Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably breathless , it offer clichés instead of analysis ( unlike Gombrich 's Story of Art for example ) .
2 For Celtic and Macari , a vital game tomorrow in advance of Tuesday 's flight to Lisbon for the second leg UEFA Cup tie .
3 ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education .
4 On Feb. 3 the LDP received a further boost , when one of the wings of the divided Nacionalista Party ( NP ) , that led by Senator Juan Ponce Enrile ( Defence Secretary under former President Ferdinand Marcos , and until Feb. 3 a candidate in his own right ) and former Senator Arturo Tolentino , announced that it would join a coalition with the LDP , in exchange for places in the LDP 's slates of candidates for the congressional and local elections .
5 That left Berger well ahead of Schumacher with Brundle a distant third , Alesi fourth , Thierry Boutsen 's Ligier-Renault fifth and Stefano Modena 's Jordan-Yamaha on course for the team 's only point this season .
6 The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War .
7 Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister .
8 The graph below shows Mr Richard 's sales of bananas for the week .
9 That exposure to extreme communism , which included Stalin dispatching Fred Koch 's chauffeur to Siberia for becoming infected by Western ideas , prompted Koch 's father to swing to rabid right-wing beliefs .
10 In the spring Petrakis 's survey of sexuality for It revealed , amidst a cluster of curious statements , that ‘ it is true to say that homosexuals are neurotic ’ .
11 But at £3.75 for eight ( 47p each ) they certainly should taste delicious — as should the pies which won second-place , Harrods ' own-brand at £6.50 for 12 ( 54p each ) .
12 While the agreement with the Ringaskiddy residents that they would allow interim dumping of Raybestos ' waste in return for a future advance factory provided a short-term solution for the current crisis , a final solution was needed for the toxic waste produced in Cork .
13 A barter deal with Iran , which would reduce Ukraine 's reliance on Russia for fuel supplies , was announced on Jan. 29 .
14 Studying industry and industrial working conditions provided Schinkel 's diary with room for drawings of canals and mills in Manchester as well as bridges throughout the land .
15 Alpha Gamma 's offer of 372p per share for 57 per cent of the group is backed by Meat Trade 's board unlike Twigrealm 's offer of 350p for the whole company .
16 When he resumed his post in Gould 's employment in preparation for the expedition to Australia , it was in a position of marked subservience .
17 Sidney 's Defence of Poetry for instance assumes a hostile critical environment , maintaining that there are important groups who mistrust poetic fictions altogether .
18 The two main obstacles to the normalization of relations were identified as Japan 's demand that North Korea allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and North Korea 's insistence on compensation for alleged Japanese hostility over the previous 70 years .
19 The two sides also discussed North Korea 's claim for compensation for Japan 's 1910-1945 colonial rule ; Japanese wives in Korea ; and high-level North-South Korean dialogue .
20 English ports and the Bayonnais together provided ships in which Bordeaux 's wine was carried , and England 's reliance on Aquitaine for wine — for both liturgical and secular consumption — helped to give birth to an English mercantile marine .
21 In addition , it believes Encina could have quite conceivably gone on to the ES/9000 mainframe instead of Tuxedo , but thinks IBM 's deal with USL for that technology is effectively a spoiler for Amdahl Corp 's Tuxedo TP system offering on its IBM-compatible Unix mainframes .
22 Japanese barter the restoration of Urbino 's walls in exchange for a Raphael exhibition
23 Perhaps even more significant for the future , Anselm also told Lanfranc that he had heard about Dunstan 's rule of life for monks : would Lanfranc please send it to him ?
24 The starting point for more realistic guesses is Russia 's balance of payments for 1992 .
25 ‘ It 's a fine idea , ’ Thomas said to her , expounding it to himself and meantime walking around Simon 's cottage with resentment for every stone of the place .
26 The office bearers of the Federation of Publishers ' & Booksellers ' Association in India for 1992/93 are : president — A Machwe ( Wiley Eastern ) ; vice-presidents — Mazharul Ishlam ( Publishers ' & Booksellers ' Association of Bengal ) ; B R Chawla ( Heritage Publishers ) ; R Seshadri ( The Booksellers & Publishers Association of South India ) ; Chandra Pal Gupta ( Bombay Booksellers & Publishers Association ) ; secretary — S C Sethi ( Jaico Publishing House ) ; treasurer — Inderjeet Singh ( Panima Educational Book Agency ) .
27 Indeed , utilitarianism and Kant 's ethic of duty for duty 's sake are usually seen as the two great extremes of moral theory , the line between them representing a continuum on which most moral philosophies with a positive theory of what is right and wrong can be placed .
28 The sale , however , fell through when the hotel requested Minton 's presence in Eastbourne for a presentation connected with the painting .
29 ( The exception , proving the rule , was Brigitte Bardot 's sojourn in Dirleton for Two Weeks in September — not a conspicuous success . )
30 SIMON BROWN , of Rodier Hommes at The A1 Galleria : ‘ Rodier 's use of colour for menswear prompts most comment . ’
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