Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 2 | ‘ Out of my mind for wanting a traitorous little witch like you . |
| 3 | I felt so proud of my father for having been such a fine craftsman . |
| 4 | While FLOWERED UP were in the process of getting kicked out of their hotel for spraying the porters with fire extinguishers , Bez was safe in his room making a four-hour phone call to his missus and the very adorable new addition to his family , baby son ARLO . |
| 5 | The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme . |
| 6 | Although visual system physiologists treat the monkey as the model system of their choice for studying the visual cortex , a surprising amount of useful data has been gathered using cats as subjects , despite the known anatomical differences between cats and monkeys . |
| 7 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 8 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 9 | Unlike the UK , where the Court on declaring an agreement " contrary to the public interest " then has little power to impose effective penalties against offending firms , the Commission has considerable powers of enforcement and can fine firms up to 10 per cent of their turnover for operating an anti- competitive practice . |
| 10 | It was attracted to the Griffiths proposals because of their potential for promoting private services , but it went against the grain to leave local authorities with so much power , and it was this dilemma which caused the considerable delay in the government 's response to Griffiths . |
| 11 | In consequence , the burgeoning nineteenth-century penal and criminal justice system was aimed at these socially ‘ dangerous classes ’ simply because of their potential for contesting the power of the state and those in control . |
| 12 | THE LABOUR leadership suffered an embarrassing rebuff when lesbian and gay rights activists won a conference endorsement of their demand for cutting the age of homosexual consent from 21 to 16 . |
| 13 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 14 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 15 | Chester , in particular , is making loud noises about converting some of its greenbelt for housing and light industry . |
| 16 | ‘ Brazilian business is aware of its reputation for destroying rainforests and for social injustice . |
| 17 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 18 | So it is no wonder that the CEGB has responded by publishing an unprecedentedly large volume of material in support of its case for building a PWR at Sizewell . |
| 19 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 20 | Firstly , the development of the Anglo-American civil aviation relationship in the troubled context of the 1980s and early 1990s will be explored and some assessment of its importance for determining the character of the world 's overall aviation system will be given . |
| 21 | It was May 's enthusiasm for pottery , which he communicated by publication , and Bushe-Fox 's perception of its importance for dating deposits that helped towards the artefact-orientated reports so common in that first half of this century . |
| 22 | The size of the " yes " vote surprised both the National Party ( NP ) government , which was seeking a renewal of its mandate for negotiating a political settlement with anti-apartheid organizations , and the Conservative Party ( CP ) which led the " no " campaign . |
| 23 | We had , we had a house matron as well but anyway she was kicked out of her school for sleeping with all the sixth form blokes . |
| 24 | As well as working in the parish , Mrs Sumner was very conscious of her responsibility for training her children and creating a Christian home . |
| 25 | Mrs Blanchard 's already told Mr Coombs of her plan for reducing the budget deficit . |
| 26 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 27 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 28 | That had certainly been part of her reason for slipping away . |
| 29 | The court had been told that the boys made up stories after the accused had thrown them out of his home for stealing cigarettes . |
| 30 | Letter from Vial to the Odiham Society , to whom he had sent 10 copies of his plan for forming a veterinary college . |