Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there is anything we can do at the dams , it may be that we can raise their levels by even two or three inches , but that has implications for the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 2 | This provided cover for a uniformed gunman who opened fire with a sub-machine gun , hitting Boudiaf in the back and the head . |
| 3 | DoE might be prepared to provide money for the initial cost of investigating polluted sites . |
| 4 | This allows time for an introductory visit , alone or with relatives . |
| 5 | Kaifu 's government had been forced on Sept. 30 to abandon plans for a major constitutional reform which might have helped to end the LDP 's factional in-fighting . |
| 6 | 4 It 's easier to get forgiveness for a poor decision than permission for a good one . |
| 7 | 484 , W told A that he was willing to pay £100,000 for a certain farm . |
| 8 | ( paras.2.6 , 4.2 ) I belong to the 40% who would be willing to pay £10 for a national permit , but I appreciate the problems of administration and enforcement , which probably means that Option A is the more practical alternative . |
| 9 | A simple ‘ Forties ’ style sweater with puffed sleeves , very fashionable these days , just needs a few crochet flowers for the finishing touch . |
| 10 | Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new . |
| 11 | This provides shelter for a small fishing fleet , which supports a population of nearly a hundred people . |
| 12 | As well as losing power this provides support for the pronounced body lean into the turn . |
| 13 | And tomorrow TI 's finance team it due to visit Cheltenham for a close inspection of the company it now owns . |
| 14 | The possibility of commercial suicide aside , the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Although TSDO play a supporting role they are a crucial part of the overall success of the project and as such deserve recognition for the tremendous job they are doing . ’ |
| 16 | The existence of the topological ‘ fold ’ singularities in regions II and III implies bounds for the initial Cauchy hypersurface in both of the directions from which the waves emerge . |
| 17 | This is exactly what Benjamin Bevan constructed between 1810 and 1813 , except that some reshaping of the middle and lower side ponds took place in 1898 to make room for the inclined plane embankment , and that some reconditioning of the locks took place between 1908 and 1910 in preparation for re-opening . |
| 18 | It was of course appreciated that the public at large was in favour of retaining the death penalty and that its abolition would be likely to lose votes for the Labour Party . |
| 19 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 20 | How is a consultant physician or surgeon in a busy hospital supposed to find time for the formal educational supervision suggested , much less the pastoral aspects ? |
| 21 | These plants were supposed to provide fuel for a new generation of ‘ fast ’ reactors which would burn plutonium , but neither the demand for nuclear power nor the performance of fast reactors has met the planners ' expectations , and the cost of uranium fuel has dropped . |
| 22 | These included provision for a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent across the EC until the end of 1996 and a two-tier system of excise duty on spirits . |
| 23 | And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side . |
| 24 | The federal government has suddenly ‘ discovered ’ high technology , say the scientists , and is likely to back plans for the new institute . |
| 25 | ‘ They are faithful to their lords ’ , wrote William of Malmesbury of the Normans , ‘ but swift to break faith for a slight occasion . |
| 26 | A NURSE yesterday told how a colleague accused of murdering four children had been quick to summon help for a sick baby . |
| 27 | Twelve ( 13% ) of these represent successes for the colonoscopic surveillance programmes — that is , Dukes 's A/B cancers detected by regular colonoscopic surveillance . |
| 28 | Working on the stage of the Folies was fraught with difficulty — there were so many trap doors for the various effects : fountains , moving staircases , foam cascading down the side , even mimosa perfume sprayed from the flies in one number . |
| 29 | Melsonby Hall meeting : A public meeting will be held at Melsonby School on March 17 to discuss proposals for the new village hall . |
| 30 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |