Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the gap between coverage of the Conservative and Labour Parties widens as the ladder of parliamentary status is ascended , being quite marked at the Prime Minister/Leader of the Opposition level ; Blumler found this a cause for some concern . |
| 2 | The framework knitters enjoyed such a time between 1755 and 1785 , continuing to some extent to 1804 , and William Radcliffe described such an age for cotton hand-loom weavers from 1788 to 1803 . |
| 3 | We stopped all the time for no reason . |
| 4 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 5 | In May 1227 he granted such a charter for the greater part of Berkshire , and in June 1228 for most of the forest in Gloucestershire east of the Severn ; in October 1229 for Ombersley and Horewell in Worcestershire ; and in April 1230 for Kesteven in Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 7 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 8 | Sullivan , however , hit back with a last-gasp 7-6 win in the next set to force the decider , but Duff led all the way for a 7-3 win . |
| 9 | And that made all the difference for them . |
| 10 | McLeish agreed with her promptly and she raised half a smile for him . |
| 11 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 12 | It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow . |
| 13 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 14 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 15 | They feared such a punishment for insolently pointing out that Mrs Thatcher 's pet plan for student loans was a non-starter . |
| 16 | That was why my father chose such a name for my new brother . |
| 17 | Hanns , when he joined in , ‘ did all the décor for the performances and designed costumes , handled the light and sound ( and fire ! ) effects ’ and thus presaged their cooperation on John 's first ballets . |
| 18 | ‘ At Southampton , he did n't score that many but did all the work for others — now he does the work and scores heavily . |
| 19 | He had two foremans worked under him , the purpose being they did the shifts , my father did all the writing for the Great Central Railway Depot , the marshalling yard or sorting out the trains . |
| 20 | The jet bombers going over , going over , going over , one two , one two , one two , six of them , nine of them , twelve of them , one and one and one and another and another and another , did all the screaming for him . ’ |
| 21 | I read two a day for two years and forgot them . |
| 22 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 23 | She had such a capacity for joy that she overcame such negative feelings , ’ Bettina explained . |
| 24 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 25 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 26 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 27 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 28 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 29 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 30 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |