Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told him a lie about Auntie Lou going for a walk up the mountain and Auntie Lou did n't know what she 'd said . |
| 2 | During the academic year , the Institute runs special programmes , free of charge , on behalf of the University , for postgraduate students registered for a degree who need help with improving their English . |
| 3 | Wide margins , the suggestions given above and colour coding during study periods make for an attractive and useful set of notes . |
| 4 | PETER 'S FRIENDS : Self-indulgent drama with Kenneth Branagh and chums as Oxbridge graduates meeting for a crisis-ridden Yuletide reunion . |
| 5 | That means more home helps , more meals on wheels and more money available for home improvement grants for the disabled.The future of the threatened homes will be discussed by the social services committee when it meets in two weeks . |
| 6 | The stretch of river below Barden Bridge makes for a particularly rewarding walk . |
| 7 | 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. ) . |
| 8 | London financier Dennis Oliver has mobilised a group of MCC members to call for a special meeting of the club to protest about Gower 's absence . |
| 9 | But it took more , surely , than fourteen years of moderate peace to erase the fighting instinct that had served a race through two hundred years and more of Viking attacks , through the civil onslaughts that led to the fusion of Pict and Scot , of Scandinavian and Gael ; the wars of royal cousin against royal cousin as the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin fought for the throne . |
| 10 | On the house ! ’ you are probably mumbling to yourself as you polish off the bottle of Jim Beam meant for the 15 April issue winner . |
| 11 | The programme was part of a restructuring of university staff to prepare for a new market environment . |
| 12 | A German colony from 1884 , the territory came under South African rule in 1915 , and in 1920 a League of Nations mandate provided for a further period of South African administration . |
| 13 | The National Co-ordination Committee of Opposition Groups called for a day of civil disobedience on April 15 and for a general strike — " Operation dead cities " — on April 18 and 19 , which appeared to be widely observed . |
| 14 | There 's a large number of undergraduates that 's studying for the B S C degree , and a very substantial number of postgraduate students studying for the Masters degree or the Doctor of Philosophy . |
| 15 | we did have a winner at the weekend … young chap by the name of Nigel Mansell driving for the Oxfordshire based Williams team went and won the South African Grand Prix |
| 16 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 17 | FOR MANY years British golfers in search of winter sunshine headed for the fairways of Spain or Portugal , but with good exchange rates against the dollar the Atlantic seaboard of the United States has become an alternative . |
| 18 | In the '60s Scottish football was awash with stories of ‘ scouts ’ — the often unpaid enthusiasts who scoured the pitches of school-boy Scotland looking for the next generation of international talent . |
| 19 | However , a party can not evade the Act by a choice of law clause providing for the contract to be governed by the law of some state other than the UK . |
| 20 | We will retain the right of council tenants to opt for a change of landlord , but only after a fair ballot . |
| 21 | What is the estimate of disk storage needed for the complete OED and Supplement : |
| 22 | This imposition of routine health screening for the older age groups in the new GP contract is obviously premised upon the assumption that routine screening is beneficial to the health of the population . |
| 23 | What do you think existing kinds of drama training do for the new actor ? |
| 24 | In some parts of African game reserves , such as the Masai Mara , it is not unusual to come across dozens of tourist trucks jostling for the best position to view game . |
| 25 | Trapped whales of Scapa Flow heading for the open sea again David Hartley records the successful end of Operation Gentle Shepherd |
| 26 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 27 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 28 | On the way back , she met Miss Dunstable with an armful of pussy willow intended for the church porch . |
| 29 | But why the caution ? the analyses of the data have been done extremely quickly , cutting corners , albeit carefully , to single out precisely the kind of event theory predicts for a W particle . |
| 30 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |