Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 2 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 3 | A meeting at the House of Commons between Maxton , Brockway , Campbell Stephen and McGovern of the ILP , and Pollitt , Gallacher , Kerrigan and Springhall of the Communist Party , laid down conditions for the continuance of the United Front . |
| 4 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 5 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 6 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 8 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 9 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 10 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 11 | Suggestions have been made too that WEN and TV 's World In Action were somehow mistaken in their studies or misinterpreted their test results , even though World In Action 's tests were undertaken by RECHEM , researchers who have carried out tests for the industry itself . |
| 12 | The market system holds out opportunities for the peasant , but it also makes his situation more precarious . |
| 13 | Shell , recently fined over £1m for an oil spillage , got into more trouble . |
| 14 | FA Cup Final fever may be dissipating but excitement is only just beginning to mount over plans for a croquet centre of excellence . |
| 15 | Yes , yes Erm one once you 've done that if you could give in diaries for the day and then your time is your own . |
| 16 | At this point it becomes impossible to determine in what exact sequence events happen but essentially computer memory dropped below $1,000 for a megabyte which allowed a complete page of A4 paper to be created in memory at 300 dots per inch . |
| 17 | As the advert said , ‘ The average price of a tab of Ecstasy is £15 — yet Love Hearts cost only £4.95 for a packet of three — just one tenth of the designer drug equivalent . ’ |
| 18 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 19 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 20 | Taxi rides are cheapest in Portugal , where the cabbies charge only 18p for a one-mile city trip . |
| 21 | UNLIKE those rich enough to set aside assets for a period of years in order to avoid tax , those dependent on income — particularly those subject to Pay As You Earn — have limited scope to fend off the taxman . |
| 22 | Then Maxham waved a square , clean hand , brushing aside Tolby for the time being . |
| 23 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 24 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 25 | As they are used single-handed , they make it easier to dead-head flowers , prune shrubs , cut up chicken for the barbecue , and shape materials like leather , canvas , etc , for craftwork . |
| 26 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 27 | They thought that it might be excusable to exploit situations to promote the individual MP 's career within his own party or to look after constituency interests , but it was quite inexcusable to open up opportunities for the Opposition to criticize the government . |
| 28 | Dave Morpfee again impressed as he bagged 3–33 to set up Bangor for a response of 111–5 , Hefin Lewis , Andy Savage and John Parry all scoring 23 as Ruthin 's John James pocketed 4–29 . |
| 29 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 30 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |