Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The absence of any accepted divorce procedures , for instance , was probably one of the reasons for the rituals of ‘ wife sales ’ in the nineteenth century , continuing until at least the 1880s .
2 There are two main reasons for the changes in these proportions .
3 whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy .
4 The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility .
5 Leigh concluded that the brooches he considered were the products of a single workshop although there may , yet , be other reasons for the degrees of similarity he observed ; it is these which are actually being assessed , not whether or not they originated from one workshop .
6 Your opponent will almost certainly require you to produce receipted accounts for the disbursements in respect of which you are seeking payment .
7 The swastika lozenge ( at North Hill and Box ) or swastika in a tilted square ( Culver Street ) is a common motif ; as are triangles ( hollowed at Rapsley and North Hill ) , reversed and used as fillers for the spaces between lozenges .
8 The major reason for limited liability was not the desire of business firms to expand but the need to find relatively safe investments for the funds of small savers .
9 Although there is no express statutory provision to this effect , contracts traded on other futures exchanges would also be treated as for investment purposes , and hence are investments for the purposes of the Act .
10 In all first-class cricket , including several fiery outings for the Gentlemen versus the Players , he took 720 wickets at an average of 20.55 each .
11 Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s .
12 Section 1(2) of the Act states that the following are not inventions for the purposes of the Act : ( a ) a discovery , scientific theory or mathematical method ; ( b ) a literary , dramatic , musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever ; ( c ) a scheme , rule or method for performing any mental act , playing a game or doing business , or a program for a computer ; ( d ) the presentation of information ; but the foregoing provision shall prevent anything from being treated as an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or application for a patent relates to that thing as such ( emphasis added )
13 It happens to be part of a small chain of hotels , but you can ignore the broader aspects of the company 's activities for the purposes of this particular case and treat it simply as a problem in unit management .
14 To satisfy the court that these conditions have been met , it is necessary to obtain either oral testimony or , in the vast majority of cases , a signed statement from the person that occupies ‘ a responsible position in relation to the management of the activities for the purposes of which the computer was used ’ ( s.5(4) ) .
15 But while they are determined to make hay while the sun shines , farmers are still watching the monetary horizons for the clouds of revaluation and are ready to scamper for figurative shelter if the rains of realignment fall .
16 Using yellow-brown trimmings , cut out three thin strips for the straps on each of the four doors , and position diagonally across each door , securing on with a dampened paint brush .
17 To produce a further copy , albeit for the purposes of obtaining advice , was closely parallel to obtaining further copies for the purposes of litigation when the original was not privileged , so that Chadwick v Bowman ( 1886 ) 16 QBD 561 was closely in point .
18 Some of the plans for the designs of the pageant wagons have survived , but not for the Assumption so much research had to be undertaken .
19 Attached are the proposed full plans for the apartments with approximate measurements , together with proposed front and side elevations .
20 The meeting sorry the meeting this evening is quite clearly is to talk about get your views on how best to plan the programmes for the facilities for the future .
21 Our results demonstrate that the clusters of basic amino acids are more important than the zinc fingers for the interactions of NC protein with DNA in vitro , although a role for the zinc fingers in specificity of interaction or in facilitating its many functions can not be excluded .
22 As I understood the submission , the Attorney-General was not contending that the use of Parliamentary material by the courts for the purposes of construction would constitute an ‘ impeachment ’ of freedom of speech since impeachment is limited to cases where a Member of Parliament is sought to be made liable , either in criminal or civil proceeding , for what he has said in Parliament , e.g. , by criminal prosecution , by action for libel or by seeking to prove malice on the basis of such words .
23 Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review .
24 Much of the functionality of GIS lies with their ability to overlay one or more digital maps for the purposes of Boolean or network analyses .
25 Work on the subsurface using seismic data has resulted in depth-converted or two-way-travel-time contoured maps for the tops of Variscan , White Lias , Inferior Oolite , Cornbrash and Corallian strata .
26 For example , the basic scales for the chords of Cmaj7 and Fmaj7 generate six common notes :
27 In addition , he presented the Center with a trove of illuminated books by William Blake including America , Europe , Urizen and the only complete hand-coloured copy of Jerusalem along with Blake 's watercolour illustrations for the poems of Thomas Gray .
28 Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores .
29 I am simply going to sit in his studio for perhaps three hours for the mornings of the next few weeks and Murphy shall take me and bring me back and Lyddy shall sit close by me and I will take Janet too if you would allow me — ’
30 an agreed departmental policy on the sizes of teaching groups appropriate for the different modes of teaching used in different subject areas and the provision of sufficient staff hours for the modules to be taught in these ways ;
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