Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All is silent — the sun is set and as the branches of the woodland trees reflect in the gentle water of the pool I feel the whole of existence draw closer around me as my capacity for description dissolves into an experience of the infinite . |
| 2 | My feeling for girls has still the same nervous reverence of childhood or earliest boyhood , rather increased if anything , and only too excessive to be chivalrous . |
| 3 | My visa for Niger begins on my birthday , February the twenty-second . |
| 4 | My taste for asparagus comes from my childhood . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
| 6 | ‘ That will depend on my performances and I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
| 7 | Its struggle for existence has taken in 20 years of Fascism and six years of wartime occupation . |
| 8 | Their case for arboreality rests largely on Lucy 's long , curved and heavily muscled hands and feet which suggest grasping . |
| 9 | Fruit juices are high in fructose , which weight for weight has the same calories as sucrose ( ordinary sugar ) . |
| 10 | Along the road her shop for children specialises in ‘ traditional favourites — classic books , wooden toys , teddies , and so on ’ . |
| 11 | Their desire for re-election forces them to adopt strategies in which they are highly sensitive to pressure groups . |
| 12 | Compounded by their own unconscious survival strategy , their room for manoeuvre appears to shrink until it vanishes . |
| 13 | Their passion for raiding has declined in recent years , but in most other respects their lifestyles have changed little in centuries , and the rugs they make today remain faithful to their ancestors ' methods of weaving and repertoire of designs . |
| 14 | Katie sets out on the trail of the kidnappers and her song for Ben becomes the means to save his life . |
| 15 | The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless . |
| 16 | Their preference for cleanliness extends to a marked dislike of the chemicals that we may choose to chuck in . |
| 17 | The Willses ' modesty about their own achievements has amounted to selfdisparagement , and their preference for understatement has made some of them seem uncommunicative , especially at large gatherings , and has masked their underlying good humour and quiet sense of fun . |
| 18 | Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well . |
| 19 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 20 | Apart from the outstanding quality and rarity of many of the items , much of their fascination for scholars has lain in being able to document them in the family 's ancient inventories . |
| 21 | Kintsch and Bates ( 1977 ) tested students on their memory for classroom lectures several days after the lecture , when the students were not expecting such a test . |
| 22 | The UK has always been a net exporter of carpets and its reputation for quality has worldwide acclaim . |
| 23 | EFTA simply had to try to keep pace with its rival : when the EEC , for example , accelerated its timetable for tariff cuts in May 1960 , EFTA had to follow suit with its own revised programme the following February , simply to keep in step with the EEC . |
| 24 | This result was never thereafter challenged : there were no protests or riots in the streets or general mayhem as there would have been , and God knows has been , in that other Celtic country across the water whose struggle for independence has never ceased . |
| 25 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 26 | His trial for manslaughter continues . |
| 27 | His campaign for peace has been original , gimmicky and , above all , successful in securing publicity for a cause . |
| 28 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 29 | Even the sceptical Horace Walpole was impressed at the result , as his diary for mid-September testifies : |
| 30 | While his passion for theology seems to have pre-occupied him mainly during his period as a cardinal , he would not have been the first to have changed the direction of his interests when more practical challenges came his way . |