Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 2 | COSI is thought to be part of a much broader technology effort now coming together that will likely involve IBM too in some way , though no-one we spoke to was prepared to elaborate further for fear of upsetting delicate negotiations . |
| 3 | Some residents we spoke to were frightened to talk publicly for fear of reprisals . |
| 4 | Whatever the reason we have to look elsewhere for evidence of the origins of the invertebrates . |
| 5 | Timothy 's interest in decorative schemes drew him to look carefully for evidence of the old painted ornament , and he found plenty . |
| 6 | They believe that certain extremist Christian movements encourage workers in the social services to look everywhere for evidence of satanism . |
| 7 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 8 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 9 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |