Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the ninth century a struggle developed for the souls of the Slavs between the two Christian confessions , the Eastern Church based in Byzantium and the Western Church based in Rome . |
| 2 | The judge , asked to decide as a preliminary point when the cause of action accrued for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 held that it arose on completion of the works required by the notices . |
| 3 | We said goodbye to Ned again and headed north from Queenstown back towards Christchurch , staying overnight at Ruataniwha in huts built for the workers at Twizel dam . |
| 4 | He was scornful , too , of the humanitarian-aid programme run for the contras by the State Department through the NHAO , which Owen familiarly called the ‘ no-way , no-how ’ and the ‘ no-hope programme ’ ; the State Department itself turned up on local code-sheets as ‘ wimps ’ , the CIA as ‘ assholes ’ , the portly Shultz as ‘ Nancy ’ . |
| 5 | It is difficult to compare the relatively large destabilising effect observed for the octamers in this study , to the smaller effect noted when single d3CA residues were incorporated into the d(GACGATATCGTC) 2 duplex , since the T m measurements were not performed at the same pH ( 4 ) . |
| 6 | The partnership practice ceased for the purposes of para 4 , Sch 9 , FA 1981 since , following the dissolution of the partnership , the two offices were operated separately . |
| 7 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 8 | In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced . |
| 9 | The strategies adopted for the closures of Powick , Banstead and Exminster were at once puzzling in their diversity . |
| 10 | Major claims have ben made for the benefits of the National Curriculum but much concern has also been expressed at possible negative effects on schools and children . |
| 11 | After washing , cleaning , packing and breakfast , the companies departed for the ranges in four-tonne trucks : like most of the infantry , we fight on our feet , but generally travel in vehicles . |
| 12 | A special meeting of Warrington Borough Council 's emergency committee called for the cylinders to be removed to give local residents peace of mind . |
| 13 | ‘ Plan no. 1 ’ , at a scale of 1 inch to 44 feet ( 1:528 ) , showed the site designated for the offices as a block between Downing Street and Charles Street , and Duke Street and King Street , within a larger area shown for the block plan . |
| 14 | It contains samples of all Stoddard Templeton ranges and was custom built for the purposes of branding the name effectively from all angles . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 16 | Section 10(3) ( b ) goes further : ( b ) any failure to do more in relation to any matter than is required by — ( i ) any safety regulations imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( ii ) any standards if safety approved for the purposes of this subsection by or under any such regulations and imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( iii ) any provision of any enactment or subordinate legislation imposing such requirements with respect to that matter as are designated for the purposes of this subsection by any such regulations . |
| 17 | A registered student may be excused enrolment for part of his course of study or research following his election or appointment to office in any representative student body approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Senate , and a student so excused shall remain a registered student for as long as may be approved by the Senate . |
| 18 | It concludes — you want a quote from a famous person — ‘ In his decision letter of the sixth of September , the Secretary of State for Energy accepted this recommendation , ’ that is , that the figures are quoted in kilogrammes per stations with appropriate error bands specified for the quantities per station |
| 19 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) In this section ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ includes any procedure undertaken for the purposes of diagnosis , and this section applies to any procedure ( including , in particular , the administration of an anaesthetic ) which is ancillary to any treatment as it applies to that treatment . |
| 21 | Predictions made for the proportions of various elements in the early universe were therefore rather inaccurate , but these calculations have been repeated in the light of better knowledge and now agree very well with what we observe . |
| 22 | These methods have also been used by PROPE in the memoranda of evidence prepared for the enquiries of the House of Commons Select Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service . |
| 23 | ‘ In any proceedings ( whether or not under this Act ) — ( a ) a statement of affairs prepared for the purposes of any provision of this Act which is derived from the Insolvency Act 1985 , and ( b ) any other statement made in pursuance of a requirement imposed by or under any such provision or by or under rules made under this Act , may be used in evidence against any person making or concurring in making the statement . |
| 24 | Mr Jefferson retired from his post as Naafi produce buyer in 1976 ; his wife worked for the railways during the war . |
| 25 | A similar state of affairs obtained for the coinages of Sasanian Persia and medieval England , neither of which issued any significant copper coinage or small silver coins in any quantity . |
| 26 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 27 | These involve action by diplomatic or consular agents ( presumably of the state of origin , though this is not made clear in the text ) , by the Central Authority designated for the purposes of the convention in either the state of origin or that of destination , by ‘ the interested parties ’ , or ‘ through judicial channels ’ . |
| 28 | Generalization to both test stimuli thus has its origin in a common source ( the associative strength acquired by stimulus A during aversive conditioning ) , eliminating the possibility , inherent in the between-group comparison made for the results in Fig. 5.6 , that differences in the associative strength of stimulus A might be responsible for the outcome . |
| 29 | Specifically , the Commissioner has three functions : ( a ) to keep under review the carrying out by the Home Secretary of the functions conferred upon him or her by the Act ; ( b ) to keep under review the adequacy of any arrangements made for the purposes of restricting the use and distribution of the intercepted material ; ( c ) to give the Tribunal all such assistance as the Tribunal may require for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its statutory functions . |
| 30 | A change of greenbelt status , and changes to a proposed greenbelt boundary variously affecting the combined area known for the purposes of this enquiry as D thirty nine and D forty , north of Skelton Village , have been proposed in the deposit copies , and in the desire to change proposed by the county and local planning authorities , and sundry valid representations have been lodged relating to the exclusion of all or parts of the area of the greenbelt . |