Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for [art] [noun] " 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 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In July 1947 , the Ministry asked for a statement concerning the hospital premises and funds . |
| 5 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 6 | Rodney Hampton ran for 138 yards and Jeff Hostetler passed for a pair of touchdowns . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Pozzo , ’ Haverford translated for the benefit of the English present . |
| 9 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 10 | The buyer asked for a copy of the restrictions ; they were not forthcoming , the seller having no copy . |
| 11 | One branch asked for a dispensation . |
| 12 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | With her new role Alison qualified for a company car . |
| 14 | The 25-year-old QPR striker , who once had the blood of a slaughtered sheep smothered on his forehead and boots in Turkey , was the only new name Graham Taylor announced for the November 18 game . |
| 15 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | De la Mare asked for the Earl of March to be appointed to the advisory group , together with the Earls of Warwick , Stafford and Suffolk . |
| 17 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 18 | Having evaded the other Fiats , Taylour headed for the carrier with his wounded TAG , where only prompt and skilful action by the ‘ Ark 's , surgeon prevented the loss of Howard 's leg . |
| 19 | The board flickered for a second or two , then slowly faded until it was gone , and Quiss was left sitting looking angrily at the small wooden table . |
| 20 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 21 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 22 | The dark hole of the ship 's innards gaped for a moment . |
| 23 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 24 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 25 | The previous chapter argued for a conception of music which maintains both the relative autonomy of its techniques and its ultimately social meaning , and which sees these as constructed within a historical dialectic . |
| 26 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 27 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 28 | On 16 March 1992 Wright applied for an extension of time in which to renew his application for leave to appeal against conviction and the application was listed to be heard on the same day as Christou 's appeal . |
| 29 | But did you say Madge asked for the keys ? |
| 30 | I take a hotel on the rue Larbi Ben M'Hidi , formerly the rue d'Arzew where Camus lived for a while , a street of arcades and white buildings with yellow ornamentation . |