Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield .
2 This case is , as is readily appreciated , a case merely for the existence of some sort of second chamber , and not for the House of Lords as at present composed .
3 So we 're going back in time a bit today for the mystery movie quiz .
4 If you 're not sure about them , you 'll be better off paying a bit more for the security of a larger firm such as British Telecom or the Electricity Board .
5 Having been told that there can be a contract either for the sale of specific goods or for the sale of unascertained goods , one might ask , ‘ Is there not a third category ?
6 I have a look round for the fag packet , but it 's gone .
7 It 's not no y you using a you put a boiler in for a purpose , is to heat your water up in n it ?
8 The Marriner version of Capriccio , very beautifully played with not a hint of sentimentality , earns a recommendation both for the quality of sound — the finest of any here — which is full , clear and atmospheric and — more surprisingly — for the coupling .
9 Its passage had been delayed by the calling of the December general election , at which Prime Minister Poul Schlüter had sought to strengthen his position by obtaining a mandate both for the budget and for a programme of tax reforms [ see pp. 37868 ; 37924-25 ] .
10 It 's it is a nationwide survey on spoken English erm there 's a somebody approached me today and said would I carry a tape around for a week and record people talking .
11 When was the last time you drove a car just for the thrill of it ?
12 I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are .
13 9 ( 8 ) HOUSESITTER : Romantic comedy about an architect , Steve Martin , who builds a dream home for a girlfriend who drops him and is replaced by Goldie Hawn .
14 Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ?
15 Philip Saunders makes a starker contrast between the limited exposure of currency funds and holdings in shares or unit trusts : ‘ With charges at 4 per cent initially and three-quarters of a point annually for a currency fund , would you pay 6 per cent to go into a plain old unit trust ? ’
16 Thus , within the discipline of literature , there must be a place not only for poetry , but also for nineteenth-century German poetry , and a place somewhere for the use of fibre optics in cable television .
17 We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it .
18 A recognised formal staff structure acts as a basis both for the processing of instructions and for job control and expansion .
19 Techno music is illegal on the Isle Of Man , where there is a warrant out for the arrest of many top stars including Kraftwerk , Joey Beltram , Inner City and , due to a technical error , Ned 's Atomic Dustbin .
20 ‘ There 's a warrant out for the arrest of Michael Green . ’
21 Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night .
22 The restoration has been further financed by a subsidy of DFl.130,000 ( £40,625 ; $70,684 ) from the Ministry of Culture as well as by contributions from the owners of the villas who set up a foundation specifically for the purpose .
23 Wait a while longer for the adult insects to hatch and come up out of the soil .
24 He also found that sitting a person inside for a period each day helped the processes of healing .
25 When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral .
26 The situation was touched with sadness ( the trip was ostensibly a day out for the girl , thus implying the limitations of her life 's experience ) and the photographs of the girl snatched by an opportunist art student for later exhibition had more to do with the exploitation of human life by art than with mental handicap .
27 Using scrap metal and steel porter 's barrow , they designed and built a trolley specifically for the job which carries not one but two sets in perfect safety and with greater manoeuvrability .
28 We are misled time after time after time when people have problems like they 're having their vehicle serviced , it 's put a claim in for a water pump , and have the cost of their service paid for .
29 Barrow said : ‘ We have only nine signed professionals at the moment so we had to make a start somewhere for the future .
30 It is a sign of the nervousness around Europe that when the Irish asked a week ago for the treaty negotiations to be reopened so that they could amend the abortion protocol , other countries reacted with horror .
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