Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [vb infin] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polly Harvey may record for a small label called Too Pure , but she has managed to become the rising star of the indie world by tackling issues of sexuality head on . |
| 2 | Most people who take a personal pension in place of SERPS will qualify for an extra 2 per cent payment by the DSS on top of the minimum contributions . |
| 3 | ISO should reveal for the first time the fine details of star-birth . |
| 4 | While NATO must maintain for the foreseeable future a mix of nuclear and conventional forces in Europe , the declaration reaffirmed that no weapons would ever be used except in self-defence and that the lowest and most stable level of nuclear forces to prevent war was sought . |
| 5 | Rod , who hoped Renee would doze for the whole flight , was on his way to record an album . |
| 6 | Indeed , Herder could argue for a popular State without democratic mechanisms . |
| 7 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 8 | Calling the election a " success " , the United Kindgom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , said on Sept. 16 that the UK would work for a progressive extension of democracy in Hong Kong , signalling that the UK might press China to revise the Basic Law under which the proportion of directly elected seats would gradually rise to half by 2007 . |
| 9 | Right now , Jordan would settle for a goalless draw and take his chances in the second leg at Tynecastle . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom will work for a successful United Nations Conference on Environment and Development next June . |
| 11 | But if unionists could be persuaded to accept the present Anglo-Irish Agreement , with increased local democracy , and if the SDLP would settle for a unionist input into cross-border institutions covering common interests like agriculture , tourism and roads , would this not be progress ? |
| 12 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |
| 13 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 14 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 15 | This side of the issue was entrusted to Lord Brabazon of Tara , whose committee was invited to make recommendations on the types of aircraft that Britain should produce for the postwar period . |
| 16 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 17 | THE Kellogg 's Tour of Britain will start for the first time in Portsmouth and finish in Liverpool after 550 miles ' racing in five days in August . |
| 18 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 19 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 20 | Bridgwater , who dropped two leagues in consecutive seasons , hope Taylor will return for a further season after a short trip to New Zealand in the summer . |
| 21 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 22 | There was intense speculation as to whether President Suharto would run for a sixth consecutive term , and as to who , if he decided not to run , would succeed him . |
| 23 | Swansea 's Clement will train for the first time since being sidelined for more than six weeks with a stress fracture of the shin . |
| 24 | But apart from limited mineral resources and abundant meat , Kyrgyzstan will struggle for a long time . |
| 25 | Last week BR suggested that BS might apply for a special Government grant , possibly 100 per cent , to modernise the Redmire railhead by installing a conveyor system . |
| 26 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 27 | A more likely scenario is that GM and Ford will vie for a strategic yet friendly investment in Jaguar . |