Example sentences of "for [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
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| 3 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 4 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 5 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 6 | The most important is Domesday Book , the great survey compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086 . |
| 7 | An entrance scholarship of £200 per annum tenable for three years is awarded each year on the basis of a selection examination ; the Mackey Entrance Scholarship for pianists is open for award every third or fourth year at the value of £200 per annum for three years , as is the James Smart Entrance Scholarship for organists . |
| 8 | The Ledingham-Smiths did not pay the £5,000 a week as required , but did continue the banker 's order for £1,000 a month . |
| 9 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 10 | For Nizan the originality of the contemporary period , however , is that history has violently entered the arena and fractured the classical mould- The non-reflective , naturally ordained existence of the classical period has been ruptured . |
| 11 | For Nizan the moral strength afforded the writer by revolutionary ideology eliminates the need for self-justification within the ethos of his work , eliminates the need to apologise for failing to conform not only to the conventions of bourgeois political structures , but also to the conventions of bourgeois literary structures . |
| 12 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 13 | The difference is only that for postverbals the property complex qualifies the E ( and in surface terms we have an intransitive verb phrase ) , while with adverbals the property complex is qualified by the E ( in surface terms , a transitive verb phrase ) . |
| 14 | When returning the draft Contract to me duly signed will you let me have a cheque in favour of Messrs. Stanley Tee & Co. for £2,600 the 5% deposit and I will place this on deposit with my firm 's bankers so that it does not lose you interest , so there should be no delay in exchanging contracts once you have received the insurance company 's acceptance of your life proposals . |
| 15 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 16 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 17 | Political opposition and delays in agreeing upon its plan have forced a Japanese robotics maker , Fanuc , to withdraw its offer to buy for $10m a 40% stake in Moore Special Tool . |
| 18 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 19 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 20 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 21 | His early pupils practised for hours every Saturday afternoon amongst the bales of cotton in one of the firm 's warehouses . |
| 22 | ( If you find yourself meditating for hours every day , perhaps you should ask whether you are avoiding other aspects of your life . ) |
| 23 | They pump iron for hours every morning . |
| 24 | These were the occasions which enabled them to display for hours the rigid immobility for which they were famous throughout Europe . |
| 25 | For hours the magician swam around , with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder . |
| 26 | For hours the planet had grown no larger in Miles Engado 's faceplate ; seeming instead to retreat as he fell towards it . |
| 27 | For hours the dark , dry |
| 28 | Out of costume , he wore Lucie 's cut-down clothes , and would watch for hours the barons of raw meat swing and drip , swing and drip , over wood planks dyed permanently blood-red . |
| 29 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 30 | ‘ The task of preparing for freedom the races which can not as yet govern themselves ’ , he wrote , ‘ is the supreme duty of those who can . |