Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] or [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
| 2 | Stock broking firms that are involved in the issue or act for the authorities have been banned in the run up to flotation from issuing any research . |
| 3 | The desire or need for a fresh start arose either because , as in the United States , some neighbouring communities wished to unite together under a new government ; or because , as in Austria or Hungary or Czechoslovakia after 1918 , communities had been released from an Empire as the result of a war and were now free to govern themselves ; or because , as in France in 1789 or the U.S.S.R. in 1917 , a revolution had made a break with the past and a new form of government on new principles was desired ; or because , as in Germany after 1918 or in France in 1875 or in 1946 , defeat in war had broken the continuity of government and a fresh start was needed after the war . |
| 4 | The arches , columns , and huge statuary of the exterior prepared the traveller or sightseer for the vast vaulted concourse and waiting-room within . |
| 5 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 6 | In a new television interview , he calls Mr Clinton a person without the background or experience for the office . |
| 7 | Salary is paid by the province or state for the first year after which the employer accepts responsibility . |
| 8 | Stretching to ease tired muscles , she debated whether to go for a swim in the pool or opt for a long soak in a warm scented bath . |
| 9 | The penetrance ( probability of having the disease for given genotype expressed as P ( disease/genotype ) ) of the abnormal allele A' was almost the same for the liability classes above class 1 , being 0.26 in the heterozygote or homozygote for the highest incidence groups . |
| 10 | You should start as the planners do ; draw up a plan or outline for the essay in some form . |
| 11 | In other words the traditional concept of the sign as a vehicle or substitute for an idea or a thing can fairly easily be transposed tot he structure of the sign itself , with the signifier being regarded as a substitute for the signified . |
| 12 | The villagers were suspicious at first , waiting for the demand of a bribe or request for a chicken or a village girl , but in the end they decided to believe him . |
| 13 | I neither knew nor cared whether my distress for him was based on love for a man or love for a patient . |
| 14 | She chose to read or follow a hobby or go for a walk or just relax in the bath . |
| 15 | A win or draw for the Army will give them their 29th outright title while victory for the RAF will result in the 10th triple tie of the competition . |
| 16 | Too mean to waste a bullet or send for a vet , thought Massingham savagely . |
| 17 | No one should be without a kanga or sarong for the summer . |
| 18 | When a sudden shock wave pressurises water captured in the pores between soil particles , there is no time or place for the water to move : the high pressure pushes the soil particles apart . |