Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 2 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 3 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 4 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 5 | Although retiring from office this year , warden Frank Wood will be carrying on responsibility for the general overseeing of the buildings and the Church Centre . |
| 6 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 7 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 8 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 9 | Following a meeting with Energy Minister Tim Eggar , Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards said he was convinced it was now up to the colliery management to present a strong enough case for the pit to be taken off the Government hit-list . |
| 10 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 11 | I tried to tell myself that the road was only practice for the desert . |
| 12 | The only down side for the solicitor is that you have to give a free half-hour interview to anyone coming to see you under the scheme , though most firms of solicitors nowadays will give this service in any event . |
| 13 | In addition they must also accept that they have within them emotions and feelings which , properly nurtured and utilised can provide , not only compensation for the surrender of unlimited sensual pleasure , but also a road to unlimited human happiness , a road which would be blocked if the choice were the first proposition . |
| 14 | In addition they must also accept that they have within them emotions and feelings which , properly nurtured and utilised can provide , not only compensation for the surrender of unlimited sensual pleasure , but also a road to unlimited human happiness , a road which would be blocked if the choice were the first proposition . |
| 15 | They either slept in a car or on the ground with a blanket , though in two days they would be far enough south for the nights to be warm . |
| 16 | Nobody 's interested in laying down wine for the future , when they 're dead : instead they 're all drinking up what 's been in the cellar for decades . |
| 17 | There was only room for the monkey . |
| 18 | The gauge is a difficult enough tool for a boy to use in his right hand , let alone the left ! |
| 19 | Thus there was obviously scope for the propagation of nonparty unorthodoxies at the grass-roots level . |
| 20 | It was a vague enough concept for the left-liberals to unite around , and became a kind of surrogate nationalism . |
| 21 | This , and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body , lent it much mystique for a time , ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone . |
| 22 | erm The tombs bear witness to this , there 's two governors actually , Sir William Pendon who died of one of the epidemics in Oxford and Sir Henry Gage who was another governor , who was only governor for a month because he was killed in a scuffle near Abingdon . |
| 23 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 24 | Programme award : BBC Nine O'Clock News for The September Currency Crisis . |
| 25 | By only charging for the meals and services you actually use , we are able to offer very low terms indeed for high class , 3 crown accommodation . |
| 26 | The growth of humanitarianism brought with it not only concern for the individual , but an increasing interest in the functioning of the human mind and unconscious thought . |
| 27 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
| 28 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 29 | In this regard , they are much better value as plants than such species roses as Rosa xanthina ‘ Canary Bird ’ and Rosa moyesii , both of which only flower for a couple of weeks during the early summer . |
| 30 | For a vacant Northumbria was not only prey for the sons of Godwin and for Mercia . |