Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 2 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 3 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 4 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 5 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 6 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 7 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 8 | Despite the stronger US dollar in the latter part of 1992 , the average sterling price of oil realised for the year at £10.95 per barrel [ 1991 £11.00 ] was also marginally lower . |
| 9 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 10 | With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today . |
| 11 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 12 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 13 | Print enthusiasts will have to wait for the publication of David Landau and Peter Parshall 's forthcoming book on Renaissance printmaking to be published by Yale University Press next year for a full discussion of such matters . |
| 14 | And to complete the picture there is an example of an unconserved clock … but visitors may have to wait for the Museum of Scotland to see this one tick ! |
| 15 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 16 | Alloa , with a 52-0 victory over Cambuslang , and Livingston , with a 14-13 win against Linlithgow , stay in Division Four but Linlithgow will have to wait for the result of Cartha Queen 's Park 's final match before their fate is known against the already relegated Lismore . |
| 17 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 18 | Reading schemes have been heavily criticized for a range of reasons . |
| 19 | Derrida has sometimes been criticized for the generality of phrases such as ‘ the history of the West ’ or the claim that his work involves a critique of ‘ Western metaphysics ’ . |
| 20 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 21 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 22 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 23 | Dozens of street musicians have been competing for the title of Britain 's best busker . |
| 24 | Farmworkers have been competing for the title of Britain 's best ploughman , and a place in the world finals in New Zealand . |
| 25 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 26 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 28 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 29 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 30 | If a claim is received for a loss of travellers cheques then the Claimant should be advised to claim from the issuing Bank . |