Example sentences of "their [noun sg] for [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It pledges their support for efforts to protect the Stockton Darlington Railway Line . |
| 2 | Green parties in Belgium have obtained government promises to introduce environmental taxes in return for their support for measures to introduce a new federal constitution . |
| 3 | Setting their course for harbours dim and far , |
| 4 | CAMPAIGNERS for Scottish devolution received little comfort from Bruce Millan , the European commissioner for regional policy , yesterday in their fight for subsidiarity to apply to Scotland . |
| 5 | Their case for arboreality rests largely on Lucy 's long , curved and heavily muscled hands and feet which suggest grasping . |
| 6 | The water authorities have not ruled out the possibility of flooding large Parts of the Dales , however , and , ever greedier in their search for uplands to despoil and destroy , will have to be watched carefully . |
| 7 | Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides . |
| 8 | Public transport timetables should be examined to estimate their adequacy for staff travel in the light of the knowledge gained on where staff are domiciled and the early and late evening shift changes . |
| 9 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |
| 10 | Wimbledon 's large delegation shows their determination for Jones to get off a playing ban . |
| 11 | As more and more nations have become industrialised , their need for energy to run machines and cars , and to heat homes has increased . |
| 12 | It would be much more constructive for a consortium of donors to sit down with governments and review their need for aid finance over , say , the next three-year period . |
| 13 | Despite initial SPD threats to block ratification , SPD leaders said on March 9 that their desire for improvements did not preclude approval of the treaty . |
| 14 | Their desire for re-election forces them to adopt strategies in which they are highly sensitive to pressure groups . |
| 15 | Compounded by their own unconscious survival strategy , their room for manoeuvre appears to shrink until it vanishes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To be mutually consistent the constrained demand for goods must ration firms in a manner that restricts their demand for labour to give rise to the initial constrained demand for goods . |
| 19 | In that year a regional office was opened in Newcastle , providing easier access to their ground for staff working in north-east England . |
| 20 | In our explorations , ostensibly in search of good compositions to sketch , we often came upon the nuns : a solitary sister on her knees in front of a grotto , a nervous magpie secreting days off purgatory , would fly up ; a group of novices , disturbed roller-skating or playing the guitar , would look to their novice-mistress for permission to accept a boiled sweet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Their preference for cleanliness extends to a marked dislike of the chemicals that we may choose to chuck in . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Members admitted on or after 1 July 1978 are required to submit , with their application for entitlement to practise , a detailed record of the CPE undertaken during their 24 months of Approved Practical Experience . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is true that there were bankers but their reputation for unpleasantness encouraged the popes to turn elsewhere for loans . |
| 29 | Twelve people felt that their acceptance for training had been strongly influenced by one of these two factors . |
| 30 | I mean people travel from all over the world to be with their family for Passover did n't they . |