Example sentences of "their [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 2 | Their enthusiasm for the research increased after the policemen and women in Easton had reassured themselves about the field-worker 's religion , sensitivity towards which was initially intensified by the common-sense view among some ordinary constables that Queen 's University is a Republican stronghold . |
| 3 | The Scots were , in fact , an amazing success story ; and that success came from their pride , and their enthusiasm for the world outside . |
| 4 | They are also likely to include members who have a high profile in the community and their enthusiasm for the school , or lack of it , may be very influential on others . |
| 5 | Shabba Ranks and his enigmatic manager ‘ The Specialist ’ seem to be in a minority with their enthusiasm for the record . |
| 6 | Many of us will remember their enthusiasm for the work of the Lord and the joy that they had in the fact that God should use them in such a way . |
| 7 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 8 | Their enthusiasm for the gangster film was in part a hope that it would be a transitional form and not an atrophied and unchanging product . |
| 9 | Their unpicking of our trade union law reforms , which would deliberately make strikes easier , longer and more frequent , their support for every last dot and comma of the European Commission 's social action programme , just one directive of which could add £5 billion to the costs of British employers — |
| 10 | Their support for a tax will need to be bought — and they include countries like the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | Now their support for a reactionary government brands them as class traitors . ’ |
| 12 | WORLD rugby officials yesterday risked a damaging political backlash by reaffirming their support for a South African-held World Cup in 1995 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN along with HAPPY MONDAYS , THE SHAMEN and SILVERFISH are amongst the bands lending their support for a new Charter 88 campaign against violations of human rights in Britain . |
| 14 | Any state whose parliament " does not feel able to approve the irrevocable fixing of its currency " could opt out by seeking " exemption " from this stage of economic union ; member states would nevertheless be asked to make a solemn ( non-binding ) declaration proclaiming their support for a " swift transition " to EMU and " their strongest intention to participate in EMU without exemption " . |
| 15 | They affirmed their support for a continued US military presence in Europe . |
| 16 | On Oct. 25 the two main opposition groups , the DCR and the NSF , expressed their support for a DNSF minority government on condition that it committed itself to " the evolution of Romania towards democracy … and the pursuit of economic reform " . |
| 17 | The best source of information was the Ministry of Internal Affairs , but the ministry 's leading figures were virtually unanimous in their support for a version of emancipation which provided peasants with land . |
| 18 | Councils run by all groupings and more importantly on the whole er by none at all er through independent councillors at parish level and they have responded with that united voice , declaring their support for a separate Cornish constituency and it might er bear remarking as I think members on all sides of this house are aware , getting that kind of agreement between councils at different tiers and in different areas of the county is pretty remarkable in itself . |
| 19 | But today people living in Brockweir have pledged their support for a scheme to reopen the school . |
| 20 | Top civil servants have pledged their support for a guest house which is facing closure . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The majority of the newspapers had become woefully compromised in their support for the government and good investigative journalism was one of the casualties . |
| 23 | He has been telling them that both the Soviet Union and the United States have reiterated their support for the league 's plan and that political reform is the only way for the Lebanese to solve their crisis . |
| 24 | EUROPEAN Community leaders will move quickly this week to reassure the Soviet Union that their support for the future ‘ unity ’ of the German people at the weekend EC summit is conditional on the maintenance of peace and stability in Europe . |
| 25 | The trouble with some of those who make much of their support for the health service is that they also oppose any measures taken to make it more effective . |
| 26 | But one should not ignore the fact that there were many Catholics who found themselves opposing Franco because of their support for the independence movements . |
| 27 | Loyalist intransigence was bolstered not only by the new IRA campaign but also by the actions of three leading Fianna Fáil politicians in the South who were open and vocal in their support for the IRA . |
| 28 | In a recent review of the national programme , the NCS called for both its sponsors , the Science and Engineering Research Council ( SERC ) and the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , to increase their support for the technology . |
| 29 | Outside in the street , still waiting in the cold wind were the friends , neighbours and complete strangers who had come to show their support for the families . |
| 30 | Men and ( especially ) women , pacifists and Communists , Liberal , Labour and ( some ) Tory activists , Co-operators and Christians trudged through the streets distributing and collecting Ballot forms and — despite the organizers ' pretentions to scientific objectivity — persuading people to declare their support for the League of Nations . |