Example sentences of "by [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the attraction was due to the German blood which flowed in the veins of some of my ancestors ; it was no doubt helped by my veneration for the genius of men like Wagner and Goethe . |
| 2 | The success of the document reuse was measured by its support for the production of a new book entitled Hypertext . |
| 3 | Our civilization will be destroyed , he wrote , not by the Bomb but by its reverence for the Creative Spirit . |
| 4 | The ZSL — challenged by the emergence of the PSL and the PSL-S , and faced with the expression of mass support by its membership for the PSL — had brought forward its 11th extraordinary congress to Nov. 26-27 , 1989 , when it changed its name to the PSL-Rebirth ( PSL — Odrodzenie ) . |
| 5 | Students did not want to suffer such humiliation even though the new policies were implemented by their government for the betterment of the nation . |
| 6 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 7 | At an early stage the archbishop and ten of his suffragans had signed a declaration that they intended no prejudice to the king by their support for the reforms , and the Ordainers themselves swore to work for the benefit of church , king and people . |
| 8 | ‘ For long [ before the revolution of 1789 ] ’ , wrote a contemporary , ‘ the intendants , directed by public opinion , sought rather to distinguish themselves by their care for the people and by works of public utility , than by their obedience to ministerial wishes . ’ |
| 9 | b ) Brave , passionate , deeply misunderstood woman crucified by her love for the heartless , impossible , provincial Flaubert . |
| 10 | HER husband , Tom , has slept by her bedside for the last three months . |
| 11 | The emotion of bitterness is conveyed by his metaphor for the granting of his peril , like ‘ Wealthy men who care not how they give ’ . |
| 12 | His appointment in 1955 as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London , for example , was marked by his affection for the zoo , but also by ructions as he fought the old guard for his sensible proposals for change . |
| 13 | ‘ During wind and rain ’ , in which memories of the past are set against present reality through contrasting images and metres , is one of the greatest of them ; but ‘ The oxen ’ , inspired by his nostalgia for the traditions of Christianity , is perhaps the most popular . |
| 14 | For a time Charles surprised his friends by his enthusiasm for the nursery routine . |
| 15 | But C.C. 's abnormal difficulty in judging vertical symmetry is caused by his neglect for the left of figures , which should not disrupt judgements of symmetry about the horizontal axis . |
| 16 | He was surprised by his impatience for the party to end . |
| 17 | The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer . |
| 18 | My friend Tom Paine — I got this wound , ’ he held up his afflicted hand , ‘ fighting by his side for the freedom of our American Brothers — he has written and fought for freedom in America , in France and here in his native land . |
| 19 | He likes his secrets and was impressed by his mother for the way she kept hers for years , that he was not her son . |
| 20 | One of the ways in which that can be done — again , this is mentioned in the Queen 's Speech — is by our support for the conference that will take place in Buenos Aires in June 1992 on the environment and on aid . |