Example sentences of "of [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 2 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 3 | Do you think less of me for that ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 5 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 6 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 7 | ‘ I am very proud of them for that , ’ she added . |
| 8 | If the injured trio — or even one of them for that matter — miss the game , Rangers may have to rely on goalkeeper Andy Goram more than ever . |
| 9 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 10 | And that 's that 's it that 's the pattern for all of them for all those four reactions . |
| 11 | Never a word of thanks from any of them for all we 've done . |
| 12 | I mean there might be millions of them for all we know , but we ca n't find them using our system of maths , cos ours does not allow division by zero . |
| 13 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 14 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 15 | Rayne started the bidding at a guinea and after some brisk competition among the gentlemen at the foot of the stairs it was knocked down to one of them for five guineas . |
| 16 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 17 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 18 | Though infrequent , there are certainly enough of them for geological purposes . |
| 19 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 20 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 21 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 22 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 23 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 24 | They also say maybe our sources got it confused with the fact that the so-called High Availability 6000 , which strapped together two of them for special orders , will become a regular product this week . |
| 25 | He had known most of them for half a lifetime . |
| 26 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 27 | Transend source good quality shareware from all over the world , we then review the best of them for these pages every month . |
| 28 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 29 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 30 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |