Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 2 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 3 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 4 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 5 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 6 | But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society . |
| 7 | The decision to search for a partner has been taken ‘ in the context of competing investment requirements ’ across the broad sweep of BAe 's business interests . |
| 8 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 9 | The applicant must file and serve the following documents on all parties and any guardian ad litem : ( i ) notice of appeal in writing , setting out grounds ; ( ii ) a certified copy of the summons or application , the order appealed against and any order staying its execution ; ( iii ) a copy of any notes of evidence ; and ( iv ) a copy of any reasons given for the decision . |
| 10 | The adviser will have to complete the relevant documentation based on the reasons given for the refusal of the application . |
| 11 | I have read carefully the reasons given for the record levels of inward investment that has come into the United Kingdom , including Wales . |
| 12 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 13 | In July 1947 , the Ministry asked for a statement concerning the hospital premises and funds . |
| 14 | Other experts fear for the future — MDMA damages nerve terminals in rats and monkeys , and there is a strong possibility that it causes similar damage in humans . |
| 15 | ‘ Bowlers allus goes for the man as is buildin' a ninnins. 'E 's the one they fear . |
| 16 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 17 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 18 | With ten minutes to go , Paul Whittington did well to tip the ball over the Milton bar on two occasions as Lane pressed for the equaliser . |
| 19 | Reading-based standards organisation X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of Digital Equipment Corp 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing : X/Open has licensed the company 's Remote Task Invocation technology , a protocol for implementing remote procedure calls developed for the Multivendor Integration Architecture consortium ; it is the basis of the Transactional Remote Procedure Call X/Open just released and unites OSI/TP and Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 20 | X/Open has licensed the company 's Remote Task Invocation ( RTI ) technology , a protocol for implementing remote procedure calls developed for the Multivendor Integration Architecture consortium . |
| 21 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 22 | The three groups competing for the right to develop the technology for high definition television are expected to sign an accord to pool resources to develop the standard , the Los Angeles Times reported : it said signing of the pact , which could accelerate introduction of HDTV , was imminent ; the groups involve General Instrument Corp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Zenith Electronics Corp and AT&T Co , and Philips Electronics NV , Thomson SA , Compression Labs Inc and the National Broadcasting Co arm of General Electric Co . |
| 23 | ‘ The decision to go for a greenfield site was taken in June , 1992 , and the countdown to Highbridge — a site within reach of all employees , with good motorway links — began soon afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 24 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 25 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 26 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 27 | I hope Kelly plays for the RoI . |
| 28 | BASIC INSTINCT is already famous , a ) for the precedent-setting and record-breaking three million bucks writer Joe Eszterhas got for the screenplay , and b ) for the concerted efforts of the American lesbian and gay community to harass the production because of its alleged depiction of lesbianism and bisexual women as homicidal maniacs , and standing outside theatres giving away the surprise ending . |
| 29 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 30 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |