Example sentences of "[conj] for [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Well I 'm very grateful to Mr for raising this in such a way and for the members ' contribution . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
4 | As for the newspapers ' verdict on his conduct , that was never in doubt . |
5 | As for the investors ' representatives , businessman John Dyer and his committee at BCIG and Antony Gold and David Pine at Alexander Tatham yesterday represented almost the end of a daily nightmare . |
6 | As for the Essenes ' supposed non-violence , there is significant evidence to disprove it . |
7 | As for the Webbs ' insistence on the separate and restricted role for trade unionism , the practical effect was , once again , to abandon industrial democracy , to accept that the rights of working people at work remained the rights inhering in the property they owned : their labour , and nothing more . |
8 | Next in the score is a page left blank , apart from clefs for four-part strings , with the same key- and time signatures as for the Haymakers ' scene , and the heading ‘ Dance for a Clown ’ . |