Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No fast should be undertaken against an opponent ; it should be undertaken rather for the good of those near and dear to the person who fasts . |
| 2 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 3 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 4 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 5 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 6 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 7 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 8 | An aliquot was examined daily for the appearance of cholesterol monohydrate crystals with their typical rhomboidal notched and plated structures under the polarised microscope for 21 days of study . |
| 9 | So far ethics committee approval has been given only for the treatment of individual patients as a debate continues about the risks of genetic-medicine misuse . |
| 10 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 11 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |
| 12 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 13 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 14 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 15 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 16 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 17 | Privatisation of the railways is designed only for the benefit of the Goevrnement and its friends . |
| 18 | Banners , pamphlets and boxes being carried in for the start of fresher 's fair . |
| 19 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 20 | We believe that St Albans er has a traffic problem facing it in recent years , two or three year 's ago at the height of activity er the problems facing it were were more obvious and along with that situation er there 's no question about that and one might be forgetting to thinking the problem and not the way it has n't , it will return now , we know it will be return and therefore we should be firm in our resolve and at some point in time in the future that problem must be addressed sensibly for the good of the people of St Albans . |
| 21 | The refreshments at the Bow include a beer brewed specially for the establishment by the Caledonian Brewery . |
| 22 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 23 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 24 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 25 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 26 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 28 | Indeed , Baldock and Ungerson have argued that ‘ because most care-work is actually carried out for no payment at all … these payments , however small , are an improvement on the usual position of informal carers ’ ( Baldock and Ungerson , 1991 , p. 147 ) . |
| 29 | Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors . |
| 30 | The transport consultants Oscar Faber TPA will develop work already carried out for a study on short-term measures in the Forth area . |