Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 32 | Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology . |
| 33 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 34 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 35 | And impressive though it is , at the moment , the mural will remain for the owner 's eyes only . |
| 36 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 37 | No , it seems that the drifter will remain for the time being in the form of the original although we will keep working on it . |
| 38 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 39 | The majority of opinion reports from the SD and other agencies of the regime reaching the Nazi leadership point nevertheless towards conclusions about the impact on morale similar to those we have witnessed for the Schweinfurt area . |
| 40 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 41 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 42 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 43 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 44 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 45 | Despite the stronger US dollar in the latter part of 1992 , the average sterling price of oil realised for the year at £10.95 per barrel [ 1991 £11.00 ] was also marginally lower . |
| 46 | Essentially , of course , a freehold is seen as an appreciating asset the value of which can be realised for the benefit of the firm free from tax ( where the proceeds of sale are reinvested in other firm property ) . |
| 47 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 48 | Hate for a man . |
| 49 | Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives . |
| 50 | I 've been told there 's no real translation in any language for the English conception of fair , which is oblique justice redefined for every circumstance . |
| 51 | But I do n't think there 'll be any to spare for a day or two . |
| 52 | That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Let me think for a while . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
| 55 | Do n't think for a minute I 'm jealous . |
| 56 | Naturally I did n't think for a minute that my life and spirit could stimulate her . |
| 57 | I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies . |
| 58 | I do n't think for a minute we 'll have to . ’ |
| 59 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |