Example sentences of "of [pron] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 2 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 3 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 4 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 5 | If the injured trio — or even one of them for that matter — miss the game , Rangers may have to rely on goalkeeper Andy Goram more than ever . |
| 6 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 7 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 8 | Rayne started the bidding at a guinea and after some brisk competition among the gentlemen at the foot of the stairs it was knocked down to one of them for five guineas . |
| 9 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 10 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 11 | Though infrequent , there are certainly enough of them for geological purposes . |
| 12 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 13 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 14 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 15 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 16 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 17 | They also say maybe our sources got it confused with the fact that the so-called High Availability 6000 , which strapped together two of them for special orders , will become a regular product this week . |
| 18 | Transend source good quality shareware from all over the world , we then review the best of them for these pages every month . |
| 19 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 20 | In any given year there may be 120,000 or 130,000 elections held , most of them for local school boards . |
| 21 | It has won 63 Pulitzer prizes , more than any other newspaper , but only one of them for local reporting . |
| 22 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 23 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 24 | Midgley booked five players — Strachan and Hodge of Leeds and Le Saux , Clarke and Wise of Chelsea — all but one of them for minor offences . |
| 25 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 26 | In the end , this passion of his for generating paper got to be so ridiculous that we had T-shirts made up , with the DEA logo and OPERATION MAKAKOPI in big letters across the chest . |
| 27 | But in essence what we 're doing is putting your business card in front of somebody for two years . |
| 28 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 29 | The basis of his theory of democracy is a theory of capitalist enterprise , and Schumpeter emphasizes the connection not only by discussing the historical relation between capitalism and democracy , but by treating political parties as analogous to business concerns engaged in a competitive struggle ( for power in one case , profits in the other ) the aim of which for each party/enterprise is to increase its share of the market ( constituted by voters or consumers ) . |
| 30 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |