Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mean Developmental Sentence Score ( DSS ) is derived by adding the total sentences score for a sample of 50 utterances and dividing the total by 50 . |
| 2 | The strength of the market across the board was evident in the strong prices achieved for a Limoges enamel plaque of a scene from the Aeneid from the workshop of the Aeneid Master ( lot 228 ) , which realised £40,000 ( $64,000 , est. £6,000–8,000 ) , and in the success of a group of Flemish and German seventeenth-century ivory pieces . |
| 3 | But the girl remembered Ramsey taking the evacuees round him in the children 's corner , and sitting on one of the low chairs meant for a child , and talking to them naturally and with an obvious pleasure . |
| 4 | This is a design that I call ‘ Bubbles ’ , which describes the overall look of the design , without exceeding the eight letters allowed for a name within the Creation 5 programme . |
| 5 | Have they any notion as they sit around Downing street of the horrendous costs involved for a nation that finds difficulty in paying its water workers properly ? |
| 6 | The slow-moving five-foot lines are unexpected ; the dignified quatrains make for a cumbrous narrative style , which is alien in spirit to that of a medieval ballad . |
| 7 | As the social services account for a substantial part of public spending , cuts affected a wide range of services . |
| 8 | The dark eyes flashed for a second , then she saw by my face that it was n't a crack . |
| 9 | In January 1985 all the review teams , the advisers and the civil servants withdrew for a snow-bound week at Wilton Park , a Foreign Office mansion deep in the Sussex countryside . |
| 10 | The sneezing bouts continued for a couple of days , accompanied by shivering and coughing fits . |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrats called for a ‘ flexible decade of retirement ’ in a new policy blueprint published this week . |
| 12 | It could have been an honest , provocative look at the fans and the straggling sub-cults gathered for a wade down memory lane . |
| 13 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 14 | At the top of the Exit Cracks the three men stopped for a rest . |
| 15 | For example , there are major differences in the ethical issues involved for a teacher involved in a piece of action-research on language within her own classroom , and for a teacher exploring issues related to drugs and HIV across a range of schools . |
| 16 | Why should the Tory rebels vote for a wrecking amendment which has been rendered futile ? |
| 17 | Meanwhile the house in Brisbane became a household of women with even the married sisters returning for a while . |
| 18 | The flashy divers go for a really expensive dry suit . |
| 19 | M Beregovoy said : ‘ This morning the President sent letters to the heads of state of all the nuclear powers calling for a rapid conclusion to negotiations on strategic disarmament and proposing the suspension of nuclear tests . ’ |
| 20 | Six youngsters from Essex and Suffolk were among the 64 hopefuls vying for a place in the England Under-11 team in Christchurch at the weekend . |
| 21 | In 1972 the United Nations called for a ten-year moratorium on all commercial whaling to be enacted through the IWC . |
| 22 | AN EARLY Picasso painting , which most of the authoritative books on the artist recorded as lost or destroyed , is to be sold in Paris on 30 November and is likely to fetch one of the highest prices paid for a picture at auction . |
| 23 | This print was probably intended as the frontispiece of a book — Goya was one of the first painters to look for a wider audience for his work . |
| 24 | The meeting fell short of the five members required for a quorum , with Bosnia-Hercegovina , Croatia , Macedonia and Slovenia not attending . |
| 25 | Oxford Air Training School is to train 65 young cadets this summer under the Ministry of Defence 's Flying Scholarship scheme , which provides thirty hours of flying training towards the 42 hours needed for a PPL . |
| 26 | The nine gleaned from this encounter puts Essex ahead of the field on 30 points , with Norfolk one-and-a-half behind as the six-time winners prepare for a final match against Cambridgeshire . |
| 27 | But as long as you spot the early signs you should be okay — just keep the red bits covered for a few days . |
| 28 | None of the Conservative councillors worked for a local authority in any capacity ( Gyford 1983b:9 ) . |
| 29 | Mead was one of the best-known anthropologists arguing for a nurture perspective on human behaviour . |
| 30 | Surrounded by snow and dressed in concert clothes , the two musicians played for a German television crew and a small audience of artists while Serb snipers perched only 150 yards away at the front line took pot shots . |