Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
2 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
3 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
4 | The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age . |
5 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
6 | Wenner ditched the piece for the American edition . |
7 | We can only presume the allocation for the current financial year is the first element of a rapidly expanding budget over the full five years of the scheme . |
8 | And they said we 're not naming the home for the elderly that will probably be closed . |
9 | In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts . |
10 | Mr Milburn has contacted Durham County Council to explain the situation and push the case for the local people in the hope the council may subsidise the route . |
11 | An Alton rider also shared the award for the fastest composite team , with M. Tuero of Alton CC and M. Sparkes and Antelope Racing recording 53 mins. 04 . |
12 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
13 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
14 | The somewhat carefree atmosphere of this event was dampened a few months later when the Electricity Board 's contractors prepared to start work on levelling the ground for the new power station . |
15 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
16 | He had a full scrip of the small white flowers when he made the journey for the seventh time , and saw the three riders pace in at the gatehouse , and stood unobserved to watch Tutilo dismount , part amicably from his guards , and come wearily towards the gatehouse door , as if he would himself take the key and deliver himself dutifully back to his captivity . |
17 | Mark Hateley scored the first and made the second for the prolific Ally McCoist to deliver the riches of the Champions ' League into the already bulging coffers of the Glasgow club . |
18 | Englishman Robert Hynam made the clock for the Russian Court at St Petersburg in 1760 . |
19 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
20 | When using the machine for the first time , the manufacturers advise that the machine should be filled to capacity and then emptied , before re-filling and stripping . |
21 | The structure was solved by molecular replacement using the model for the HyHel-10 Fab/lysozyme complex ( Brookhaven ; accession number 3HFM ) with the lysozyme coordinates removed . |
22 | He lowered the threshold for the highest rate of income tax in real terms , but otherwise the budget hardly changed the income-tax system . |
23 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
24 | She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring . |
25 | The team as a whole was given the responsibility for the whole task and for assigning individuals to particular jobs . |
26 | Although Wright was missed by Gooch , low down at third slip off DeFreitas when 3 , the serious stuff began only when Tufnell was given the ball for the 26th over . |
27 | The text as structured above should be capable of generating the typography for the New OED . |
28 | Polybius paved the way for the other Greek intellectuals who accepted Roman rule and collaborated with it . |
29 | The changing face of football , from top : ‘ A shot from Bobby Charlton erupts out of elegance , ’ said Arthur Hopcraft ; Keegan and Lineker paved the way for the cash-rich super league ; this summer Candy-sponsored Liverpool paid more than £5 million for Mark Wright , left , and Dean Saunders |
30 | Interestingly , although neoclassicism allowed individual differences to influence punishments on the grounds of justice , in doing so it paved the way for the later , positivist conception of the causes and treatment of crime . |