Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that the cut of £19.9 million from £262 million in the 1992-93 budget is a dramatic reduction given that the proposal for the programme of building and house repairs in Northern Ireland agreed by the Government was already the lowest in the history of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive ? |
| 2 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 3 | Broken Scar supplies half the water for Teesdale , Darlington and Teesside homes , with the remainder coming from Lartington Treatment Works . |
| 4 | A good chance of exciting winds and a wide range of dinghies , catamarans and windsurfers make this a paradise for more experienced sailors , while there 's a sheltered corner and a shallow sandy beach for families with younger children . |
| 5 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 6 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 7 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 8 | Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle ! |
| 9 | I do not consider that a ground for complaint . |
| 10 | Finally , the gap between coverage of the Conservative and Labour Parties widens as the ladder of parliamentary status is ascended , being quite marked at the Prime Minister/Leader of the Opposition level ; Blumler found this a cause for some concern . |
| 11 | ‘ I could not possibly consider such a commission for less than five hundred roubles . ’ |
| 12 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
| 13 | The framework knitters enjoyed such a time between 1755 and 1785 , continuing to some extent to 1804 , and William Radcliffe described such an age for cotton hand-loom weavers from 1788 to 1803 . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
| 15 | He has such a capacity for unreflecting cruelty now . |
| 16 | Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally , he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic |
| 17 | I 've got to go out and buy all the cloth for the new costumes in The Tempest . |
| 18 | It is hardly correct , however , to suggest on the basis of this comment that it was partly from a sense of humility , and partly from a reluctance to accept all the credit for himself , that Gandhi acknowledged his indebtedness to Tolstoy 's ideas . |
| 19 | The closest thing to an acknowledgement of what this might be comes at the end of the splendid description of a whale-hunt , which has all the care for technical precision of a Del Giudice ( 71–7 ) , when the old whaler asks the narrator why he wanted to join the expedition that day , whether it was just out of curiosity ( 76–7 ) . |
| 20 | Basta , che sol tu chieda ’ has all the solemnity for which we most admire the great bass arias from Messiah . |
| 21 | ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials . |
| 22 | ‘ And hope my up-and-coming team-mate here has n't decided to annihilate me and grab all the glory for himself . ’ |
| 23 | The most negative moment of withdrawal contains all the potential for new growth . |
| 24 | Confined by the cell membrane the cytoplasm contains all the machinery for production of energy and cell growth ; and there are also structures in the cytoplasm which can generate forces to change the shape of the cell , resulting in cell movement . |
| 25 | We stopped all the time for no reason . |
| 26 | However , this ‘ back door ’ method places all the burden for scoring on the application , which is far from ideal . |
| 27 | And mum always used to say that 's what gave you that hernia that walking all the way for food ! |
| 28 | Clearly , such an arrangement necessitates the use of more elaborate and comprehensive timber framing than would be employed in a narrow barn where masonry walls provide all the support for the roof . |
| 29 | The nature of the Church and its tradition were central to the unfinished business from Vatican I ; Modernism and the Roman reaction to it had left serious questions about the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible and about the development of doctrine ; the Liturgical Movement was already revealing both the need for major pastoral renewal and a vision of what its fruits could be , not merely inside the Catholic Church but also in its ecumenical relations . |
| 30 | Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers . |