Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the field Webb stood out for composure , O'Donnell 's experience was invaluable , and their overseas player , Simpkins — he travels from the Isle of Wight — was brave and solid in goal . |
| 2 | Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment . |
| 3 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 4 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 5 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 6 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 7 | Mr Moynihan should even now be pressing the football authorities to cast around for an island where The Problem can be contained . |
| 8 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 9 | Hoddle 's been in the transfer market to make up for Shearer 's loss . |
| 10 | L 178 , p. 5 ) ) , only in connection with the residence requirement laid down for shareholders , and it will therefore be considered only in the context of part ( b ) of the question as I have reformulated it above . |
| 11 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 12 | 3 Upon impact , the whole of the body weight follows through for maximum effect . |
| 13 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 14 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |
| 15 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 16 | The new Tories talked of being ‘ on the side of the people ’ and when , in March 1954 the Television Bill came up for its second reading , they won the day . |
| 17 | Later on , they encouraged the beat man to take over for five minutes — for a man to go and stretch his legs . |
| 18 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 19 | He said that the polling had been interrupted because the polling officers shut down for lunch . |
| 20 | Textiles were excluded and there was no significant increases in the sugar quota to make up for cuts in recent years . |
| 21 | Even the most reliable equipment is at the mercy of the fuse in the plug , and I would hope that if the Rocon circuit went off for this ( or any other reason ) , the remaining 200 watts would keep the tank from lethal chilling until I spotted the problem ( I am often away for days at a time ) |
| 22 | If the pilot light goes out for any reason , a heat-sensing thermocouple detects the fault and prevents the main gas supply from operating . |
| 23 | But as the deadline approaches look out for new products , such as cash unit trusts paying interest gross , as the banks and building societies battle to hang on to those deposits . |
| 24 | Earlier the court heard that in the days after the attack Nichol turned up for work with scratches on his face . |
| 25 | Still , the door policy makes up for it — they let you in if your name is quite similar to one that 's on the guest list . |
| 26 | I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue . |
| 27 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 28 | The heating pipes coming through for the the central heating and the hot water . |
| 29 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 30 | Beware though , if you leave the bubble meter topped up for too long . |