Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 2 | Some may see the bird 's warning cry as falling short of lying for a further reason . |
| 3 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 4 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 5 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 6 | Peter said that although fifth was a respectable position he felt the team was capable of pushing for the top spot and added the society was eager for new blood . |
| 7 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |