Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 963 , 970–971 , expressed no doubt whatsoever that an order or a refusal of an order by a criminal judge for the production of documents under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 was properly described as an order in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 2 | Doubts concerning American policy in any case were often offset by a higher regard for the Americans as a people . |
| 3 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 4 | M. Polanyi wrote that beauty can reveal truth about nature ; thus Einstein 's theory of relativity was extolled by a fellow scientist for the grandeur , boldness , and directness of the thought which made everything more beautiful and grand . |
| 5 | The organisers ' policy of making the estimates attractive to potential buyers was again vindicated with Willi Baumeister 's painting ‘ Four Points ’ which realised DM200,000 ( £68,000 ; $124,100 ) , a 1964 untitled watercolour by Ernst Wilhelm Nay which went under the hammer at DM62,000 ( £21.400 ; $38,500 ) and an unusually bright picture of the Tiergarten by Liebermann , secured by a private bidder for the princely sum of DM430,000 ( £148,300 ; $266,900 : estimate DM300,000 ) . |
| 6 | In doing so he avoided confrontation : the State continued to be guided by a primary concern for the interests of the landed nobility . |
| 7 | It is in five movements , and is graced by a major role for the solo oboe , giving it almost the character of a concerto . |
| 8 | Such rhetoric was backed by a proper concern for the freedom and order of the House , down to such details as a successful motion ( 16 December 1606 ) that the adjournment of a committee on a bill should be announced in the House . |
| 9 | Clearly its exercise must be governed by practical considerations , and by a proper regard for the rights of others . |
| 10 | Yesterday , magistrates in Solihull were told by a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals inspector that Boris would have suffered a lingering and painful death if his journey in the post had gone ahead . |
| 11 | Drama , however , is powerfully engendered in The Sacrifice of Isaac where chiaroscuro successfully poses Abraham as a tall and threatening silhouette drawn in pen , brown ink and brown wash , lightened with white in a drawing by Baciccio , a protege of Gianlorenzo Bernini — himself represented by a precise Design for the Tombstone of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio da Carpi . |
| 12 | For example , Spellacy and Blumstein ( 1970 ) presented dichotic pairs of consonant-vowel-consonant ( cvc ) syllables among which were randomly interspersed either real English words for half the subjects or musical or environmental sounds produced by a human voice for the other half of the subjects . |
| 13 | Delegates voted by a large majority for the immediate introduction of a multiparty system , emphatically rejecting a proposal by Bongo that democratic pluralism be introduced over a three- to five-year period ; delegates also rejected Bongo 's proposal for a new single party , the Gabonese Social Democratic Rally ( RSDG ) [ ibid. ] , encompassing various political groupings , which was to have replaced the Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) , the sole legal party since 1968 . |
| 14 | Sixteen tons of glass have been donated by a British firm for the project . |
| 15 | About three weeks ago , I was told by a voluntary worker for the homeless how she had found a 15-year-old girl , five months pregnant , sleeping on the concrete steps of a doorway in Charing Cross . |
| 16 | Now consider the shares as seen by a potential bidder for the whole trust ; most likely this would itself be a financial institution . |
| 17 | But Labour was shaken to the core by a passionate battle for the deputy leadership ( a post originally created to placate Herbert Morrison after 1951 ) between Denis Healey and Tony Benn . |
| 18 | Having selected your sleeve / armhole type , a third menu appears for you to select your FRONT NECK type , followed by a fourth menu for the BACK NECK type ( see Fig 1 ) Should you wish to change any of the selections you have made , just press ESCAPE until you get back to the menu that you need to alter . |
| 19 | Where the highway across land in the possession of the plaintiff was used by a racing tout for the purpose of taking notes on the form of a racehorse , a trespass was committed . |
| 20 | Titled ‘ The Tate 's continual revolutionary ’ , this unflattering portrait has been widely accepted as a fair criticism and is accompanied by a declining audience for the museum 's collection and exhibitions . |
| 21 | This was soon followed by a further defeat for the conservative faction in the Theological Commission . |
| 22 | Their responsibilities were assumed by a High Authority for the Transition to the Third Republic and a National Committee for Economic and Social Recovery ; both these bodies would include members of the opposition . |
| 23 | The entrance to the harbour was by a clear channel for the last two hundred yards or so , unmarked but familiar to the fisherfolk , the rest a widespread menace . |
| 24 | In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned . |
| 25 | It can not be asserted with confidence that every , or even any , of these distinctions would find favour with a judge , but at any rate they are possible distinctions which would certainly be made much of by an experienced counsel for the defence . |
| 26 | Given that the police are essentially an organization constrained by an ingrained respect for the pragmatism of action — regardless of the lip-service paid to the police college , the ‘ special course ’ , or the university scholarship — it was inevitable that the hierarchy would follow the dictates of institutional philosophy and pull the marginal mover in from the periphery ; for there is a boundary beyond which the pilgrim can not be allowed to stray . |
| 27 | An enigmatic reference to Meistersinger in a letter to Rohde in August is followed two months later by an avowed relish for the emotive Wagnerian ethos to which Meistersinger presents , comparatively , such a contrast . |