Example sentences of "for their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Aberdeen , Chair of the Trust , said : ‘ The students were selected on the personal recommendations of their college tutors for their high standard of performances and for their stated desires for a successful career on international concert platforms . |
| 2 | There were signs and so on , saying Restaurant and Ticket Office and Telephone , and informing passengers where to change for their onward journey , and a clock . |
| 3 | It would mean accepting that an assault could exist without any of the elements which comprise that term ; no one would , for example , have to be placed in fear for their bodily safety . |
| 4 | One can not , in other words , argue from the premise that people may disagree as to whether a person was in fact placed in fear for their bodily safety , to the conclusion that a decision-maker can have untrammelled power to decide whether such an apprehension is indeed a constituent part of the offence at all . |
| 5 | During the same period , 3 other patients not previously treated by us for their primary Hodgkin 's disease were referred with secondary gastric carcinoma . |
| 6 | The couple have had months of treatment for their terrible injuries . |
| 7 | As Tracey and Morrison point out , however , CUTV were soon criticised for their negative stance and consequently metamorphosed from being merely a protest group into a campaigning organisation with more reformist goals . |
| 8 | But now Nottinghamshire are hoping that a new £35,000 sponsorship with Midlands car dealers Swithland Motors will enable them to provide ‘ job security ’ for their contracted players all the year round . |
| 9 | The doctrine of ministerial responsibility is thus a major explanation for the isolation of Whitehall departments , for their inward-looking nature and for their constant emphasis on keeping within the policy bounds set from above . |
| 10 | As with many of the village cottages , some of the bricks probably originated from the brickworks of Frampton , notorious for their variable quality . |
| 11 | The Ehren pokal previously featured in these columns continues to invite comment from readers , and I am grateful to Roger Miles of Atherstone and others for their useful research . |
| 12 | Selsun , long renowned for their effective anti-dandruff shampoo , have now created Soft Conditioner to complete the range . |
| 13 | They require special skills for their effective performance and there are a limited number of individuals with the necessary ability to acquire such skills . |
| 14 | It had been too much even for their savage canine courage to take . |
| 15 | Patrol tasks include keeping a particular lookout for flat-bed lorries , which are used by the IRA as baseplates for their inaccurate and random , but nonetheless effective , homemade mortars . |
| 16 | It seems kind of strange to me that the club sells the largest opponent for their money-hyped out-of-form attacker just when he need some rest … ( he , he ) |
| 17 | Originally the whites were kept more for their decorative qualities than for practical reasons , but since those days their breeders have changed their minds at intervals about the main role of the breed . |
| 18 | Where women are illustrated the results are often less than desirable for they frequently seem to be included for their decorative or ‘ selling ’ power . |
| 19 | These pupils of the Pioneers are less concerned than their masters with experiment , rather with exploiting their teachers ' discoveries for their decorative value . |
| 20 | In a sermon he said that the Slovaks had often " had to struggle just to survive " , and he praised the people 's strength in resisting " traps " laid for their ethnic identity . |
| 21 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
| 22 | But the war was here the occasion for their collective expression , at a time when , with the threat of invasion passed , debates about the future shape of British society were becoming a major ingredient in political discussion . |
| 23 | Hatchery owners then face the problem of getting supplies of the right feedstuffs for their metamorphosing crop . |
| 24 | Modern rail and motorway links have made many firms choose it as a place for their wholesale warehouses either in or around Bristol . |
| 25 | For example , in the heat of debate it is not unusual to hear radically holistic denunciations of ‘ capitalism ’ , or ‘ the racist power structure ’ , which imply the need for their wholesale destruction , followed in the next breath by appeals to specific individuals or groups to ‘ change the system ’ by virtue of their special predisposition to do so . |
| 26 | Though applicants had to demonstrate financial soundness and programming ability , they paid nothing for their regional monopolies , which guaranteed them a share of the £1 billion-plus ( $1.95 billion ) of television advertising sold in Britain each year . |
| 27 | We had a grand switch-on with cameras from Yorkshire Television recording the moment for their regional magazine programme , Calendar , and all the newspapers covered it , too . |
| 28 | In addition to coping with reduced grants , many regions suffered further loss of income through difficulty in attracting advertising revenue for their regional directories and year books . |
| 29 | Under the EC plan , member states would be compelled to establish protected reserves for their key habitats and species , to be co-ordinated by a new body known as Natura 2000 . |
| 30 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |