Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 2 | Highlights will include an istoriato plate depicting the ‘ Sack of Rome ’ , made in Urbino between 1527 and 1530 by Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo ( est. $100,000–125,000 ; £62,500–78,125 ) , an armorial istoriato charger illustrating ‘ Orpheus charming the animals ’ of around 1520 ( est. $80,000–100,000 ; £50,000–62,500 ) and a tondino made for the Vitelli family of Città di Castello around 1530 ( est. $50,000–60,000 ; £31,250–37,500 ) . |
| 3 | A few months later , he accepted a contract to play for a Canadian football team . |
| 4 | Javed Miandad 's XI was unchanged , but England had a side tailored for the imagined needs of Leeds , Russell , Malcolm and Salisbury making way for Ramprakash , Pringle and Mallender , with Newport ( less than full fit ) and Childs left out of the squad of 13 . |
| 5 | The sign on the door tells the visitor he can have a tooth extracted for a trifling sum . |
| 6 | In Kaszubia , Mazowia and Silesia the peasants referred to themselves as Kaszuby , Mazury and Slęzaki rather than as Poles : Polak was a term reserved for the Polish nobility . |
| 7 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 8 | The Comoros are ruled by a President elected for a six-year term . |
| 9 | The Comoros are ruled by a President elected for a six-year term . |
| 10 | Under the provisions of the 1982 Constitution executive power is exercised by a President elected for a four-year term by a simple majority of votes . |
| 11 | A newcomer at the fair was Simon Lee of Gimpel Fils , who , while hesitant about sales at this early stage , had already accepted European exhibitions for two of the gallery 's younger artists , and had had a piece requested for a public exhibition in Potsdam . |
| 12 | I 've got a piece to write for the Overseas Service . |
| 13 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 16 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 17 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 18 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 19 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 20 | It 's a girl looking for the middle son , Paul . |
| 21 | Smoke coming from a normally disused building , a vehicle heading for a deserted spot . |
| 22 | His reactions to a challenge and his mode of speech , his capacity , are all those of a boy trained for a certain duty but not distracted from his natural instincts and responses . |
| 23 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 24 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 25 | Surely an aircraft bound on an important secret mission deep into enemy-held eastern France would not be used simply as a tug for a glider bound for a different , nearer destination — somewhere in Normandy , perhaps — when the lives of the highly-skilled parachute troops in that ‘ tug ’ , and the success of the ultimate S.A.S. operation itself , might be put in jeopardy . |
| 26 | Students are admitted into a faculty to study for a particular degree . |
| 27 | Around this time , Bruckner likened himself to a watchdog that had slipped its chain ; and four-square as much of the Study Symphony is , it conveys just that sense of a barely-checked yearning for the epic symphonic tussles that Bruckner seems to have been fated to undertake . |
| 28 | The M forty itself between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both directions and a contraflow running for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , there 's also down to single line traffic at times . |
| 29 | Thus , on the facts of the Dodds case , where a landlord gave notice of termination of a tenancy of business premises under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 on the 30 September 1978 , the ‘ four month ’ period during which the tenant had a right to apply for a new tenancy expired at midnight on 30 January , and so his application made on 31 January 1979 was invalid as being out of time . |
| 30 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |