Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases . |
| 2 | Secretary 's report the secretary thanked Joan and Reg for the club during the year especially for donating items for the open show for the and Christmas social . |
| 3 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |
| 4 | ( v ) Pupils should learn how to organise and express their meaning appropriately not only for different specified audiences ( as for key stage 3 ) but also for generalised unknown audiences , eg in producing instructions for a game , letters to a newspaper , publicity campaigns , etc . |
| 5 | Innovative only in using cantilevers for the galleries and hence abolishing intrusive columns , he was uniquely pragmatic in his architectural and technical responses to the commercial manager 's brief , which was to seat ever-larger audiences on ever-tighter city-centre sites . |
| 6 | The exercise proved valuable not only in securing support for the projects but also in identifying issues requiring clarification or more closely reasoned argument . |
| 7 | This should be checked at regular intervals and especially on commencing work for the day . |
| 8 | The emphasis was thus on using firms for the development of a local area and for its people — rather than with using people for the development of private firms in an area . |
| 9 | Diego Maradona , the only player in Italy to earn more than Gullit , played in Napoli 's Uefa Cup third-round home leg against Werder Bremen yesterday after taking painkillers for a back injury , but was largely ineffective as his side lost 3-2 . |
| 10 | The 25-year-old central defender , who captained the troubled Second Division club in the season just ended , made his feelings clear yesterday after opening negotiations for a new contract with chief executive Freddie Fletcher . |
| 11 | He then dried the hair off slightly before applying mousse for a stiffer effect . |
| 12 | Instead of measuring volatility for a sequence of non-overlapping periods ( days , say ) , as have previous authors , Park and Sears calculated volatility for the remaining period to delivery . |
| 13 | Baker did well apart from losing possession for the Saints ' third goal while Wark earned a first half booking for a challenge on Banger . |