Example sentences of "[noun] for [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 2 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 3 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 4 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 5 | There is an important methodological point worth discussing here , for Freud points out that it is not possible simply to take what people themselves say are the reasons for the taboos they practise , for if the reasons are unconscious , they will not be able to do this . |
| 6 | ‘ People do n't always have logical reasons for the things they do ! |
| 7 | When our Party Secretary General , Salvador Cayetano Carpio. started a hunger strike for a wage rise for the bakers we helped out . |
| 8 | Official reports into local government administration have in the past been extremely coy about the significance of such Partisanship for the matters they investigated . |
| 9 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 10 | Even the king was not sorry that Priestley was ‘ the sufferer for the doctrines he and his party have instilled ’ . |
| 11 | He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing . |
| 12 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 13 | Watt found great difficulty in working with the Cornish mine captains and obtaining from them full payment for the engines they had built or modified . |
| 14 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 15 | The guardians proposed that the Borough would contribute a quarter of the cost of the building and payment for the patients they sent . |
| 16 | In text b the problem of interpretation arises because of not knowing the referents for the expressions He , them , on that occasion and them and not having a value to fix the time expression today . |
| 17 | The mixture between cajun , bluegrass and boogie styles was almost seamless and all gained from the five musicians ' vigour and enthusiasm for the songs they were playing . |
| 18 | She pours withering scorn upon such ‘ painted poupées ’ as Joan Collins and Liz Taylor for the hours they devote to their images , as well as the men they choose as partners , but one look at the deep lines of bitterness etched into the faces of those women who renounce loving relationships in favour of cats , gardens or anything else tells me all I need to know . |
| 19 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 20 | Clothes buying is hardly Yuri 's preferred foreign pastime , though : ‘ When I travel , I prefer to sneak off to look at cars and buy accessories for the ones I have at home — a Volvo , an Audi , a Volkswagen , a Japanese Micro bus — and my favourite , an old Chevrolet . |
| 21 | No doubt , though the Dalgliesh , the old warrior was unaware that other schools existed ; like every other class , the aristocracy , however poor , could always find the money for the things they really wanted . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got nearly enough money for the things I want , and my brother , Robert , is a lord — Lord Burlesdon . |
| 23 | Obviously when you budget you have to allow the most money for the rooms you arc actually going to live in , but once you have decided on what cash is available you must turn considerable thought and care — if not money — to making your hall as warm and welcoming and practical as you can . |
| 24 | Although it is a commercial decision for the banks we can see no reason for the delay , ’ said one . |
| 25 | Cinestra offers a regular training programme , and for the past few years has operated a highly successful bursary scheme for new video makers which also offers practical production experience for the women they train . |
| 26 | She was taking her revenge now on Bathsheba for the difficulties she had experienced in her life . |
| 27 | Because people buy products for the benefits they confer , successful salespeople relate product features to consumer benefits ; product features are the means by which benefits are derived . |
| 28 | The parasites will be blasted a hundred times for the indignities they have inflicted on us ! ’ |
| 29 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 30 | Obsessed by recordings of Gigli 's voice , his life has become a shadowy search for the answers he feels only Gigli can provide . |