Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was altogether too dignified and courteous for the rough and tumble of politics , was not a good debater , and left after less than eighteen months . |
| 2 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 3 | Mobile mums groups are for mums with ‘ mobile ’ toddlers who need toddler-proof houses but who are maybe not ready yet for the rough and tumble of Open houses . |
| 4 | It was created for a group of mums who felt their babies were too old for new mums but not yet ready for the rough and tumble of open houses . |
| 5 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 6 | A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice . |
| 7 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 8 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 9 | Artistic director Michael Dray said : ‘ This is not theatre for the deaf but theatre of the deaf . |
| 10 | that it came as no surprise that after six busy years with the Association she was appointed Deputy Head Teacher of the Doncaster School for the Deaf and Director of its Further Education Department . |
| 11 | His most important contract ( first with another carpenter , John Ball , and then on his own ) was for the deepening and wharfing of the Fleet ditch , an enormous task which employed 200 men , took two and a half years to finish ( 1672–4 ) , and brought him a gift of plate worth £200 from the City on its efficient completion . |
| 12 | Compared with the black and grey tones for the blue and red of the other roundels one might almost believe that on number five the roundel ring immediately inside the yellow is red and the inner spot is blue , although on this one the tail stripes appear similar to numbers one , two , four and six . |
| 13 | At a ceremony on board Pride of Calais recently , P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) , Managing Director , Les Stephenson received the British Standards Institution plaque and certificates from the then Secretary of State for the Environmental and MP for Folkestone and Hythe Michael Howard . |
| 14 | In Protestant countries since the Middle Ages , however , this struggle had become even more terrible and irrevocable , because the Reformation had renounced both prayers for the dead and purgatory as an intermediate stage , in which those who had committed venial sins might work their passage to a better world . |
| 15 | Zuwaya preferred not to employ one another but to enter into partnerships of a kind which created income for the wealthier and capital for the poorer man . |
| 16 | So it was that during a week long break from filming Neighbours in October 1987 Kylie boarded an airliner and left the sweltering sunshine of Melbourne for the cold and rain of an English autumn . |
| 17 | The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was founded as a ‘ Physic Garden ’ in 1670 by Sir Robert Sibbald and Sir Andrew Balfour , for the growing and study of medicinal plants for the use of the physicians of the town . |
| 18 | Saucony has always had a strong reputation for the fit and comfort of its shoes , GRID builds on this reputation . |
| 19 | Instead she was cautioned ; the official term for a telling-off and warning by police . |
| 20 | To the extent that there is an elision in the terms of debate , and the concept of postmodern arrangements is aligned only with a ‘ free ’ labour market variant of organizational forms , which actually means freedom for a few and restriction to much more repressive conditions for the many , then the terms of debate and choice are unnecessarily restricted . |
| 21 | Based with Knowsley Social Services in Kirkby , Carol 's role is to provide information , advice and support to those caring for a relative or friend with a mental health problems in the Knowlsey area . |
| 22 | They stressed UNLU 's moderate demands , calling for a two state solution , mutual recognition , direct Israeli-PLO negotiations , concluding ‘ the Palestinians are calling for no more than peace with a reasonable measure of justice . ’ |