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

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1 They settled for a country life ; Johnnie studied at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and , following an uneasy spell on the Althorp estate , they moved to Park House .
2 But her consultant was n't too keen on the idea and she eventually settled for a domino birth .
3 Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed .
4 He settled for a gradualist policy .
5 I settled for a quality pie inside the ground — they were temperature-controlled by a woman who stuck a fancy knitting needle in them all .
6 It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price .
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