Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 2 | Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze , Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment . |
| 3 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 4 | Building societies are a bit naughty in that they 're regularly advertising rates at over fifty thousand pounds , the Loughborough do it for one , in er my local paper . |
| 5 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 6 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 7 | ‘ How much does the Prince pay you for being a colonel ? ’ |
| 8 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 9 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 10 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 11 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
| 12 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 13 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 14 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 15 | Ideally , you should be able to go to your VDU terminal , pass through the necessary security controls , input information , have the computer check it for you , enquire on particular elements or records of information , produce ad hoc or regular print outs and produce graphical output with simple commands . |
| 16 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 17 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 18 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 19 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 20 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 21 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 22 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 23 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 24 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 25 | The sister watched her for a while , then sent the nurse on an errand . |
| 26 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 27 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 28 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 29 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 30 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |