Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two considered the treatment of poverty and idleness : Grevos Grones for the Poor ( 1622 ) and The Poore Orphans Court ( 1636 ) . |
| 2 | For 30 years , Niyogi fought for the social and economic improvement of oppressed people . |
| 3 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 4 | Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 . |
| 5 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 6 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 7 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 8 | It becomes clear from the expressions used by Lord Wright speaking for the Privy Council to describe the duty and its breach , the important and significant date in relation thereto was not the date of manufacture but when the damage occurred : see also Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , 1960 S.C . ( H.L. ) 92 . |
| 9 | Georgina arranged for the wooden bridge over the lake to be replaced with the stone bridge of classical design , by Wyatt , who also had designed the wings of the Palladian Villa . |
| 10 | This followed United States calls for a multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons development programme [ see also this page ] . |
| 11 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 12 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 13 | In Scale 2 Hilton talks of his understanding of the dynamic nature of God 's love working in man : The goal of contemplative life is to see this , a seeing which is a felt understanding of love , and Hilton accounts for the curious process by which a person grows towards this state as the interaction between the being of God — unformed love in which all men participate — and the response enabled by God to this dynamic potential at the heart of their being — love formed . |
| 14 | Ridley Scott compensates for the clanking concept of culture-clash cops with customary confidence . |
| 15 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 16 | A flurry of complications ensues : Richard falls for the winsome Anna , though not even love can blind him to the realisation that her poetry is ‘ absolutely bloody awful ’ . |
| 17 | Uwe Otten , H.P. Lorenz and F. Busiger of the University of Basel and Hoffmann-La Roche looked for a possible connection with the protein nerve growth factor ( NGF ) . |
| 18 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 19 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 20 | On May 25 India reacted by expelling from Delhi two Pakistani diplomats of similar rank , and on May 26 called off talks with Pakistan scheduled for the following week . |
| 21 | During a break in which the designer 's assistant smeared the mirror above the fireplace with vaseline — ; Meredith had complained it reflected too much light — Dawn Allenby apologised for the drenching smell of eau de Cologne that pervaded her person . |
| 22 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 23 | Crevecoeur had for a brief , intoxicating time enjoyed intimate relations with Ms Micklemas , an affair whose firepower had been skyfilling and radiant and whose energy devoured itself within two weeks . |
| 24 | You do n't need guests , you do n't need freezing weather or any other excuse to put pudding on the menu — although it is true that a good pudding shared with like-minded Billy Bunters makes for a convivial party , and if the day dawns cold and frosty it may give an agreeable edge to appetites . |
| 25 | Sahnoun appealed for a large increase in the amount of aid promised . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 27 | WHEN NEWS filtered through that The Cure were set to release an album of dance remixes , angst-ridden sixth-formers from Bristol to Bangor opted for the only avenue open to them : suicide . |
| 28 | WHEN NEWS filtered through that The Cure were set to release an album of dance remixes , angst-ridden sixth-formers from Bristol to Bangor opted for the only avenue open to them : suicide . |
| 29 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 30 | At the end of the month , Raybestos and the IDA applied for a temporary injunction to prevent Michael Lenihan of Ringaskiddy , and anyone acting on his behalf , from picketing the dump site . |