Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 2 | Now the Anyons will be returning on dives to search for the boat the sword guard came from . |
| 3 | The latter had been intended for the scrap-yard a short while earlier . |
| 4 | In this respect it is worth asking whether it is a mere coincidence that neo-colonialism produces for the bureaucracy a reversion to pre-bureaucratic ( e.g. medieval ) forms of compensation for service to the state . |
| 5 | The petitioning creditor must prepare for the hearing a list of all those creditors who have given notice of their intention to appear at the hearing and hand it in at the hearing(r6.24) . |
| 6 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 7 | Ariel began to long for the peace the latter draughts brought to her . |
| 8 | In the 1650s patriarch Nikon claimed for the Church an autonomy which exasperated Alexis I , the most pious and gentle of tsars . |
| 9 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 10 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 11 | So , forget for the moment the big tourist attraction : explore your local area . |
| 12 | We stopped for the night a mile down the road just out of sight . |
| 13 | ‘ The unemployed can not wait for the recovery the Tories are waiting for . |
| 14 | The purpose of doing so is to attempt to obtain for the landlord a higher rent than would be awarded by the court on an application for an interim rent under s24A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 15 | Accordingly , it was the duty of the solicitors who were instructing counsel to make this claim and who , in correspondence , had evinced an intention to seek an order for costs against the local authority because of the supposed failure of the local authority to discharge its duty properly , to provide for the court a detailed statement of those costs ; moreover , to prepare that statement with proper care . |
| 16 | Before applying for the order the LEA would normally have to consult the local authority social services committee . |
| 17 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 18 | Problems with the software have prevented for the moment the implementation of an automated indexing system . |
| 19 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 20 | In each of the 10 practices selected for the study the practice manager or lead fundholding clinician , or both , agreed to be interviewed . |
| 21 | MAS should ensure that when acting for the vendor the contents of the Information memorandum and any other correspondence , it and the rest of KADVISERG may have had with the purchaser is disclosed in the contract . |
| 22 | The runners in the group , when not occupied in pushing chairs , collected money in buckets on the way round and £330 was collected for the home the disabled athletes come from . |
| 23 | Nothing seems to happen here , remote from the rest of the world , yet one of the houses supplies weather reports to the BBC and achieves for the community a frequent mention . |
| 24 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 25 | He just came for the money every day . |
| 26 | Based on the assumption that the child has been in contact with at least some of the usual and varied sources of instruction and indoctrination , an answer from the parent along the following lines might carry for the child a ring of truth sufficient for him to accept , and be reassured . |
| 27 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |
| 28 | An engagement of sympathy on the side of the character who seems superficially to be the target figure constructs for the reader an unusual angle of vision on the events and characters of this fabliau . |
| 29 | And then you wait and look for the post every single day . |
| 30 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |