Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Software should offer the opportunity for the teacher and pupils to learn together . |
2 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
3 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
4 | After spending one night at the Hilton he reserved the suite for a week and paid in advance . |
5 | Vivian Ellis of Mr Cinders and Bless the Bride talked enchantingly about Joyce , whilst Reggie and family and Simon Williams and other chums queued down the stairway for a hug and a plastic cup of champagne . |
6 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
7 | Dressed up or down it fits the fill for every occasion and will be one of the easiest things you have ever made — try it in linen , washed silk or a floral print |
8 | While admitting that the US company 's board had discussed winding up the Irish operation a number of times , he emphasized his gratitude and that of the board for the help and co-operation received from the Irish government and the IDA . |
9 | How easy , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , it would have been to write : Lo , Cadmus ' grandson enters Diana 's grove , but no , Ovid defers the verb for a line and a half , telling us — what ? |
10 | Because that is the mattress for the bed that folds away in the sitting room . |
11 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
12 | Bal is thinking of using the money for a holiday and is looking forward to submitting more ideas in the future . |
13 | look at the money for a moment because if you look , when we come to look at the financial commentary , we will be going down the erm er what we spent our training budget on |
14 | In February 1914 she scraped together the money for the trip and took lodgings in Montparnasse in a foul-smelling room on the Boulevard Raspail . |
15 | I want it to have the money for the investment that it needs to build the phone service that we require for the 1990s . |
16 | Vimla , the most feminine-looking of the eunuchs , did not have the money for an operation and voluntarily underwent a village castration . |
17 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
18 | They may well claim that such commitments would result in bankruptcy , but if that were the case ( and it seems unlikely ) , the case for a lesbian and gay politics that addresses problems in our social structures remains a strong one . |
19 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
20 | Both articles sustain the case for an anti-essentialist and pragmatic politics , and therefore question the appeal to the category of experience in the two movements . |
21 | The smoothing procedure may be determined in advance but this is not the case for the shape and form of the final result : the data is allowed to speak for itself . |
22 | ‘ It would greatly help the case for the chapter if he were to indicate now that his party supported the Maastricht Treaty . ’ |
23 | Jane Griffin outlines the case for the prosecution and the defence |
24 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
25 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
26 | They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them . |
27 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
28 | The department provides most of the teaching for the European and International Politics stream of the MSc/Diploma in Social Sciences . |
29 | But McDonnell Douglas , which beat more than 100 firms to win the contract for a payroll and personnel system , says it will oppose the ‘ ill advised ’ legal action . |
30 | Fares paid cover those incurred at the beginning and end of the contract for the employee and his dependants ; host country arrival and departure expenses and the employer may pay home-leave fares and disturbance allowances . |