Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 2 | This amendment should ensure that there is a majority of elected members serving on the police authority , either by retaining the present two-thirds requirements , or by providing for a simple majority and they give two main reasons . |
| 3 | For which you auditioned with your drama school prepared pieces or by reading for the part ? |
| 4 | Similar to Bills of Exchange , it is possible to either roll over the debt by replacing a Note with another of longer tenor , or by asking for the payee 's consent to the extension of the maturity date . |
| 5 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is plausible that in looking for a way to relate a proper-named individual to one introduced by a noun , the processor would be dominated by stereotypical associations . |
| 7 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 8 | The Order of Things , although in many ways Foucault 's most influential work , remains , however , an oddity in certain respects : first , that in arguing for an a priori common to a ( limited ) number of knowledges , Foucault at times seems to be advocating a structural key between different levels within the episteme , thus restoring the form of the essential section so criticized by Althusser . |
| 9 | In fact , we 'd much rather spend any extra time available for getting these students through their modules than in trying for the additional assessment . |
| 10 | The massive exodus of the rural populace to towns in Spain or abroad , which began in earnest towards the end of the 1950s , bore witness to the priority given , in the Francoist scale of values , to preserving the patrimony of the strong , rather than to caring for the welfare of the weak . |
| 11 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 12 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
| 13 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 14 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 15 | He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ . |
| 16 | They took out large orders of tea and coffee on cardboard trays , and after wondering for a while if they were anything to do with the film business Lucy finally decided that every last one of them was probably either a builder or a shopfitter . |
| 17 | It will be a matter of making a good landing directly into wind , if that is possible , and of hoping for a minimum of damage to the glider . |
| 18 | The growth has come from privatisation of services provided in the public sectors , particularly healthcare and education and from catering for the public . |
| 19 | I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties . |
| 20 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
| 21 | This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father . |
| 22 | The difficulty lay both in defining the ‘ upper ’ and ‘ lower ’ limits of the stratum within the hierarchy of social status , and in allowing for the marked heterogeneity of its membership within those limits : there was always , at least , an accepted internal stratification into grande moyenne and petite bourgeoisie , the latter shading off into strata which would be de facto outside the class . |
| 23 | The proposal was accepted in principle by the French National Assembly , and in calling for a ‘ common European army ’ with a European ‘ minister of defence ’ , it was to be the basis of discussion about the establishment of a European Defence Community ( EDC ) . |
| 24 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 25 | The foreign oil producers were slow in supplying oil , and there were delays in loading and off-loading it ( and in waiting for a full ship-load ) . |
| 26 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 27 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 28 | He knocked briskly and without waiting for a bidding went in . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going for a walk , ’ Roman said abruptly as they left the dining-room , and without waiting for a reply he left her standing by the lifts . |
| 30 | And without waiting for an answer he jumped off the shelf and onto the next one . |