Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without her being conscious of it at the time , her struggle for independence rotated around the figure of Hansel . |
| 2 | CRISIS club Barnet 's future was balanced on a knife edge last night after Football League officials rejected their request for £91,000 withheld in lieu of fine payments and commission costs . |
| 3 | Market uncertainty forced Hays , the business services group which is seeking a stock market listing , to revise the launch price for its offer for sale scheduled to take place this month . |
| 4 | Was her love for Silas written all over her face ? |
| 5 | It was when the community of Muslims had progressed to the second caliph — another companion of Muhammad 's named Omar ibn al-Khattab — that Omar 's Arab followers , already having to confront the resistance of the Byzantine emperor to their efforts to expand their area of influence northward into Palestine and Syria , found their drive for conquest opposed by the Persian empire . |
| 6 | It was reported on Aug. 3 that the Supreme Court of New South Wales had awarded damages of A$2,850,000 ( US$2,224,500 ) to a teenage girl who had sued her mother for negligence committed whilst the girl was still a foetus . |
| 7 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 8 | Hobbes 's references to previous lack of philosophical progress and the disputatious wrangling of the prevailing scholastic philosophy , and his distaste for ideas based solely on the foundation of authority , are all reminiscent of Bacon . |
| 9 | It did not follow that , because the architect was under a duty to act fairly in making a valuation for the certificates , he was acting in a judicial capacity and therefore immune from liability to his principal for loss caused to him by a negligent valuation . |
| 10 | The airfield experiments gave Bill Larnach his taste for research linked to empirical fieldwork . |
| 11 | Of course his answer for A agreed with that determined experimentally . |
| 12 | In the same way that , in 1941 , he had been convinced that Hitler was in his debt for services rendered in the struggle against communism , Franco now believed the western powers owed it to him to recognize that he had been right all along . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Mr Candlish expresses his gratitude for assistance received during his period of office as president . |
| 14 | A congressman 's support for the president on a particular issue may not represent a straightforward quid pro quo ; it could well be a mark of his gratitude for favours bestowed upon him in the past . |
| 15 | Ending the agreement , whether by you or the Bank [ see Conditions 9 and 13 ] will not affect your responsibility for withdrawals made before the agreement is ended . |
| 16 | This result agrees with our experience for surfaces embedded in three space . |
| 17 | Firstly through exhibitions and our support for exhibitions organised by other organizations , and also by taking crafts into schools so that we are , if you like , exposing the younger generation to the best in the craft world , in the hope that in the future they will be the buyers of good craft work . |