Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 2 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 3 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 4 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 5 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 6 | It is the biggest manufacturer of mechanical engineering products in the EC with 44% of the total output — a disproportionate share as Germany only accounts for a quarter of total EC output . |
| 7 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 8 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 9 | Which left Rex somewhat stuck for a reply . |
| 10 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 11 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |
| 12 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 13 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 14 | Last week , when drafts of the latest NIH report began to circulate , Dr Baltimore finally asked for the Cell paper to be retracted . |
| 15 | And I says let us see , and she 's and I says now keep back and I rung Don and explained and the doctor said Jean just ring for an ambulance . |
| 16 | The pegs were plentiful , but F not needed for a pull , and as I swept my feet from left to right across the wall on little orange nubbins and small edges below good fingerlocks , in a thin , horizontal crack , I wished it could go on and on . |
| 17 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 18 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 19 | She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane . |
| 20 | The nationalization programme quickly accounted for the Bank of England ( May 1946 ) , coal ( January 1947 ) , electricity ( April 1948 ) , gas and railways ( both May 1948 ) . |
| 21 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 22 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 23 | MALCOLM CROSBY yesterday called for a halt to the head-hunting season at Sunderland . |
| 24 | Alesi , thrilling the sparse crowd with his aggressive style , was third fastest in a car specially equipped for the session with new Ferrari V12 engines . |
| 25 | It must be one of the funniest speeches ever written for an actress , and needs a bubbly , light touch . |
| 26 | Five thousand stood outside , in the Place d'Armes , listening to the service on speakers specially rigged for the occasion . |
| 27 | In trusts , however , it has been widely maintained that intention always counted for a lot more than words . |
| 28 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 29 | Delays brought about by the teachers ’ industrial action in the summer of 1984 and normal staff turnover probably account for the remainder . |
| 30 | Mr Purtill also posed for a picture with Mr Major , managing to rustle up a sheepish grin . |