Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
| 2 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 3 | Bill Cash is a lawyer who for many years has specialised in constitutional issues , not least that of the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution . |
| 4 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 5 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 6 | They fielded a ten-man defence which for some time looked like achieving the 0–0 draw they desired . |
| 7 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 8 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 9 | Although an active sponsor itself for many years , Guinness also encourages others to use its sponsorship programmes to raise money for charity . |
| 10 | Not only have I learned that soon I will not only be responsible for myself but a small vulnerable child who for many years to come will be under my protection , but I have also gained an inner strength that I never knew I was capable of having . |
| 11 | Indeed , Roheim reports that mothers will never deny the breast to a child of any age , even to save a younger one from starvation ; and a child who for some reason can not nevertheless find the mother 's breast can usually find another woman ready to suckle him . |
| 12 | As he had said in a lecture delivered in Dublin in 1936 , ‘ I have myself no capacity whatever for abstract thought or indeed for any sort of thinking ’ ( the Southern Review , October 1985 ) . |
| 13 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 14 | THE Laughing Man , the Parisian robot which for beckoned generations of visitors through the doors of Blackpool 's Fun House , lives on . |
| 15 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 16 | Connected to the main library was a hexagonal room which for some time housed the school 's paperback bookshop . |
| 17 | There is no place whatsoever for other gods . |
| 18 | This is a case where there is no lawful basis whatever for any demand of tax to be made by the revenue . |
| 19 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 20 | Sir William , who claims that fragmentation will damage Britain 's world influence in conservation , is a merchant banker who for two years after joining the NCC combined banking with conservation . |
| 21 | The Fulton Committee was not , by its terms of reference , allowed to look at the relationship with Parliament but , as a result , it blamed the service itself for many characteristics imposed on it by virtue of this relationship . |
| 22 | It looks as if he decided on a do-it-yourself habit modelled on those of Augustinian hermits who wore a basic white garment and scapulary which for outside wear were covered with a black cowl and hood tied round with a black leather thong . |
| 23 | The struggle over Machault 's proposals was fought with a bitterness which for several years partially paralysed the workings of government and led to widespread speculations of imminent revolution . |
| 24 | This bar was run by an old woman who for twenty years had run a Legion brothel in Algeria before retiring to Orange after the Legion moved to mainland France . |
| 25 | A student who for any reason intends to withdraw from the University before the completion of the course of study or research must inform the Academic Registrar . |
| 26 | It is recommended that a number of SPR SSR CONTROLLER privileged users are set up to reflect the LIFESPAN user hierarchy , for example one for each project using LIFESPAN . |
| 27 | The growth of the industrial proletariat convinced him that state education for all was essential , though in 1809 he asked : ‘ What can you expect of national education conducted by a government which for twenty years resisted the abolition of the Slave Trade ? ’ |
| 28 | Apart from these preventive powers , section 5 of the 1936 Act also contained an important statutory offence which for fifty years was one of the central tools in the control of political assembly and public nonconformity . |
| 29 | The House is debating a complex Bill presented by a Government who for 12 years have said that legislation is not needed on consumer protection issues . |
| 30 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |