Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen months later , Thomas is making a good recovery , though he can not be diagnosed as being clear of leukaemia for another three years . |
| 2 | Thereafter Hooley steered clear of companies for some time , concentrating on land deals . |
| 3 | If I were you , sir , I 'd keep clear of Washington for some little time , by which I mean the rest of your life . ’ |
| 4 | We append here some useful theorems and definitions : Theorem 1 — The reciprocal of the transpose of a matrix A is equal to the transpose of the reciprocal of A. For |
| 5 | They were among four Russian boys who travelled to Westonbirt school near Tetbury to meet two Russian girl orphans , who 'll be educated free of change for a year . |
| 6 | He had known an Irishman with similar hands ; hands that had seemed to perform as separate entities from the man himself ; acting on his behalf yet leaving his conscience free of responsibility for their actions . |
| 7 | But your ground , I imagine you 've kept it fairly cre , free of weeds for quite a |
| 8 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 9 | Great longing sets the mind free of concern for trivialities . |
| 10 | For families in the twentieth century , not only is middle age largely free of care for children , but old age is lengthened by an increased expectation of life . |
| 11 | It has built empty factories which it lets out free of rent for up to five years . |
| 12 | On the foregoing conditions the Goldsmiths ' Company will grant to the Corporation a lease of the School Buildings and Land connected therewith free of rent for 999 years , and will give them a perpetual endowment of £290 per annum in addition to the sum of £10 which they are bound to pay under the will of Sir Edmond Shaa ; but the Lease and the Endowment Grant shall contain clauses giving the Goldsmiths ' Company the right of re-entry in the one case and making the annuity to cease in the other on breach of any or either of the conditions above named . " |
| 13 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 14 | The highways were kept free of traffic for four-and-a-half hours until the last straggler finished . |
| 15 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
| 16 | Julia had been free of pain for many months , but still she had grown weaker . |
| 17 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 18 | The farm has been open to the public free of charge for about five years , though groups pay a small charge . |
| 19 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 20 | For any chartered accountant interested in the package , Aldercare is offering the package free of charge for a 30-day trial . |
| 21 | All you have to do is call free of charge for details of your local Citroën dealer and arrange to take your test drive before 31st December 1990 . |
| 22 | XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis . |
| 23 | The latest initiative is the Livingston Software Innovation Centre — this is the only organisation in Europe that aims to remove the hassles plaguing start-up companies , by providing them with ‘ a nice roof over their heads ’ free of charge for the vital six months to a year before they start making money . |
| 24 | The obligation to provide free school milk and to provide school meals was removed , allowing LEAs to provide milk or meals or not as they wished , at whatever cost or standard they chose ( including free milk or meals , if they wished , for families on low incomes ) , apart from a responsibility to provide free meals for children of families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement , and to provide facilities free of charge for pupils to eat food brought from home . |
| 25 | Advice centres , CABx and council departments will be supplied with a list free of charge for their area . |
| 26 | Textbooks published by the Institute/Faculty are available to tutors free of charge for the subject in which they are tutoring on application to the office of the Education Service . |
| 27 | We have also taken the opportunity in the Bill to provide for water to be supplied free of charge for fire training purposes and for other emergency purposes as well as fire fighting . |
| 28 | In addition to the reduced Sports Council grant we have now been informed that facilities we have been able to use free of charge for QT Days would in future cost £210 for six hours , the maximum permissible time . |
| 29 | She stood beside him , lost , and bereft of comfort for him . |
| 30 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |