Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEEDS opened and finished this Regal Trophy second-round game at Headingley with tries of such quality as to mollify their followers for all the dross in between . |
| 2 | The objectives are to help members of the public to find their way through this information store and to transmit their orders for particular journeys or holidays to the providers of those services . |
| 3 | Headless Periplaneta and Schistocerca can be trained to flex their legs for long periods in order to avoid an electric shock . |
| 4 | In addition , to argue with able , patriotic , experienced men is tiring and some ministers have found that it is best to conserve their energies for major issues . |
| 5 | 1989:126 ) and many councils had established race relations units or similar structures to implement their policies for equal opportunities . |
| 6 | The rally , scheduled to take place on Aug. 30 , had been organized by church leaders from several denominations to support their demands for greater political freedom and a national referendum on political reform . |
| 7 | There was a case for the introduction of much more systematic and thorough random checks : these might detect or deter wrongdoers , although the vast majority of solicitors would be unlikely to risk their livelihoods for trifling amounts ; ‘ more importantly they would … allay public concern and official suspicion about improper use of the green form scheme . ’ |
| 8 | All said they were going to consult their leaders for fresh mandates on whether to continue participating in the 26-party democracy talks . |
| 9 | Formal goals may be displaced by informal and incompatible goals that reflect the interests of members who happen to be in a position to substitute their goals for those of ‘ the organization ’ . |
| 10 | Many parties ( including Civic Forum and PAV ) had asked the Interior Ministry to screen their candidates for possible collaboration with the StB in the past , and 166 candidates were reported to have withdrawn by the eve of the elections . |
| 11 | However , little has been done to highlight their attractions for big plcs . |
| 12 | Jones and Pratley , the motor coach company , have told Supporters ' Club officials that they will no longer be able to hire their coaches for away games . |
| 13 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 14 | Almost a century would elapse before the prejudice thus created was extinguished , and donors began freely to leave their bodies for medical research . |
| 15 | The project will try to go further than a mere description of attitudes or beliefs : the object is to explain their origins in previous experiences and to predict their implications for future action . |
| 16 | No one wants to see students forced to abandon their studies for financial reasons and no one wants to see students in hardship , but I do not believe that students are abandoning their studies for financial reasons . |
| 17 | In a society where the uniqueness of Japan 's past weighs heavily , employers are able to justify their demands for personal loyalty and sacrifice in terms of longstanding cultural practices . |
| 18 | They acknowledged that Mr Blake , from Lord Jim , had rescued their employee on both occasions and they wished to record their thanks for this . |
| 19 | Those who invite friends or partners to share their rooms for short or long periods , without first discussing it with co-tenants , are bound to create resentment , let alone increased pressure on shared facilities . |
| 20 | was quite ready and anxious to permit their drawings for these cars to be used in order to ensure that the design would be at least up to their standard and no doubt both Hurst , Nelson and Brush held sets of copies of these drawings . |
| 21 | Now they 're being allowed to keep their jobs for 2 more months , while the Council tries to find a private company to run the workshop on its behalf . |
| 22 | It is hoped to determine their preferences for various alternative supply instruments and incentives such as prices , quotas , nitrogen taxes and land withdrawals . |
| 23 | We arrange incentive travel packages for companies who want to reward their salesmen for increased sales . |
| 24 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 25 | They were n't due to finish their lessons for another twenty minutes . |
| 26 | Conversely , if all institutions are up for grabs all the time , individuals in power will be tempted to milk their positions for private purposes , and those outside power will hesitate to form projects which take time to bear fruit . |
| 27 | In return , the chairmen will want the PFA to drop their demands for 10 per cent of the TV revenue . |
| 28 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 29 | Ten leading UK industrialists accompanied UK Foreign Secretary Hurd when he visited Taif in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 9-10 , to offer their services for post-war reconstruction . |
| 30 | If a husband and wife continue to maintain their investments for further 10 year periods , their £18 per month could be worth : |