Example sentences of "of [noun pl] and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | George raised himself , propped his line against a bundle of reeds and reached for his flask and pack . |
| 2 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 3 | I mean I think it 's , I mean I I have personally asked this question a number of times and pressed for everybody to be paid properly in inverted commas , I E monthly , but this is an assumption about a certain lifestyle and a certain way of budgeting which er I do n't think we have necessarily the right or , you know it 's not necessarily our |
| 4 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 5 | Gifts of cakes and produce for sale , or raffle prizes , will be gratefully received on the day at the Pop-In Club . |
| 6 | Pupils at Grange Primary School in Hartlepool have collected a huge amount of toothbrushes and toothpaste for an orphanage in Romania . |
| 7 | They swarmed on board with the agility of rats and leapt for the defenders . |
| 8 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 9 | And Salford-born Phelan , who has signed a five-year deal , admitted : ‘ My family and I have been through hell in the past couple of weeks and signing for City is such a relief . |
| 10 | Concern was expressed to the Under Fives Select Committee from all quarters about the inappropriateness of curricula and care for young children who are in effect ‘ pre-school ’ but not , in the main , receiving appropriate pre-school learning experiences , and who sometimes are in classes with children up to seven years of age . |
| 11 | PR creates that grim parasite upon democracy , a ‘ political class ’ of career politicians who are less vulnerable to electoral swings , and whose convictions are compromised in the constant brokering of deals and searching for consensus . |
| 12 | of your block of flats and wait for a sign . |
| 13 | In the present chapter , both of these assumptions will be criticized in a variety of ways and rejected for a variety of reasons . |
| 14 | Her invocation of themes and support for many policies favoured by the party 's grass-roots supporters has made the party more radical . |
| 15 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , now it has the necessary imprimatur from the Pope , the Catechism will be sent for translation into dozens of languages and prepared for dispatch around the world . |
| 17 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |
| 18 | As the rally closed , the woman went up to Lafontaine to offer him a bouquet of flowers and to ask for his autograph . |
| 19 | It is therefore entirely possible that the Kremlin will delay a resumption of negotiations and wait for our natural impatience , our demobilization problems , declining American interest in Korean affairs and local dissatisfaction with the division of the country to oblige us to supply speedy solution of these terms , i.e. a united front which excluding [ excludes ] all but elements controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 20 | Check the number and position of points and allow for your additional requirements ; check the lighting points and allow for extras and alterations in your costs . |
| 21 | It was the kind of loose description a teacher might hand out to a class of pupils and ask for drawings based on its inspiration . |
| 22 | Lithuania and Estonia were said to be considering the idea of transitional currencies ; in May Lithuania introduced coupons in 200 and 500 denominations , paid as a percentage of wages and used for goods in short supply . |
| 23 | They had a second round of drinks and talked for another twenty minutes . |
| 24 | In seven patients the data had been fabricated ; confrontation was followed in all cases by cessation of symptoms and support for the parent . |
| 25 | Standard Condition 2.2 now deals with the payment of deposits and provides for a 10% deposit to be taken . |