Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 2 | Table 27 indicated little enthusiasm for any alternative forms of training other than the use of video and the provision of 3 or 4 day blocks . |
| 3 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 4 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 5 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 6 | She was under a duty to use the money to pay the gas bills ( cf. Hall , where the accused was not under a duty to use that money for that holiday ) . |
| 7 | I think they could have kept that money for that purpose what they want now , not to throw it across there . |
| 8 | Alas , the Gulf crisis has created a new phrase to frustrate travellers with little patience for this abuse of the English language . |
| 9 | The latter , naturally , are unlikely to accept this interpretation of the results ; they have little sympathy for those who have performed badly due to their inherent lack of ability or inadequate preparation . |
| 10 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources . |
| 12 | Other dealers felt little sympathy for this director . |
| 13 | They held , contrary to Roman doctrine , that prayer for those already dead was ineffective ; repentance before death was all-important , as was also forgiveness of those against whom resentment had been harboured . |
| 14 | Having no steady work means Texas has little money for such luxuries , anyway . |
| 15 | Indeed , I was especially delighted that we won that contract for this country . |
| 16 | If there is low correspondence between the actual missing words and the predictions , then the readability of that text for that particular readership is low . |
| 17 | Sensitivity , specificity , and accuracy were calculated for each finding for each age group . |
| 18 | By the end of the nineteenth century it was fairly obvious that the dialogue was not materializing , as the social and political events of the 1880s had made clear , and the employers ' counter-attack on trade unions in the 1890s gave little hope for any kind of reconciliation . |
| 19 | Yet , apart from a few family friends , there was little support for such views . |
| 20 | Whatever the reason , however , our examination of the evidence gives little support for either thesis . |
| 21 | The Royal Commission evidence provides a little support for this view . |
| 22 | I tell you I can break this bond , and maybe I will this time and leave you to starve , and maybe I wo n't , maybe I 'll leave that pleasure for another time . |
| 23 | Each ceremony for each child requires a new set of godparents so , as most Latin American couples have many children , there are numerous opportunities for establishing new sets of compadres . |
| 24 | They gained weight , and may have stayed at that weight for some time . |
| 25 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 26 | Hopeless romantics , Sox fans come back each Spring for more , but by the time of this Orioles game last year were already conceding that the 1991 team was not one on which to pin their perennial dreams . |
| 27 | For text input some shape recognisers produce a single character candidate for each possible character , whereas others produce a string of alternative character candidates with an associated weight for each alternative for each possible character . |
| 28 | The tendency of the courts , and the thrust of Gould 's argument , is to regard misconstruction of many of these terms as errors of law , the effect being that the court well substitute its view of that term for that of the tribunal . |
| 29 | Presented in base alphabetical order , it ranges from Abingdon to Wyton , with a detailed history of each aircraft for each gate , along with photographs of the aircraft whilst in service and/or in its position on the gate . |
| 30 | National unions exist in each industry for each of several main confederations ( national groupings of trade unions ) , including the communist-oriented CGT , the socialist CGT-FO and the radical ( originally Catholic but now secular ) CFDT . |