Example sentences of "[conj] for our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thank you for those who were involved in the preservation of the church , and for our fellow Christians who have given so generously of themselves and their resources to make the work possible . |
| 2 | Robin stressed the vital need for customer service — for end users , trade customers and for our internal customers , our colleagues — if the company is to gain and retain the leading edge over competition . |
| 3 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 4 | Louis then swore in the lingua romana , so that Charles 's men would understand him : For the love of God and for the Christian people and for our common salvation , from this day henceforth , as far as God grants that I know and can , I shall so help this my brother Charles with my aid and in all things , as every man ought in right to help his brother , on condition that he does the like for me . |
| 5 | And for our next trick — the peat bog nappy ? |
| 6 | take proceedings at our own expense and for our own benefit to recover any payment we have made under this policy . |
| 7 | take proceedings at our own expense and for our own benefit to recover any payment we have made under this policy . |
| 8 | take proceedings at our own expense and for our own benefit to recover any payment we have made under this policy . |
| 9 | take proceedings at our own expense and for our own benefit to recover any payment we have made under this policy . |
| 10 | Homi Bhabha , in a significant essay arguing the urgent need to re-engage with Fanon in and for our own time , shows why . |
| 11 | Hugh you have shown throughout all of your work a deep concern for the people working abroad for our partner churches and for our ecumenical relations and the need to keep these matters to the fore of the church and also of our country . |
| 12 | They still have n't fixed a date for the postponed Villa game , but for our away match there on the 6th Feb tickets go on sale on the 15th jan ( same day as tickets for Sheff Wed ) . |
| 13 | But for our present purpose , Parsons ' young friends will be good witnesses for us . |
| 14 | There are many differences between these two groups , but for our present purposes two are critical : |
| 15 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 16 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 17 | The analysis of such spectra can give information about the sample , but for our present purposes we are concerned only with the unperturbed signal , which must be derived from atoms near the surface . |
| 18 | I know the other ladies will understand — but for our leading lady there can only be orchids ! ’ |
| 19 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 20 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 21 | As for our upper class , in 1728 Defoe lamented our aristocracy 's ‘ voluntary and affected stupidity and ignorance ’ , and their preference for leaving politics to other people , so that the government fell into the hands of ‘ knaves , politicians , mercenaries and screwed-up engines ’ . |
| 22 | Friends As for our old friends the Classic riders , |
| 23 | As for our old friend frog face he was psyched out of the game . |
| 24 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 25 | Of course , we also need to pray for the needs that others have , as well as for our own needs . |