Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for their " in BNC.

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1 A summary of export mission achievements is shown on page 10 of this Report and I take this opportunity to thank all those who have led Scottish Council missions during 1989/90 for their excellent support .
2 The implications of this for their future as well as their present financial circumstances are obvious .
3 educating all teachers about the role of language in education , and the implications of this for their work .
4 The banks were boulder-strewn , but there were small inlets , and Travis chose one of these for their campsite .
5 Davies Wallis Foyster — the North West 's largest law practice — realised the importance of 1992 for their profession very early on .
6 Perhaps Judge Pickles 's utterances were disapproved of more for their style than for their content .
7 They attract crowds of 450 for their home matches in the Luxembourg league and brought 26 fans with them for this UEFA Cup first round tie .
8 Jadeite artefacts were prized above all for their symbolic roles .
9 Many of the glittering pieces are reported to be worth more for their design than the gems they contain .
10 Six people had been executed in 1986 for their part in the attempt .
11 The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence .
12 The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence .
13 For the British , then , the picture was not ultimately as black as it appeared to be in 1945. for their part , the Americans viewed the British with considerable suspicion , and harboured their traditional fears of being outmanoeuvred .
14 They will use the questions agreed in 1 for their discussions and will be asked to limit the number of priorities to three .
15 The last of the 22 people detained in 1987 for their alleged involvement in a " Marxist conspiracy " to overthrow the Singapore government [ see p. 35462 ] were conditionally released in June .
16 Cheng and Teo were the last to be released of 22 people detained in 1987 for their involvement in the " conspiracy " [ see p. 35462 ] .
17 The SERPS has been severely downgraded ( including widows ' benefits ) and will become a progressively less effective vehicle for compensating women in particular for their disadvantages in the labour market .
18 But the poor had cause to be grateful to the railways too , in particular for their supplies of fresh fish .
19 At the same time , he was much too committed to them by years in common for their limp urbanity to strike him as funny in world-changers .
20 To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March .
21 Its first successful pieces of legislation were repayments to Labour for their support during the election : the Trade Disputes Act 1906 , which reversed the Taft Vale decision and gave unions immunity from prosecution for non-violent acts in furtherance of an industrial dispute , and the extension of Women 's Compensation , also in 1906 .
22 None of this was the assertion of a separate nationality ; they were all subjects of the King of England , and relied on this for their safety , but this reassuring English presence only encouraged them to manage their own local affairs in smaller and smaller units .
23 They were asked to give a " confidence rating " on a scale from 1 to 3 for their answer ( 1 being least and 3 being most confident ) .
24 I hope I can encourage the uninitiated to go out and treat themselves to several for their Christmas stocking as well as see the value of videos as a valid support technique during the long winter evenings ahead .
25 On his appointment in Scotland he formed part of a group of geologists who , in the period before World War I , were internationally without parallel for their original insights into metamorphic and igneous rocks and the intricate problems of structural geology .
26 The rationale of this is that broadly speaking the net income was spent as to one-third for the benefit of each and as to one-third for their joint benefit .
27 Ardingly , thanks to 67 from Adam Slight , set up a good declaration at 225/6 for their opponents who accepted the challenge and won by five wickets .
28 One which is going to be published and placed in the hands of people at large for their help in understanding the faith .
29 ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement .
30 Although this sounds silly , it happens quite often that contestants act with no regard at all for their own safety .
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