Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mansell won five times and was second in the Championship for the third time in his career . |
2 | Ronald Reagan is elected President — following Margaret Thatcher 's victory in Britain the previous year , right-wing dominance in the West for the 1980s is assured . |
3 | An extra-full crew of Swallows — Bridget is old enough to join in the adventures for the first time — and the two visiting Amazons turn surveyors , until they encounter those muddy indigenous savages , the Eels and the Mastodon , and the hostilities replace exploration . |
4 | Finely spread bait means they have to work hard for a meal and therefore remain in the swim for the maximum length of time . |
5 | Similarly the profit and loss accounts must give a like view of the profit or loss of the company or of the undertakings included in the consolidation for the financial year again ‘ so far as it concerns , the members . ’ |
6 | One way of overcoming the problem is to bet on every horse , so to speak , by assigning a score to every phoneme in the system for every possible segmentation . |
7 | At the moment erm Shane I 've got a new enquiry in the system for a whole works , right , |
8 | Is there a legal requirement in the company for a minimum ‘ local ’ ownership of businesses in the country ? |
9 | And this year , with me being in the Company for the first time , I really must go . ’ |
10 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |
11 | Prescott is right in restating old principles , some of which have become obscured in the rush for the political centre ground . |
12 | He closed the door behind him , and Shelley stood in the hall for a long time , one hand up to her untidy hair where Miguel had ruffled it . |
13 | He added : ‘ They offer goodies , like free carpets and washing machines , but there is no cupboard in the hall for the wet coats , the umbrellas or the Hoover . ’ |
14 | If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach . |
15 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
16 | The Yugoslav Assembly approved the federal presidency 's position which would " remove inconsistencies in the procedure for the possible secession by any republic from Yugoslavia , thus removing the danger of republics regulating this matter as they consider it necessary " . |
17 | The plaintiff 's declaration alleged that he was owner of the Queen 's Theatre , that he had contracted with Johanna Wagner , a famous operatic singer , to perform exclusively in the theatre for a certain time and that the defendant , owner of a rival theatre , wishing himself to obtain Miss Wagner 's services ‘ knowing the premises and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff … enticed and persuaded [ her ] to refuse to perform . ’ |
18 | Mr Li has made it plain that there will be no more special economic zones in the next ten years , and the praise in the communiqué for the Dengist reforms smacks of insincere ritual . |
19 | Attempts to simplify this , particularly in the vogue for a massive Romanesque style in the 1880s , foundered on the sheer scope of station-building continent-wide , and the range of experimentation which arose from the repeated station renewal of railway companies whose exaggerated energy and corporate conceit were to endanger their own survival . |
20 | In 548 they stayed in the Balkans for a whole year and destroyed many towns and fortresses , including the Byzantine centre of Lychnidus ( Ohrid ) . |
21 | Radical changes to this pattern are contained in the Proposal for a Fifth Company Law Directive , in terms of both board structure and employee participation . |
22 | One possibility lies in the proposal for a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia , which has been promoted in particular by Indonesia and Malaysia . |
23 | ‘ We must conserve our money and our time in the schedules for the big ones , ’ Bromley says . |
24 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |
25 | Apart from Security , though , there was little good news in the figures for the non-telecom businesses . |
26 | His hair was grey , and his face lined and brown as if he had been in the sun for a long time . |
27 | This means placing the plant material in a base of oil or fat and leaving the mixture in the sun for a few days . |
28 | Most of the reading recommended in the notes for the previous chapter is relevant for this one too . |
29 | But it is quite right that Wales have decided you should have to live and play in the country for a good few years ’ . |
30 | Subsequently he built a house in the country for a wealthy barrister ( Hurtwood in Sussex ) and another in the Usk Valley ( Colomendy ) , where he also displayed a talent for garden design ( 1912–14 ) . |