Example sentences of "of [noun prp] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They gave an unqualified audit report on the financial statements of Atlantic for the year ended 31 December 1987 ( before the acquisition ) and for the year ended 31 December 1988 ( i.e. in part after the acquisition ) . |
| 32 | Premier Brands of Liverpool for the cash to hire the cab ; Frank Brown and the pupils of Musselburgh Grammar School for their hard work and donations ; staff and pupils at Prenton High School , Moreton near Liverpool for their donations ; Sean 's wife Angie for not producing their second child until Sean arrived home ; Susan , my long suffering wife , who never batted an eyelid as this project unfolded and gave me lots of encouragement . |
| 33 | Money , paid allegedly for takeover fees and consultancy advice , was channelled to various associates of Guinness for the purpose of buying Guinness shares , thereby increasing the share price — this is known as a share-support operation . |
| 34 | With the complexions of their previously pimpled damsels well-polished by the sulphur bath , they depart the luxury of Harrogate for the homeliness of Manchester . |
| 35 | On Jan. 16 , 1991 , Australia delivered a submission to the International Court of Justice at The Hague arguing against a compensation claim lodged in May 1989 by the government of Nauru for the cost of restoring soil and vegetation cover to much of the island . |
| 36 | In the 1830s and 40s alternative ideas such as those of Owen for the substitution of co-operation for individualistic competition lost the struggle for ideological hegemony to ideas of liberal laissez-faire , although they survived among groups of radical working people and among some philanthropists . |
| 37 | The armour of God for the fight ( 6:10–19 ) . |
| 38 | But he is not directly accessible in any ordinary sense , nor can the necessity of the concept of God for the interpreting of our experience be demonstrated , at least so far as pure reflection on the nature of our knowledge can take us . |
| 39 | He said , ‘ You are mistaking the hand of God for the work of man . ’ |
| 40 | There is still quite a lot of opposition , so I do n't think it 's , it 's a certainty , but I would certainly very much hope and believe that this is the will of God for the Church and that , that it will happen . |
| 41 | ’ I am not ashamed of the Gospel , because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes … ’ |
| 42 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 43 | For all we know , and for all Abraham and Sarah know too , it is Hagar who carries in her womb the plans of God for the redemption of the world . |
| 44 | A pastor , he said , is the deputy of Christ for the reducing of man to the obedience of God . |
| 45 | Rome is seen to continue on its headlong path to misery and sin , a symbol of the rejection of Christ for the sake of human idols . |
| 46 | The two guest speakers were Zygmunt Tyskiewicz , Secretary General UNICE , and Lord Astor , Government spokesman in the House of Lords for the Department of Heritage . |
| 47 | A JP of Middlesex and Westminster for many years , he searched for papists and for popish books , and was employed by the committee of the House of Lords for the examination of witnesses , dominated by Shaftesbury . |
| 48 | Against that background and the highly critical comments of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 8 October about the attitude and behaviour of Mr. Denktash , when will the Government — and the Prime Minister in particular — show some evidence of active involvement in the affairs of Cyprus for the benefit of both communities , Greek and Turkish ? |
| 49 | and a formula of Mewe for the continuum emission due to free-free and free-bound charged-particle interactions , and two-photon processes . |
| 50 | Following disagreements with the Genevan authorities , he moved in the later 1960s , first to London and then to Banbury , where he died 10 November 1976 , having arranged with the University of Oxford for the bequest of his scholarly research interests ( the Voltaire Foundation ) to the Taylor Institution there . |
| 51 | in the early 1970s a gill-net fishery developed in the Gulf of California for the totoaba fish , and the nets also caught many vaquita ( also known as cochito ) . |
| 52 | First launched in complete secrecy on 19 June 1970 , the programme placed in geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator an eavesdropping satellite developed by the TRW Corporation of California for the NSA . |
| 53 | Yet mutual distrust persisted between France and Germany , Hitler rose to power in Germany , the Italian intervention in Abyssinia revealed the contempt of Italy for the League of Nations , and the Spanish Civil War , the subject of the next chapter , presented the stark challenge of fascism . |
| 54 | Day Five : Have an early breakfast then all too soon it will be time to catch the train back to the Hook of Holland for the crossing back to Harwich and onward rail journey to London , where your arrival time will be approximately 9 p.m . |
| 55 | Radiation monitoring networks were inadequate in many European countries for the purpose of rapidly pinpointing radiation hot spots , though in hindsight a rainfall map of Europe for the period provided a useful approximation . |
| 56 | A five-strong British team will contest the Commonwealth Tournament at Northumberland Golf Club from 6 — 8 June ; Great Britain and Ireland take on the Continent of Europe for the Vagliano Trophy at Nairn from 20 — 21 September , and the four Home countries will be among the line-up for the European Team Championship at Wentworth from 10 — 14 July . |
| 57 | The tournament replaced the Zenith Cup to provide a taste of Europe for the Football League 's top First Division clubs , but Cotton said : ‘ It is a clash of two football cultures and when that happens sparks are always likely to fly . |
| 58 | There are those who do indeed believe ( as we have seen , with some justification in terms of legal precedent ) that matters have already gone too far in the direction of a United States of Europe for the process to be stopped from reaching its federal point of destination . |
| 59 | They 're escaping the fog and frost of Britain for the winter warmth of California where conditions are almost ideal for free fall training . |
| 60 | If you 're thinking of going to France this year you 'll be deli , you 'll be delighted to hear that we 're currently offering a three week inclusive holiday in the South of France for the price of two weeks , ask at your local A A shops for details of this and the free ferry crossing offer |