Example sentences of "of [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Though infrequent , there are certainly enough of them for geological purposes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has won 63 Pulitzer prizes , more than any other newspaper , but only one of them for local reporting . |
| 8 | In any given year there may be 120,000 or 130,000 elections held , most of them for local school boards . |
| 9 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 10 | The meeting came within days of separate proposals by each of them for sweeping new reductions in nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | Capital-goods imports , many of them for huge petrochemical projects , rose 14% in 1990 . |
| 12 | Midgley booked five players — Strachan and Hodge of Leeds and Le Saux , Clarke and Wise of Chelsea — all but one of them for minor offences . |
| 13 | In the end , this passion of his for generating paper got to be so ridiculous that we had T-shirts made up , with the DEA logo and OPERATION MAKAKOPI in big letters across the chest . |
| 14 | Tonight she 'd seen the way to get rid of him for good . |
| 15 | He was bad all through , that one , and they were good folk They wanted rid of him for good , and I think they were a bit afraid he might come back , and then how could they turn him out ? ’ |
| 16 | Malham , though , has also been a favourite spot of mine for little walks , the sort of walks that only take an afternoon . |
| 17 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 18 | If so , please take note of it for future reference . |
| 19 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 20 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 21 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 22 | I would n't be without this for the world and use it , or parts of it for different jobs all the time . |
| 23 | As with Elizabethan concepts of society , where each man was supposed to labour in his vocation and place , each character usually belongs to one medium and only moves out of it for special and clearly defined purposes , love , hate , respect , mockery , dissimulation , self-revelation . |
| 24 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |