Which preposition to use with competence

of Occurrences 13%

Never, probably, never would that sweet be tastelesswith such a straight grim spoon was it mostly administered, and so flavored and strengthened by the competence of their eyes.

in Occurrences 12%

Oh that I were kicked out of Leadenhall with every mark of indignity, and a competence in my fob!

for Occurrences 10%

Of course there are higher criteria by which the general consent and the opinion of experts can be criticized and modified; but such criticism is not obligatory on the many who have neither leisure nor competence for the task.

to Occurrences 3%

Competence to age is supplementary youth; a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had.

by Occurrences 2%

It will start the boy in life, and with his good habits it will make him sure of a competence by and by.

as Occurrences 2%

He had amassed a modest competence as sub-contractor in the Commissariat during the second Afghan War, and retired to enjoy it in his ancestral village.

before Occurrences 2%

He himself was in a delicate position in the matter, as he was the winner, and once or twice the taunt had risen to the young man's lips, accusing the holder of the bank of the wish to retire on a competence before the break in his luck.

with Occurrences 2%

The phrase is unfortunate, for it reminds one too much of the handsome competence with which a father once claimed to have endowed his son in giving him the run of the streets since he was able to go alone.

on Occurrences 2%

If an article is to be signed, the editor will naturally seek the name of an expert of special weight and competence on the matter in hand.

without Occurrences 1%

"If the minister," says he, in one of his letters to his pupil, Lord Althorpe, "be offended at the style in which I have spoken, do speak, and will speak, of public affairs, and on that account, shall refuse to give me the judgeship, I shall not be at all mortified, having already a very decent competence without a debt, or a care of any kind."

at Occurrences 1%

Freed already from pecuniary embarrassment, he need no longer take heed for the morrow, but could with a light heart give himself up to the enjoyment of new scenes, and the business of proving to other nations the superiority of his system, secure in the knowledge that, whatever might betide him in Europe, he was assured of a competence at home.

during Occurrences 1%

Needless to say, Vergil's leisured competence during many years did not draw from such a trickling source.

into Occurrences 1%

He was by birth and education a gentleman; but partly owing to his own mismanagement and extravagance, and partly from misfortunes altogether unavoidable (though he chose to attribute his reverses wholly to the latter cause), he found himself suddenly plunged from competence into utter destitution.

out Occurrences 1%

Ah, my dear Sir, it is easy enough to despise our profession, but believe me that all the finer qualitiesthose of loyalty and of truthare essential, not only to us, but to our subordinates, if we are to succeed in making even a small competence out of it.

Which preposition to use with  competence