Example sentences of "for the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He longed for the austerities of the mission field . |
| 2 | The events are a good reason for the enthusiasts of this largely non-social past time to gather and renew acquaintances . |
| 3 | My mother must have made quite big money in tips , for the records of her savings , no longer a secret , show quite fabulous sums being stored away in the early sixties . |
| 4 | The same procedure for verification was followed as for the records of the meetings . |
| 5 | For the opponents of transmutation , this meant only that the ‘ centres of creation ’ had been active throughout the earth 's history . |
| 6 | Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion . |
| 7 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 8 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 9 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 10 | Was he right then when he told the people of Scotland , ’ Do n't vote for the proposals of the Labour party because they do not contain any responsibility for raising revenue . |
| 11 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 12 | This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power . |
| 13 | For the definitions of " grant " and " new licence , " see s.139(1) . |
| 14 | For the guts of Papert 's approach is to make geometry and other once-dusty disciplines concrete . |
| 15 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 16 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 17 | It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey . |
| 18 | It was once a retreat for the monks of the Celtic Church . |
| 19 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
| 20 | This imbalance has led to Eureka Audiovisual establishing the following priorities for its work ; the exchange and broadcasting of European works ; training , to encourage competition among European companies ; to assist countries with small production bases and minority languages ; to promote new technologies ; to create more networking opportunities for the industries of cinema and television . |
| 21 | It contributed to D'Arcy 's increasingly bad mood as he scoured the city in his search for the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 22 | The meeting stented £10 for the Directors of the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow , " wishing to Contribute for so laudable a Plan , " and a like sum next year . |
| 23 | As for the directors of early-music ensembles , it is well known that David Munrow and Christopher Hogwood first met in Cambridge . |
| 24 | It is a criminal offence for the directors of a bank to withhold information to which the Bank is entitled as supervisor . |
| 25 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
| 26 | If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany . |
| 27 | The directions are those that would be expected if the pigeons use the sun as a compass , making allowance for the movements of the sun through the day . |
| 28 | The first is what Hallam[00] has termed the ‘ Revolution in the earth sciences ’ ( the word ‘ revolution ’ in his title implying a Kuhnian view of the transformation ) : the acceptance of plate tectonic evidence for the movements of continents , and the opening and closing of oceans . |
| 29 | The first is what Hallam has termed the ‘ revolution in the earth sciences ’ ( the word ‘ revolution ’ in his title implying a Kuhnian view of the transformation ) : the acceptance of plate tectonic evidence for the movements of continents , and the opening and closing of oceans . |
| 30 | We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering . |