Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found a piece of blue-grey silk for the background , to tone in with the recipient 's decor , and selected the wooden frame and the gold tones in the picture itself for the same reason . |
| 2 | Education in the higher education sense is on the whole something for the eighteen to twenty-one-year-olds . |
| 3 | My Lords , Government is not prepared to retain the land itself for the future development of what must be regarded as one of the world 's greatest libraries . |
| 4 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 5 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 6 | News from the northern and western frontiers is that Chris Oake has a class going in the Isle of Man , a full complement of clubs , and hopes of a second class , and that Rosalind Garton in St Andrews is enjoying her contrasting sessions — a daytime one catering for the 55–70 age group , and an evening one for the younger and nimbler — with the occasional supplementary advanced class . |