Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 2 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 3 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
| 4 | Finally , if he was prepared to visit Sanders to make the appointment , why not do so for the lessons as well ? ’ |
| 5 | At first the boys went straight for the cars as usual and the girls did n't notice . |
| 6 | Most fortunately for the Allies as it turned out , since within days Falkenhayn was to unleash all his troops from the area of fallen Antwerp , together with supplementary formations of volunteers , stiffened by regulars , in a massive stroke down the coastline , with the object of encircling the sanguine Joffre 's left flank . |