Example sentences of "[noun] for [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The SQQ for the Monday to Thursday period ended 29 october was calculated at 73.51p per kg lw , which represents a fall of 0.79p compared with the corresponding period last week . |
2 | Two people are awaiting trial in connection with the attack , but 5 others , including Howard Banton , chief clerk for a firm of solicitors in the town , have appeared in court at Cheltenham , accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by plotting to persuade a witness to withdraw a statement . |
3 | By the time his original classification as a ‘ contested registration ’ was rescinded there were no vacancies for the hard-hitter from Keighley , and he was compelled to settle for league cricket and Minor Counties appearances for Cumberland . |
4 | 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question . |
5 | Clearly , however , the needs we have identified at Stirling for the transmission of documents , images and so on are also arising at other sites — and between sites as well . |
6 | ‘ I would urge the RUC to take every appropriate step to ensure the maximum degree of protection for every citizen of Belfast , ’ the south Belfast councillor added . |
7 | ‘ Designer ’ black became the epitome of good taste : a defence against true style and protection for a multitude of sins . |
8 | And the motion by Councillor Jack Newell went further … also demanding protection for the families of murder victims . |
9 | It was one of CI5 's many ‘ dirty tasks ’ to afford protection for the lives of exiles , visitors from repressive Governments , and the representatives of Governments with which Britain maintained the most reluctant and tenuous of diplomatic relations . |
10 | The legal system should also provide adequate protection for the exercise of citizenship rights , and here there are questions as to whether the present system under which civil liberties are residual rather than rights is adequate . |
11 | The " offer of amends " would be a valuable protection for the media in cases of unintentional defamation , were it not encumbered by what the Faulks Committee described as " expensive rigmarole " — a procedure which requires the swearing of a detailed affidavit about how the confusion arose , which must be served at the same time as the offer of amends . |
12 | LAB were happy to make a special grant for a fridge for Doris so she does n't have to shop so often . |
13 | Cuts of £2.9 million to the specific grant for the development of AIDS services may seriously restrict SSDs ' ability to respond to HIV/AIDS cases from next week . |
14 | Yet the clutch of Highers and then the Ordinary MA with which I eventually emerged turned out to be a pretty useful preparation for a life in journalism . |
15 | And those Games are in preparation for a trip to Spain for the Junior European Championships in July . |
16 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
17 | Some observers interpreted this as a manoeuvre in preparation for a shift in Kadhafi 's position on the extraditions . |
18 | In England in the early part of the eighteenth century the crown occasionally gave some help , in a haphazard way , to suitable young would-be diplomats to travel in preparation for a career in government service . |
19 | I 've stayed at my desk until half past seven , writing up the minutes of our meeting at the Treasury — even doing a little preparation for a series of consultations I have to begin tomorrow in connection with the Annual Assessment . |
20 | The Paris talks were in preparation for a meeting in September of the so-called " Paris Club " of creditor countries . |
21 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
22 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
23 | The students compete in the British Universities championships from Monday to Wednesday then Jenny will don her coach 's cap to take the British Select for a training session in preparation for the tour of Barbados . |
24 | Taylor has been helped a great deal in the six weeks of preparation for the tour by England 's last great left-arm fast-bowler , John ‘ J.K. ’ Lever and the team 's new top bowling coach , Geoff Arnold . |
25 | This is felt to be an inadequate preparation for the work of life , because it tends to produce a super-abundant supply of an indifferent clerkly class and to create and foster a distaste for agriculture and the handicrafts , which are more indispensable to the country and are better calculated to promote independence of character . |
26 | Ephesians 4:30 tells us that the Spirit seals us in preparation for the day of redemption : the ‘ already ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ are united in that phrase To speak of a ‘ firstfruits ’ inevitably takes one 's eyes to the ‘ not yet ’ ( and this is made explicit in Romans 8:23 ) . |
27 | When the Chinese made their first attempt , in preparation for the invasion of Indo-China , to bring the various Vietnamese factions together and create a Vietnamese Revolutionary League ( abbreviated to Dong Minh Hoi ) members of the ICP were specifically excluded . |
28 | I also spoke at various military and RAF centres to tell men in preparation for the invasion of Burma , about the people of the country . |
29 | They were given intensive military training on Hainan island prior to going to Thailand in preparation for the invasion of Burma which was at an advanced planning stage . |
30 | Despite continuing reservations concerning " character " issues — throughout the campaign Clinton had been assailed over various aspects of his private life and judgment — there was evidence throughout April that many senior Democrats had accepted the inevitability of his nomination and had begun closing ranks around him in preparation for the campaign against Bush . |