Example sentences of "[adj] in [pos pn] [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return of their descendants to a multitude of towns and villages between Tolpuddle and Troon could be serious in its implications for Ashes loyalties . |
| 2 | Tolson was most urgent in his request for details on Royalties and likely conditions of lease , promising none-the-less to make a start the next summer . |
| 3 | Quinn has promised to be selfish in his quest for goals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here , Parsons points out , the task of socialization may be much simpler in our culture for girls , because the role-model — the mother-is usually close at hand around the home and the daughter can imitate her behaviour much more readily . |
| 6 | And I had that in my pocket for years . |
| 7 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 8 | The thrust of government policy will be to make educational institutions more competitive in their search for pupils and students . |
| 9 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |