Example sentences of "of [noun pl] for [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 2 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 3 | Pros today should go down on their knees and say a prayer of thanks for what he did for our profession . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There is no greater waste than that of willing employees prevented by insensitive leadership from applying their energies and ambitions in the interest of companies for which they work . ’ |
| 5 | These men were responsible for the maintenance of places for which they acted and for ensuring that worship was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the bodies to which they belonged . |
| 6 | The amount is calculated according to the number of years for which you have paid contributions . |
| 7 | In the first place , coins can supply portraits of persons for whom we have no other likeness . |
| 8 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 9 | Such energy as he had to spare from his clerical duties was expended on the cultivation of orchids for which he enjoyed a national reputation . |
| 10 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 11 | Only a minority entered the kinds of jobs for which they had originally hoped and the rest had to take what they could get . |
| 12 | There was free drink for a couple of nights for anyone who arrived at the Cross Keys with a bottle of malt . |