Example sentences of "as their [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant . |
| 2 | The course is only loosely related to the Pimlico Connection scheme , but 15 students each year choose tutoring in schools as their fieldwork for the course . |
| 3 | The conference of 1944 had to be postponed owing to the difficulties of travel , which were imposed in the spring and summer of that year when the Allied invasion forces used Britain as their base for the ‘ reentry ’ into France : it was finally held in December . |
| 4 | In addition , while they were not restricted to any one social class , they did develop a clear sense of identity , fostered by a number of distinctive badges , such as their preference for Christian names of an Old Testament origin or of their own elaborate and didactic construction , such as Sin-deny , Be-Thankful , Praise-God , and Sure-Trust . |
| 5 | EMPLOYEES at Alexandra Pottery have adopted Children In Need as their charity for 1993 . |
| 6 | Musician , Clive Conway , explains that this is the reason why they selected Richard Baker as their narrator for this concert . |
| 7 | In November 1960 the SPD , armed with policies that were designed to win power and not simply to protect doctrinal purity , chose the popular Brandt as their candidate for Chancellor in the next election . |
| 8 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 9 | Opinion surveys suggested that he would enter the election as the clear favourite against Harris Wofford , the Democrat who had been appointed by the state governor to fill the vacancy temporarily and who had been selected by the Democrats as their candidate for the forthcoming election . |
| 10 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 11 | Only nine per cent of Moxon-Browne 's survey described themselves as evangelicals , but 74.5 per cent gave ‘ fear of the power of the Roman Catholic Church ’ as their reason for being unionist . |
| 12 | Agency workers , too , were more likely to give not wanting a permanent job as their reason for working on a temporary basis . |
| 13 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 14 | Their behaviour is a very flexible result of the interaction between that knowledge and their needs , such as their need for food . |
| 15 | The mother will continue to drag the young ferrets back into the nest but eventually she gives up as their demand for fresh meat increases . |
| 16 | CUMBRIA NFU group secretaries Tom Hodgson and Rodney Coward and their office staff at Ulverston will share more than £2,000 as their reward for services ‘ beyond the call of duty ’ in helping farmers complete their IACS forms . |
| 17 | It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making . |
| 18 | Foresters of fee who held no land of the king relied on the dues they exacted from the forest inhabitants as their recompense for guarding vert and venison : the temptation to extortion was great . |