievement for a 16 year old . |
15 | In particular , we would want to use such a system for connecting the specialist gardens and the nursery to the plant record system . |
16 | One could identify the political and social attitudes or perspectives , and the social structures or historical events which would have to precede such an incident for it to occur at all . |
17 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
18 | And , ’ she warned , ‘ it 's no good trying to cast all the blame for what happened on me . ’ |
19 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
20 | Well , I also believe , as I said earlier , that we should have p MPs who represent the G M B about MPs who represent theirselves , for what they can get out of it , what kudos they can get out of it , but leave the activists to do all the work for 'em , to do all the work . |
21 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
22 | It is therefore incorrect to attribute all the credit for the promise of full employment to the conversion of men of power and influence to Keynesian ideas . |
23 | Have I to hang all the garrison for letting you slip through ? ’ |
24 | The IBA hoped to raise half the capital for a new company from Midlands money , with ATV providing the rest . |
25 | He claims he had to develop such a style for his latest role , as the couch potato host of TV Hell , last month 's one-night-stand featuring some of the classically bad moments of popular television . |
26 | On the evidence presented here it appears that the majority of low attaining pupils do not have sufficient working understanding of decimal place value in context to develop such a feeling for number . |
27 | The brochures issued by each of the plaintiffs encourages a borrowing member to have such a report for his or her own protection . |
28 | So — you ca n't going to get all the credit for this |
29 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
30 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |