Example sentences of "[adj] of for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might Nikos be right and Andrus merely an unwitting accomplice , ignorant of for whom the money was intended ? |
| 2 | In the early days of Soviet rule it was not unheard of for remote journals to attack Izvestiia and the Central Committee . |
| 3 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 4 | No one in the CRA delegation understood that it was unheard of for a non-Unionist procession to enter that area . |
| 5 | It is almost unheard of for anything to be marked with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 6 | According to Institute statistics , it was almost unheard of for a member to go into an IVA until two years ago , but in 1991 23 IVAs were reported , last year the number soared to 56 , and by half way through January , the 1993 total was already into double figures . |
| 7 | County butterfly recorder Steve Piotrowski said : ‘ Up to this year it has been virtually unheard of for the species to over-winter in Suffolk . ’ |
| 8 | It 's unheard of for a two-year-old to race against older horses in America , but my horse has done well and I hope more will follow us over . |
| 9 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 10 | " It 's unheard of for a religious Order to dwell in a tent or wagon . |
| 11 | Note also from table 10.2 ( last figure in fifth row ) that it is not totally unheard of for couples to share the rearing of their children by both working part-time , but the number involved was minute — 9000 in the whole of England and Wales in 1981 . |
| 12 | ‘ But she was very late — which is almost unheard of for a second birth , ’ he recalls . |
| 13 | It was unheard of for Captain and Mrs Burrows to take even half a day off during their ministry , but there were times when the older children were close to tears over their exercise books . |
| 14 | The appointment of a slave to the office of Grand Vezir in 857/1453 , however , set the seal on the tendency to man the highest offices of the central administration , the vezirliks , with slaves ; and though it was by no means unheard of for a member of the ulema thereafter to hold a vezirlik , one begins to see the development of a separate hierarchy more or less confined to members of the ulema , the highest offices in which , known as were an end in themselves and not mere stepping-stones to high office in other areas such as the central administration . |
| 15 | She would be considered a slut if she did , and since it is almost unheard of for a Ugandan man to do without sex for a year , her husband would usually seek another woman . |
| 16 | The streets are full of For Sale notices , although close inspection shows they refer to repossessions in which Southend is the third worst case in the country outside London ; the local paper carries two pages of bankruptcy notices a week . |
| 17 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 18 | There are , in practice , ways of cutting costs — up to a point — but it is difficult to produce a commercial you can be proud of for under around £60000 — £70000 in the UK today ( 1992 ) , and costs of over £150000 are common . |
| 19 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 20 | Poor practices at the bank which the auditors were aware of for years , a crashing indictment er of the auditors . |