Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sidney 's Defence of Poetry for instance assumes a hostile critical environment , maintaining that there are important groups who mistrust poetic fictions altogether . |
| 2 | Both appeared to be insuperable problems until the evening when Clarissa 's change of plan for the sixth or seventh time put a pattern into perspective . |
| 3 | A barter deal with Iran , which would reduce Ukraine 's reliance on Russia for fuel supplies , was announced on Jan. 29 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( The exception , proving the rule , was Brigitte Bardot 's sojourn in Dirleton for Two Weeks in September — not a conspicuous success . ) |
| 6 | For this reason , the pattern of the proliferative cells in this area of the colorectal crypt is considered to be the most discriminatory index of a subject 's level of risk for colorectal cancer . |
| 7 | The two friends left Durban in Mr Cronje 's truck on Friday for the Maputaland Marine Reserve 120 miles away . |
| 8 | Thanks to the Prime Minister 's ban on benefit for unemployed 16 and 17-year-olds , another 21,000 youngsters have been sucked into a black hole where there is no job , no school , no training and no benefit . |
| 9 | Inevitably breathless , it offer clichés instead of analysis ( unlike Gombrich 's Story of Art for example ) . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the probability that early in 1023 Thorkell the Tall was willing to accept one of Ælfgifu 's sons in exchange for his own when he and Cnut were reconciled strongly implies that the boy was openly acknowledged by Cnut . |
| 11 | At those meetings , held in New York , Denktash countered Pérez de Cuéllar 's proposals with demands for the recognition of " two peoples " , rather than separate communities within the island , as well as both peoples ' right to self-determination ; his stance brought the meetings to an end on March 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37331 ] . |
| 12 | Restoring Venice 's basilica in time for 1994 |
| 13 | DEC recently won a contract from the UK 's Ministry of Defence for servicing ICL and Olivetti kit , and has similar deals with British Telecom , Sabina in Belgium , the Swedish railway company and the Dutch PTT . |
| 14 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 15 | Bryan Gould has hired the top floor ofthe Fabian Society 's headquarters in Westminster for his leadership/deputy leadership campaign , prompting mutterings from his opponents about partisanship . |
| 16 | The demonstrators hurled abuse at councillors as they entered the region 's headquarters in Glasgow for the council 's monthly meeting . |
| 17 | The SPA officially accepted Souphanouvong 's resignation as President for " reasons of age and health " . |
| 18 | The sale , however , fell through when the hotel requested Minton 's presence in Eastbourne for a presentation connected with the painting . |
| 19 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 20 | While in Paris Klee saw and admired Cubist works at Uhde 's , and he may have known the rapidly growing Rupf collection in Berne , but he remained most impressed by Delaunay 's scientific approach to the handling of colour , which fitted in with his own ideas ; in the autumn of 1912 he translated some of Delaunay 's notes on light for the review Der Sturm . |
| 21 | The client 's experience of anxiety for each of the five trials of each target may be represented graphically as in Figure 4.11 . |
| 22 | Swan Hunter 's experience of shipbuilding for the navy makes it well placed to win a contract . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 25 | E The seller sells as beneficial owner but the transfer to the buyer shall expressly exclude the transferor 's liability under covenants for repair and decoration implied by s24(1) ( a ) of the Land Registration Act 1925 and contained in the registered lease . |
| 26 | In Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932 the House of Lords shaped a general theory of manufacturer 's liability in tort for products . |
| 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 | ‘ Incredible and somewhat offensive ’ , says Mr Thomas about the British aerobatic Team 's search for sponsorship for WAC '92 . |
| 29 | Johnnie was presented with the RNLI 's Thanks on Vellum for rescuing the Tyne pilot launch Norman Foster in a force 9 gale . |
| 30 | This has happened to some extent with dyke , a disparaging word for lesbians , and with spinster , less disparaging but still pretty negative , which is Mary Daly 's term of choice for women who refuse to accept patriarchal society , preferring to ‘ spin' their own reality . |