Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 2 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 3 | After their early opportunity Holland did not glimpse another scoring chance until eight minutes before half-time , when Kieft and Koeman combined to set up Berghuis for a hard , low cross which Taffarel could not hold . |
| 4 | ‘ The group 's name itself has often been the source of some speculation — especially for writers anxious to pad out biographies for a few extra paragraphs — but the name ‘ Smith ’ has always been significant in the Morrissey hagiography . |
| 5 | Wall Street is sceptical that a link with Mr Pritzker will materialise , leaving UAL to find an equity partner to replace British Airways , which had agreed to put up $750million for a 15 per cent stake in the buyout consortium . |
| 6 | Sent by Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy , to spy out routes for a possible overland crusade , de la Broquière started on his mission from Jaffa and worked his way slowly northward , arriving eventually at Bursa where he stayed some ten days . |
| 7 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 8 | He turned down £1.5 million to fight someone even less credible than Foreman in April , a guaranteed £5.5m to take on Bowe for the undisputed crown next summer , an opportunity to win the titles in the ring and the star prize , a chance to fulfil his avowed lifetime ambition . |
| 9 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
| 10 | Its objective was to lay down guidelines for a national convention ( comprising local administrators , professionals and elected MPs ) to be held in December 1992 or January 1993 . |
| 11 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 12 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 13 | British Airways agreed to take over Dan-Air for a nominal £1 ; the company will also assume Dan-Air 's liabilities , estimated at £35m . |
| 14 | Sutton had recruited Bill Packford , who had worked with him on the Evening News in the old days , to lay out pages for the 7 December dummy edition . |
| 15 | THE BELGIAN government has put off a decision on whether to stump up cash for the nuclear plant being built by France at Chooz — a finger of France sucking into Belgian territory . |