Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 2 | If there is no particular justification for these categories , and they appear to be somewhat arbitrary , what faith can schools then have in them as a basis for review ? |
| 3 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 4 | But , in the final analysis , if you ca n't get any help , if he wo n't refer you to a specialist for help change your doctor ! |
| 5 | Keep those milk bottle tops : with a bit of ingenuity , and an empty egg box , you can fashion them into a pacemaker for granny . |
| 6 | That certainly qualifies him for a prize for brass neck . |
| 7 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 8 | Early maternal deprivation had clearly left him with a hankering for mother figures in his life and I was n't the first . |
| 9 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 10 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 11 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 12 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 13 | Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks . |
| 14 | ( By contrast , in April 1990 some journalists had questioned the regime 's claim of an alleged attempted coup , dismissing it as a pretext for action against suspected opponents — see p. 37367 . ) |
| 15 | Like all its designs , the B3 is tailor-made and you can buy it as a flat-pack for self-assembly or have it assembled by the company . |
| 16 | Oracle will make multimedia information server technology openly available , pitching it as a standard for information providers , such as universities and entertainment firms to deliver information . |
| 17 | ‘ They play three at the back , but the ability of players like Awford enables them to use it as a springboard for attack as well as a defensive system . |
| 18 | If I say , ‘ No ’ , they will take it as a signal for war . |
| 19 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 20 | However , if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this . |
| 21 | The Romanian Government , WHO and UNICEF have taken a great interest in our education programme and are actively looking for ways to use it as a model for Health Education in Romania . |
| 22 | Or did he see it as a force for change ? |
| 23 | This leaflet took an easily accessible matter ( not too academic or removed from peoples ' everyday lives ) and turned it into a hook for recruitment . |
| 24 | This leaflet took an easily accessible matter ( not too academic or removed from peoples ' everyday lives ) and turned it into a hook for recruitment . |
| 25 | ‘ He controls his grief , turns it into a subject for contemplation . |
| 26 | Appledorn said clear plastic film can also be covered with triangular grooves to make it into a mirror for use as ‘ light pipes ’ for more efficient road lighting , while other shapes create a reflector to make a road sign stand out when illuminated . |
| 27 | He is not some hack student politician who has commandeered a pressure group and turned it into a vehicle for self-advertisement , his eyes trained all the while on a safe Tory seat . |
| 28 | At the other end the teachers were ready to hoist it onto a trolley for transportation to the basket lift . |
| 29 | It was these northern gentry who became the model for those who sought to save the influence of the nobility by involving it in a movement for reform and economic progress . |
| 30 | We 'll probably wait for some boring moment on the tour and go over it , collect it and put it in a book for posterity ! ’ |