Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competition was tough with 304 UK projects competing for the honours . |
| 2 | Amongst those groups bidding for the farms were Lonrho , the United Kingdom-based multinational , and the Portuguese group Espírito Santo which had considerable land holdings in the colonial period . |
| 3 | ‘ CAN YOU do an exploding monster drawing for the letters page ? ’ enquired the then art editor over the ‘ phone . |
| 4 | Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer . |
| 5 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 6 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 7 | To the psychologist searching for the determinants of personality this sort of outcome is disappointing ; to the parent , on the other hand , it should be good news . |
| 8 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 9 | There probably was n't a Nazi agent amongst them , but they were all local spivs touting for the Nazis . |
| 10 | A lawyer speaking for the families said they would be appealing against the Place of Safety orders , and that the appeal would be heard the following day in Kirkwall Sheriff Court . |
| 11 | A director of one licensed dealer rang up a former employee working for a stockbrokers , addressing him as follows : " You took our clients with you , you little shit . |
| 12 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 13 | The papers of counsel acting for the plaintiffs in a pending action in the Commercial Court were mistakenly sent to the solicitors for the other side . |
| 14 | Mrs Bessie Forde , then a member of the choir , recalls how any girl actively interested in church life could spend the week : Monday evening the Junior and Senior CE Societies ; Tuesday and Thursday evenings the GLB company , led by Mrs Waugh and Miss Mildred Forsythe , met regularly in Edenderry ) ; Wednesday the Midweek service ; Friday the choir practice and on Saturday a prayer meeting for the services on Sunday . |
| 15 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 16 | Solicitors acting for the pupils and their families asked for all 334 children to be screened for psychological sequelae to the disaster . |
| 17 | about the army helicopters heading for the clouds ? |
| 18 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 19 | The residents have presented a petition to the council calling for the plans to be shelved until an alternative access to the site can be found . |
| 20 | Some composers have written eucharistic settings in traditional vein providing for the needs of choirs with limited resources and expertise . |
| 21 | Participating countries pledged US$152 million as well as logistical support to build winter housing for the refugees and to maintain humanitarian road convoys inside Bosnia ( to relieve beseiged cities such as Sarajevo and Gorazde ) . |
| 22 | I bought the biggest mastiffs I could find and sent the beggars screaming for the trees , at least for a while . |
| 23 | All we lack now is the mechanism to turn these highly decorative cadavers into walkie , if not talkie , zombies , to enable them to give a truly remarkable mannequin parade and show off their mortuary gowns in white polyester and cotton , trimmed with lace and ruffles for ladies and satin quilting for the gents ! |
| 24 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 25 | Out of sixteen instances , four were shopkeepers , one a hotel proprietor , one in insurance , and four were farmers ; and nearly all provided either houses — in one case paying for the maids , coal , and gas as well — or land . |
| 26 | We sat for about an hour waiting for the bargemen to wake . |
| 27 | Or are you just gritting your teeth waiting for the neighbours to turn the stereo on full blast or start a spot of DIY ? |
| 28 | Striker Baxter could be first to leave in a £12,000 move to Distillery , a record signing for the Whites . |
| 29 | It 's not unusual — kids from the northern cities growing a racial conscience along with their back teeth , inventing something called Real America , hanging round the reservations looking for the spirits of someone 's goddamn ancestors . |
| 30 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |