Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success is when you relax in an armchair on Friday evening , have a drink with your partner and forget about work for the weekend . |
| 2 | In 1529 the reading , purchasing or possessing of proscribed books , attendance at any meeting of heretics , disputing about Holy Scripture , and want of respect for the images of God and the saints were all made crimes for which men were to be beheaded , women buried alive , and relapsed heretics burned . |
| 3 | As India 's leading political parties shift into gear for the forthcoming general election campaign , no fewer than three of the ex-Maharajah 's once-royal relatives are jostling for the right to contest the Bharatpur seat . |
| 4 | Physical gratification often plays a contributing role in the exercise of persuasion : what does the marketing manager expect in return for the expensive lunch she 's buying you ? |
| 5 | The Mazda club , based in Hiroshima , want in time for the start of their season . |
| 6 | Instead they send to Shiloh for the ark . |
| 7 | The Bridge has two and a half thousand steel wires running through its spans which act as support for the concrete . |
| 8 | By way of background information , some EPHs operate with a hierarchical structure of an Officer-in-charge ( ie the manager ) with 3 assistant officers , one of whom would be appointed as the Senior Assistant and act as deputy for the Officer-in-charge when required . |
| 9 | That this is heartening , and cause for hope for the future , is due to its existence being unaffected by all the philosophies , religions , superstitions , political systems and cults that have ever been formulated . |
| 10 | Thank you for your letter of the 5 November 1992 enclosing the District Councils request for information for the preparation of the district wide local plan . |
| 11 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 12 | Take one cockroach , marinate in wine for a day , fry it in beef fat and smother with chocolate — it tastes delicious , says China 's Yangcheng Daily newspaper . |
| 13 | We now wait in suspense for the banker to turn the cards over . |
| 14 | Reporting profits of £1.3m , up from just £300,000 last time , Acorn Computer Group Plc says that although there was pricing and therefore margin pressure across the industry , its differentiated technology and focus on value for the customer enabled it to maintain strong gross margins . |
| 15 | As we 've noted , all forms of life on Earth depend on water for the simple reason that life 's very origin on this planet involved water . |
| 16 | With the component values specified , around switch S1 , these rates are approximately 8 , 12 and 20 pulses per second and these seem about right for the game as the author has played it . |
| 17 | Being both eminent authors and psychotic persons our sample is scarcely representative , either of writers or of the mentally ill and therefore can not , by itself , stand as evidence for the supposed connection between creativity and insanity . |
| 18 | They tune into satellite for the extra choice , not the quality of programmes . |
| 19 | Work should therefore be rapid and finish in time for the Louvre 's exhibition of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ which is going ahead as scheduled at the end of September . |
| 20 | But , before then , further domestic pickings lie in store for the Mark Johnston-trained five-year-old , who returned to the scene of last season 's Ebor triumph to preserve his 100 per cent Knavesmire record . |
| 21 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 22 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 23 | We look to Government for a public commitment to maintain this principle . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Everybody muster on deck for the roll call ! |
| 25 | not not look at go for the customers and the deals I think and all that the backup . |
| 26 | For example , Andre Agassi uses Kevlar for the main ( vertical ) strings and Babolat VS gut for the cross strings to add ‘ resilience ’ to the strings — that is improving the strings ' ability to regain their original shape after impact with the ball . |
| 27 | Within Scotland , the largest proportions of overseas researchers on Scottish geology are in Strathclyde and Dundee , and it may very well be that the difficulties such researchers experience in publishing their results account in part for the low productivity of these departments compared to those in other universities . |
| 28 | Within Scotland , the largest proportions of overseas researchers on Scottish geology are in Strathclyde and Dundee , and it may very well be that the difficulties such researchers experience in publishing their results account in part for the low productivity of these departments compared to those in other universities . |
| 29 | The staples remain in position for the cable to be put back as required , and certainly look neater . |
| 30 | In the UK , songs remain in copyright for the lifetime of the composer plus fifty years . |