Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 2 | Nevertheless a 1914 government report cited the case of a woman found guilty of cruelty for locking her children up in one room while she went out to work for 10/ a week . |
| 3 | Churchill was contemptuous of Butler for occupying so marginal a Cabinet post — ‘ wiping the children 's noses and smacking their bottoms during war-time ’ — and exhorted him to steer well clear of the Public School question and , even more , of the religious settlement . |
| 4 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 5 | Hendley claimed during the trial that her lover came up with hundreds of schemes for disposing of her husband . |
| 6 | There are hundreds of places for mooring boats on the Thames — and this boat may have needed only a temporary mooring . |
| 7 | The Founders had been suspicious of Pilger for wanting too much power long before Sutton was appointed . |
| 8 | And those banks that lent more often had the worst of reasons for doing so : namely , the need to keep afloat borrowers whom their creditors could not afford to see sink . |
| 9 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been a bit short of cash for developing it , ’ said Bruce Rannie . |
| 11 | When writers go abroad they bring back ideas , understandably enough , and the Russian souvenir shop is no less full of wonders for having had its door opened further . |
| 12 | If some of the ideas in this book have been new to you , you may be full of enthusiasm for putting them into practice . |
| 13 | Some better-known ladies are full of support for keeping a woman 's age her own , however . |
| 14 | In many cases , one suspects that dealers are simply jealous of Gagosian for getting Saatchi 's business , but in others there do seem to be justifiable grievances . |
| 15 | Ought we to think less of Johnson for agreeing because he knew full well that he could influence Boswell ? |
| 16 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 17 | Dogs ca n't go in eating areas , and it 's preferred that they do n't climb all over furniture in sitting rooms , but there 's a good acre or 27 of space for romping and rambling . |
| 18 | Wallis is critical of Gusfield for failing to provide evidence of motivation in his study of WCTU participants in the movement . |
| 19 | There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score . |
| 20 | It was n't the best of mornings for camping out particularly under just a make-shift tent . |
| 21 | Council tax payers could face a bill for tens of thousands of pounds for policing a music festival . |
| 22 | The programmer has to be aware right from the initial design stage of the implications of the program design in terms of memory and speed requirements , and must be aware of techniques for optimizing any combination of these factors that is required . |
| 23 | The programmer of a unit must be aware of techniques for producing a program performance that will be acceptable to the user . |
| 24 | The Company will indemnify your next of kin for travelling expenses incurred necessarily in visiting you should you be confined to hospital as a direct result of an accident sustained whilst engaged on Company business . |
| 25 | At the end of what has not been the easiest of years for trading conditions , I am pleased to say that we are just about on target and set fair for 1993 . |