Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Out of my mind for wanting a traitorous little witch like you . |
| 2 | While FLOWERED UP were in the process of getting kicked out of their hotel for spraying the porters with fire extinguishers , Bez was safe in his room making a four-hour phone call to his missus and the very adorable new addition to his family , baby son ARLO . |
| 3 | The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme . |
| 4 | Although visual system physiologists treat the monkey as the model system of their choice for studying the visual cortex , a surprising amount of useful data has been gathered using cats as subjects , despite the known anatomical differences between cats and monkeys . |
| 5 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 6 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 7 | Unlike the UK , where the Court on declaring an agreement " contrary to the public interest " then has little power to impose effective penalties against offending firms , the Commission has considerable powers of enforcement and can fine firms up to 10 per cent of their turnover for operating an anti- competitive practice . |
| 8 | In consequence , the burgeoning nineteenth-century penal and criminal justice system was aimed at these socially ‘ dangerous classes ’ simply because of their potential for contesting the power of the state and those in control . |
| 9 | THE LABOUR leadership suffered an embarrassing rebuff when lesbian and gay rights activists won a conference endorsement of their demand for cutting the age of homosexual consent from 21 to 16 . |
| 10 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 11 | So it is no wonder that the CEGB has responded by publishing an unprecedentedly large volume of material in support of its case for building a PWR at Sizewell . |
| 12 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 13 | Firstly , the development of the Anglo-American civil aviation relationship in the troubled context of the 1980s and early 1990s will be explored and some assessment of its importance for determining the character of the world 's overall aviation system will be given . |
| 14 | The size of the " yes " vote surprised both the National Party ( NP ) government , which was seeking a renewal of its mandate for negotiating a political settlement with anti-apartheid organizations , and the Conservative Party ( CP ) which led the " no " campaign . |
| 15 | Mrs Blanchard 's already told Mr Coombs of her plan for reducing the budget deficit . |
| 16 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 17 | Letter from Vial to the Odiham Society , to whom he had sent 10 copies of his plan for forming a veterinary college . |
| 18 | THE Queen , rather pre-occupied these days , has nevertheless found time to quash attempts to strip Sir Walter Raleigh of his title for introducing the dreaded weed in to this country . |
| 19 | An example of the strength of this animus occurred in 1982–3 in the celebrated case of the Revd David Armstrong , censured by the elders of his congregation for entering the Roman catholic church across the road to offer its worshippers Christmas greetings , and eventually forced to leave his ministry ( Armstrong and Saunders 1985 ) . |
| 20 | A policeman was charged with manslaughter following the shooting in Béziers on Dec. 21 of a Moroccan teenager in the course of his arrest for stealing a car . |
| 21 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson , criticised by sections of his crowd for allowing the deal , went to the unusual lengths of attacking Cantona 's refusal to obey club rules and detailing his faxed request to leave . |
| 22 | That the situation was as it was , and hence that certain events did not and certain events did occur , is indeed much of our reason for asserting the conditional statement but not part of the statement . |