Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine . |
| 32 | The open-form torsion angles are observed values for the phospho-free state of HPr ; the closed-form torsion angles of Ala16 are for the modelled phosphorylated state of HPr . |
| 33 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 34 | Waiting for the inescapable shout of discovery . |
| 35 | In November 1990 , her colleague Katherine Howe nominated Beverley for the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards . |
| 36 | Rachel was popular among the stall , always courteous and concerned and never asking for the impossible except with great charm and self-deprecation . |
| 37 | This lascivious hankering for the impossible , this lusty speculation and mystification , what the Vermorels call ‘ consumer mysticism ’ , all of this was written off by Punk , which left us with a shame about worship , made it a pad of its task to negotiate equal terms between audience and artist . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's more and more difficult to sell the fruit to supermarkets because they 're almost asking for the impossible , ’ he said . |
| 39 | Maybe I was hoping for the impossible — that they 'd control their situation once they reached the football stadiums . |
| 40 | It concludes that the APB ‘ may well be asking for the impossible ’ . |
| 41 | But I knew this was wishing for the impossible . |
| 42 | In reality , Scotland 's premier stadium-fillers have always striven for scale on a windswept , neo-Celtic level ; grand dreams , grander schemes , the proverbial men of the people reaching for the impossible . |
| 43 | The progress person should be aware when the creative team is dragging its feet or the account group is asking for the impossible . |
| 44 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 45 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 46 | We were virtually aiming for the impossible : to launch the revamped Friends of John McCarthy complete with campaign logo , notepaper and T-shirts , by our target date of 17 February , in four weeks ' time . |
| 47 | There 's probably a straightforward explanation for the impossible weariness I feel . |
| 48 | It was no use wishing for the impossible . |
| 49 | She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness . |
| 50 | Still held in the circle of his arms , Shae unconsciously squared her shoulders , preparing for the impossible challenge . |
| 51 | She hesitated a moment , and then she turned , and shut her eyes tightly , and wished for the impossible . |
| 52 | For the provincial press , any calculation is complicated by questions of market boundaries and different types of publication . |
| 53 | On May 12 and 13 around 1,000,000 Italians voted in elections for 28 municipal authorities and for the provincial government of Caserta , near Naples . |
| 54 | The 2@1/2-year mandates for the provincial and municipal assemblies were similarly extended . |
| 55 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 56 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 57 | Neil Sedaka , writer of Breaking Up is Hard to Do and Laughter In The Rain had played the Albert Hall last night , but showed just as much enthusiasm for the provincial stage.Mike Rowbottom reports |
| 58 | Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry . |
| 59 | But the hazard warnings , rear fog lights and rear screen demister are an arm 's length away , obscured by the steering wheel , while the switch for the front fogs is hidden above my right knee . |
| 60 | They included a differential lock for the front wheels , and a power lift to raise the plough and rotors at the headland . |