Example sentences of "[art] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 2 | Is it really beyond the realms of the possible for the international community to put any tangible pressure on Ceausescu ? |
| 3 | Jargon and quirkiness assail him at times like passing attacks of cramp , but in the main he is always on the alert for a new ‘ angle ’ , always individual in expression and always ready to usher the most illuminating quotations to their correct places with the discreet poise of a butler from his chosen period . |
| 4 | This is the 10th year the Celebrities Guild has presented its Unsung Heroes Awards to people who help the disadvantaged for no personal reward . |
| 5 | One law for the rich and another for the poor , as the two systems can be made to seem , are laid down together in a book which commemorates a desertion , on the author 's part , of the rich for the poor . |
| 6 | Given that 100 companies are going under every week in the west midlands and that 1,000 companies are going under in England , Scotland and Wales , will the Secretary of State apologise to business and to the unemployed for the false promise throughout 1991 of a recovery which never materalised ? |
| 7 | But although he sacrifices the transitory for the long-term , the latter are not differently or more solidly grounded ; indeed they are in danger of becoming rigid and brittle if they are not continually being enriched , modified and eroded by local and temporary reactions . |
| 8 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
| 9 | Burridge cost the Palace £40,000 when he joined the club from Aston Villa , but he became part of the Palace 's best-ever defence , for the 24 League goals conceded in 1978–79 were the lowest for a single season in the club 's history while John 's 21 ‘ clean-sheets ’ that season was also the best-ever by a goalkeeper here . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ While the number of homes in possession at the end of 1991 was the highest ever at 160 , the previous highest figure was 116 in June 1988 , when the mortgage rate of 9.75pc was the lowest for the past 13 years . |
| 11 | It 's the last I 'll see of the outside for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | They were simple creatures , made of two layers of cells , one on the outside and one on the inside , with every part of the body within reach of the outside for the efficient transport of nutrients and wastes . |
| 13 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |
| 14 | Daylight was in fact one of the conditions laid down by the curators Vincent Pomarede , Marie-Catherine Sahut and Sylvain Laveissiere in the brief for the new galleries , together with the integration of views of the Seine and of the Louvre . |
| 15 | Lydia , herself an inveterate explorer , was now aware that her three years in Java had been quite enough of an inner workout , and she returned to Europe to comb the Mediterranean for a solitary place to centre herself . |
| 16 | Women as subject was however an essential means of attainment of the ideal for the male sculptor . |
| 17 | No-one is making any great claims for Neil Jenkins — which borders on the unique for a Welsh stand-off — but many are persuaded he will be a different player for his part in an historic triumph . |
| 18 | With colonialism it 's easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys , which makes it tempting to substitute the colonized for the lost working class . |
| 19 | Waddle switches to the left for the injured Barnes and Parker plays at right-back instead of Stevens . |
| 20 | Only gradually was the distaste of the Left for the National government shared by any appreciable section of public opinion . |
| 21 | A police spokesman in Soisy-sous-Montmorency , northern France , said : ‘ Someone swapped the blank for a real bullet . |
| 22 | The best age for superovulation is usually in the range of 3 — 5 weeks the optimum for a given genotype being within 4–6 days . |
| 23 | It is in fact all the better for a prolonged wait in the cold . |
| 24 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 25 | They will have less exhausting and dangerous weekend travel and the cricket they play on Sundays , although some habitual spectators may object to missing their Sunday lunch , should be all the better for the extra 10 overs . |
| 26 | PFS expects to be back in the black for the full year . |
| 27 | It should be noted that the circuit assumes that both contact breakers interrupt the current for an identical proportion of the cycle . |
| 28 | However 1980 , it seemed , just might represent a genuine national shift towards conservatism thereby providing the underpinning for a new alignment of electoral forces to replace the Democratic coalition founded by Franklin Roosevelt . |
| 29 | The duty of the police when they arrest without warrant is , no doubt , to be quick to see the possibility of crime , but equally they ought to be anxious to avoid mistaking the innocent for the guilty … |
| 30 | And then we 're looking at May the thirteenth for the annual meeting of the parish council . |