Example sentences of "in their [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 2 | The Conservatives remained dissatisfied with these arrangements and returned to the matter in their manifesto for the 1987 General Election . |
| 3 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 4 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 5 | Each of the major political parties included detailed commitments in their manifestos for the general election held in Britain on 9 April . |
| 6 | The programmes were broadly similar in their call for a gradual transition to the market and a return to more state control . |
| 7 | He did n't seem to notice , and continued , his voice rising even more : ‘ I believe when people come here on vacation they come to escape the perpetual grey in their lives for a short space of time . |
| 8 | The surprise , the shout , the authority in his command kept them pinned in their chairs for a vital five seconds . |
| 9 | In their proposals for the conventional industries , officials at the commission have earmarked a list of technologies . |
| 10 | Perfectionism : Family members try desperately to get everything exactly right in their plans for the primary sufferer but still blame themselves when the smallest things go wrong . |
| 11 | They depicted British cinema as indifferent to art , lacking drive and sense of direction and , in their distaste for the commercial orientation of the system , failed to suggest any ways to reform it . |
| 12 | But the satellite companies will not only have a rising income from subscriptions and a need to invest it in their struggle for a credible share of the viewing audience . |
| 13 | ‘ We are not trying to force people to change , but to accompany them in their struggle for a better life , ’ he added . |
| 14 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 15 | For the blacks , too , the war proved an important stage in their quest for a better deal . |
| 16 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 17 | " Men were driven by greed and terror " in their quest for a new lord . |
| 18 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 19 | The nine republics gave qualified support in their pact for the anti-crisis programme which Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet on April 22 . |
| 20 | At the same time we can relish the days more and more , and search in their interstices for the hidden treasures and thus our lives may become the supreme adventure and treasure hunt of the transcendent . |
| 21 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Leinster have named a strong panel in their bid for the senior inter-provincials being staged in Dublin next weekend . |
| 23 | And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data . |
| 24 | And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data . |
| 25 | And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data . |
| 26 | It was difficult to tell as , in their search for an individual expression of fashion , they had adopted what virtually amounted to a black uniform . |
| 27 | In their search for the key ingredients of the Japanese model , the Americans concluded that empowerment is an important aspect of achieving greater productivity from their workforce . |
| 28 | This year her team at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital and colleagues at Columbia University , New York have made significant progress in their search for the exact location of the gene for causing spinal muscular atrophy , a muscle-withering disease which is the leading inherited cause of infant death . |
| 29 | Rejecting the inherent conservatism of the traditional portrait , many artists have today tried to extend the definition of portraiture to embrace a level of experimentation sought necessary in their search for the true identity . |
| 30 | Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 . |