Example sentences of "for [pron] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For thee these Hands wind up the whirling Jack , |
| 2 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 3 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 4 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 5 | " The implementation of this Specification rests on the goodwill that is needed towards those passengers for whom these features cater " . |
| 6 | This was particularly noticeable among the younger policemen , for whom this imagery seems to be a defining characteristic of their work . |
| 7 | Through pressure and interest groups it could be claimed that the old democratic principle of participation was reinstated , but in a suitably modern form which accepted that it was not individuals but groups for whom this possibility existed . |
| 8 | But proper critical attention will be reserved for the museum 's major treatment of Käthe Kollwitz , for whom this exhibition celebrates the 125th anniversary of her birth . |
| 9 | Certainly not the radiant glow of confidence and success , or it sure as hell would n't have worked for me that Saturday round at Ramillies Drive . |
| 10 | Then it was the turn for my own hand to explore the anonymous member beyond the missing brick . |
| 11 | Madeleine was awarded for her many hours spent with the elderly , helping with cooking , shopping or driving , as well as her work for the social services . |
| 12 | However , some fabrics to which Laura now aspired were , she knew , too lavish for her own company to produce . |
| 13 | It was a chilling thought that the very circumstances she was using for her own purpose accorded only too well with the Empress 's schemes . |
| 14 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 15 | She was very much upset , for her own life had been ‘ smashed up ’ by the deaths of her brothers . |
| 16 | In her study My Mother My Self ( Fontana , £5.99 ) , psychologist Nancy Friday puts her finger on how I felt when she says that , at such a time , ‘ The new mother finds the need for her own mother increasing . |
| 17 | While the Whitney waits for its own space to show works from its permanent collection , 97% of which is usually in storage , the museum has initiated a novel arrangement with the San Jose Museum in California . |
| 18 | It is a place to which resort , during the formative years of early adult life , those desirous and capable of learning how people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake go about their business . |
| 19 | Believing in democracy for its own sake does not seem to be characteristic of Chinese political thought , past or present . |
| 20 | The astonishing achievements of Western civilisation in controlling and exploring the resources of the world , and the consequent increase in material wealth and standards of living , would not have taken place if the procurement of knowledge for its own sake had not mapped out the paths of which technology and investment for profit thereafter took advantage . |
| 21 | In theory they were writing a book on the actors , but long since the fascination of collection for its own sake had taken over and work on the collation of evidence ceased . |
| 22 | As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale . |
| 23 | Those whose business is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake recognise their fellows : there is a community between them which they acknowledge because their mutual cross-fertilisation depends upon the underlying unity of human inquisitiveness in all its manifestations . |
| 24 | In the second place , possession is not merely evidence of ownership , but ( subject to the rights of the owner ) is itself and for its own sake entitled to legal protection . |
| 25 | In the context of financial conglomerates , this might concern information , say , in the corporate finance arm which could be used by the investment arm for its own account dealing . |
| 26 | Royalists were often heavily fined or , like John Ashburnham , had their entire estates sequestered , but the concern of the gentry for its own solidarity modified much of the bitterness which might otherwise have damaged the county further . |
| 27 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 28 | All , or most , major socioeconomic groups and the six governments had believed that its benefits for their own interests outweighed its disadvantages . |
| 29 | One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population . |
| 30 | For Mozambique , he suggests that donors redirect ten-fifteen percent of the 200–300 million dollars they spend annually on salaries for their own personnel to pay Mozambican public service salaries . |