Example sentences of "[adv] of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |
| 2 | But for the rest of spoken language , our neo-cortex is heavily involved , with strong evidence furthermore of lateralisation for speech even as early as birth . |
| 3 | He is incredulous when she says that some people might think better of Jason for confessing his fear . |
| 4 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 5 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 6 | If you do it through A B S A , the government will give another ten thousand pounds so of course for the orchestra or the institution whether it 's opera , ballet , concert or whatever is , but it must be arts gets the extra money so of course that in a sense is very enabling . |
| 7 | What really disturbed the Under-Secretary was the report he had received two days ago about the smuggling in of arms for this new Volunteer army . |
| 8 | Parsytec reckons it is ideal for bank , insurance , legal , database and government operations where it can be used to automate the keying in of information for processing , archival and retrieval . |
| 9 | This implies an average 387 days less of life for inhabitants of the indebted countries . |
| 10 | Sir Keith Thomas PBA , then President-elect of the British Academy , in his opening remarks mused that he was surprised to hear only of plans for printed publication of the contributions . |
| 11 | On her properties she usually thought only of leasehold for the most superior housing , as at Alderley Edge , where the houses had between one and five acres each . |
| 12 | Pictures of the chairman ten years ago or the old plant before the renovations are only of interest for the company history and are definitely not for current use . |
| 13 | The SSA would particularly like to thank Crispin On of Dulwich for his fine efforts in organising the squash competition . |
| 14 | Here , we move to a further degree of abstraction , since things are no longer of interest for some essence they may possess but for their exchangeable aspects . |
| 15 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 16 | HRT is also of benefit for the intermediate symptoms of the menopause , those that do not appear until some time after periods have stopped but which tend to get more noticeable and troublesome as the years go by . |
| 17 | The normal unit of transfer , and therefore also of work for the lexicographers , consists of the current versions of all active entries in one table in the archive . |
| 18 | but also of course for the way in which he always put it . |
| 19 | The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser . |
| 20 | But the appeal is also of importance for the future of the law of restitution , since the decision of your Lordships ' House could have a profound effect upon the structure of this part of our law . |
| 21 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 22 | Thirdly , a possible source of increased prices lies in the dividing up of services for the purpose of contracting . |
| 23 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 24 | His treatment was informal and impressionistic , depending on entertaining anecdotes , skilful use of quotation , and the dextrous building up of incidents for its effect . |
| 25 | Conflict about assessment at Key Stage 4 and about equivalence with GCSE ultimately led to the giving up of proposals for double testing . |
| 26 | Corporate lawyers are well versed in the marking up of documents for reading so it is quite useful to arrange for a junior member of the lawyer team to undertake the initial mark up . |
| 27 | Given Russia 's high latitudinal position , her short farming season , low productivity , absence of markets , and scant incentives for yield improvement in the late Tsarist period and until the advent of NEP , the natural result was a strong peasant urge to supplement agricultural income by promysly ( craft industries ) , one of which was the production and working up of flax for the kustarnyi industry . |
| 28 | Take correcting and the locking up of formes for instance : Margaret Irwin regarded women as precluded from some of these tasks by physical incapacity . |
| 29 | There will be a body of enacted legislation , a pattern of grants from central government , a range of procedures relating to the sanctioning of new initiatives including the taking up of loans for new capital expenditure , perhaps a pattern of inspection or policy review , and a variety of policy expectations enshrined in circulars and related messages from the centre . |
| 30 | Non-randomised cohort study with follow up of subjects for up to 23 years . |