Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect it is worth asking whether it is a mere coincidence that neo-colonialism produces for the bureaucracy a reversion to pre-bureaucratic ( e.g. medieval ) forms of compensation for service to the state . |
| 2 | Nothing seems to happen here , remote from the rest of the world , yet one of the houses supplies weather reports to the BBC and achieves for the community a frequent mention . |
| 3 | An engagement of sympathy on the side of the character who seems superficially to be the target figure constructs for the reader an unusual angle of vision on the events and characters of this fabliau . |
| 4 | And he prepares for the axe every time boss Walter Smith names a European Cup squad . |
| 5 | In all the Odes there is scarcely a strophe , perhaps hardly a line , that does not transmute word order into word mosaic , a deliberate fragmentation that creates for the reader the pleasurable tension of wondering how the sense will be resolved , accompanied by the stimulus of casual associations , as one word runs against another . |
| 6 | In questioning both narrative and pictorial realism and creating an effect of distancing , he poses for the spectator the issue of actively transforming reality ( Heath 1981 , p. 63 ) . |
| 7 | Ninety may be a good age but who knows for the horse the IRA could n't kill this could only be the start of the search for pastures new . |