Example sentences of "[vb past] an [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After setting out the facts , the judgment of the Court of Appeal , delivered by Lord Lane C.J. , first dealt with and dismissed an argument for the respondent based on chapter 29 of Magna Carta 1225 ( 9 Hen . |
| 2 | Hastily , he reached for another bottle of beer and opened it , while Hank droned on : ‘ So I entered an essay for the No Smoking essay competition … . ‘ |
| 3 | Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots . |
| 4 | ‘ So we went through Thom 's mail and found an invoice for the furniture shipment to New Jersey . |
| 5 | Spruce , turning the pages idly , found an entry for a Monday in February 1877 : three pupils had been beaten for disorderly behaviour in church the previous Sunday . |
| 6 | The Queen 's Bench Division ( Watkin Williams and Mathew n. ) discharged an order for a new trial on the ground of misdirection . |
| 7 | As ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester and former chairman of that City Corporation 's Housing Committee , his experience led him to demonstrate that : The return of a Labour Government in 1929 provided an opportunity for a different approach . |
| 8 | The resignation of the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , early in 1938 provided an opportunity for the popular forces to intervene . |
| 9 | Internal dynastic disputes in Hungary in the fourteenth century , and the advance of the Turks into Serbia following the fall of Dušan 's empire , weakened Bosnia 's opponents and provided an opportunity for the revival of the spirit of independence . |
| 10 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 11 | The first of these summit meetings took place at Geneva in November 1985 ; it provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on the progress made at the arms talks and on regional issues . |
| 12 | Thenceforth his symphonic music inscrutably presented the emotions — albeit largely ironically — that the State expected from its leading composer while the quartets provided an outlet for the emotions within and for his personal responses to the event taking place in the world around him . |
| 13 | The Malayan Emergency gave the RAAF extensive experience in post-war jungle operations and provided an edge for the crews that flew over South Vietnam in the next decade . |
| 14 | Magistrates rejected an application for the press to be excluded from the hearing . |
| 15 | He prepared an instruction for the King 's signature , declaring that the Macdonalds of Glencoe were to be pursued ‘ by fire and sword ’ and that troops were to ‘ burn their houses , seize or destroy their goods or cattle , plenishings or clothes , and to cut off the men . ’ |
| 16 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 17 | Russel Rome , who is being sponsored by the company and is studying at Glasgow University , received an award for the most outstanding HNC student and his brother Robert , a third year student instrument apprentice , won the most outstanding ONC student prize . |
| 18 | The 31-year-old job hunter was delighted when she received an appointment for a job interview . |
| 19 | The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method . |
| 20 | To have a Coronation Street star and Cilla Black introducing your rallies showed an eye for the bathetic . |
| 21 | COUNCILLORS yesterday approved an application for a £2 million patients ' hotel to be built at Glasgow Western Infirmary . |
| 22 | However , Gross ( 1972 ) obtained an advantage for the left visual field in recall of partially shaded grid matrices and Fontenot ( 1973 ) , Dee and Hannay ( 1973 ) and Dee and Fontenot ( 1973 ) found a left field superiority in recall of random shapes . |
| 23 | Tell you what it could be , ah hang on a minute , I ordered an extension for a bloody for a phone for that office , it could be the phone that 's doing it in that office there I know , I know it could be corrupting , you know on the mark one the big one , the old generation mark one |
| 24 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 25 | The Scottish Civic Trust awarded each of the participants a commemorative plaque because of the quality of their work , and the British Tourist Authority made an award for the over-all scheme . |
| 26 | Millwall boss Mick McCarthy made an approach for the striker three weeks ago , but was given the cold shoulder . |
| 27 | ‘ Dear Mr Ken Ward , I made an order for the survival bag as you kindly indicated . |
| 28 | On 9 October 1990 Judge Diamond made an order for the trial of the preliminary issue : |
| 29 | The judge made an order for the costs to be paid , though the total amount can not yet be estimated . |
| 30 | The plaintiffs made an application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendant from disclosing to the regulatory body or to the revenue its confidential information or documents . |