Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to her retirement she acted as the Society 's Liaison Officer for the Sports Council for the last 20 years . |
| 2 | Not only has it hived-off its drug side into Zeneca but also , unlike most chemical companies , it is coming out of the recession with no cash worries as the rights issue for the Zeneca shares will pay off most of its debt . |
| 3 | The second option will be to forget about the skills revolution for a while and concentrate on helping the unemployed . |
| 4 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 5 | Always the demand is for ‘ practical ’ skills , while academic analysis remains a despised pastime , so that even the Superintendents ' Association ( the equivalent of the Police Federation for the lower ranks ) has similarly denied any place for intellectualism for its members . |
| 6 | Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect . |
| 7 | Professor Philip Swallow , Head of the English Department at Rummidge University , had been elected Dean of the Arts Faculty for a three-year term ; and since the duties of this office , added to his Departmental responsibilities , drastically reduced his contribution to undergraduate teaching , he was by tradition allowed to appoint a temporary lecturer , at the lower end of the salary scale , as what was quaintly termed ‘ Dean 's Relief ’ . |
| 8 | The provision was part of the appropriations bill for the Commerce , State , Justice and Judiciary Departments which was then approved by the Senate on Nov. 8 and signed into law on Nov. 21 . |
| 9 | Rival candidates will work up a lather over racial tensions , law and order , and the latest agenda of the gay-rights movement for the city 's schools . |
| 10 | Robert Newman , director of the schools department for the archdiocese of Liverpool , said there is a thorough consultation process before a final decision is taken . |
| 11 | The current programme of the IT Committee includes the investigation and evaluation of a telecommunications network for the Bar as a whole . |
| 12 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 14 | ‘ That was not felt to be the most suitable way of proceeding in this matter , ’ he says , sounding like a police spokesman for the first time . |
| 15 | But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence . |
| 16 | Most of the Alresford reservoir — which began life in the 12th century as a fisheries pond for the Bishop du Lucy — is now owned by the Alresford House Estate Trust , one of whose trustees is the prospective Conservative candidate for Stoke-on-Trent South , Peter Maxwell . |
| 17 | Initially rebuffed by NBC in Chicago , Reagan found work as a sports announcer for a small radio station in Davenport , Iowa . |
| 18 | His company has signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with the telecommunications giant for a minimum of six years . |
| 19 | Under the Prussians education for the Poles was a mere down-payment for later , more thorough , Germanisation and absorption . |
| 20 | After winning his first four contests , he was outpointed , but strengthened his resolve winning his next nine , eight inside the distance , including an eight-rounds victory for the British light-middleweight title . |
| 21 | His father started as an accounts clerk for a road haulier ; his mother was a shop manager . |
| 22 | The Revenue would undoubtedly seek to drive through an earnings basis for the future . |
| 23 | Luke Rittner , who resigned from the Arts Council for the sake of the ‘ arm 's length principle ’ the convention dear to British minds that politicians should not interfere in arts funding decisions now says that principle is dead and that the arts community must embrace the continental approach of ‘ hands on ’ government . |
| 24 | Such a view of ‘ sociology ’ sets up another binary derived from the police preference for a Manichaean world created on homologies of ‘ good — evil ’ , and further reflects the ferocious resistance to and fear of change which permeates the organization ( see for example Weatheritt 1986 , Butler 1984 , and Adams 1988 ) . |
| 25 | He wants to keep Portsmouth in the dark until the teams line-up for the kick-off . |
| 26 | The black and white Carry On S– Spying ( A notice in the entertainments programme for the British Embassy in Moscow read : ‘ 13 Aug 8 pm . |
| 27 | A wiring diagram is shown in the owners handbook for the three quarter ton 71–85 , available from the LRO bookshop . |
| 28 | In the circumstances victory for the hosts would have been a fitting reward for their extraordinary dedication to the game and its very traditional amateur roots . |
| 29 | Anyway , is there a vacancy in the reserves midfield for a player of Gascoigne 's quality ! ! |
| 30 | We were kept in the police station for a couple of days and then we got remanded to Low Newton . |