Example sentences of "the [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 .
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