Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not consider that a ground for complaint . |
| 2 | ‘ I could not possibly consider such a commission for less than five hundred roubles . ’ |
| 3 | I 've got to go out and buy all the cloth for the new costumes in The Tempest . |
| 4 | Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers . |
| 5 | You can not want such a person for a wife , and I certainly do not want a husband who thinks that of me — even before marriage . ’ |
| 6 | She looked up at him and said sulkily : ‘ Wotcha wan na make such a mess for ? ’ |
| 7 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 8 | It was the first time Harry had ever seen him do such a thing for himself , but then he had heard that staff were far less easy to come by since the war . |
| 9 | What sort of twisted thoughts went through my father 's brain at the time to make him choose such a name for the child I can not start to imagine , but that was the name Angus chose for his new son . |
| 10 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 11 | No country should carry all the blame for the round 's paralysis . |
| 12 | Most installation programs will do all the work for you . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's seen me like this every morning for over a week now , ’ he told her , giving her a cheeky grin , ‘ and still she loves me . ’ |
| 14 | We could not claim all the credit for this as our administration was coming to grips with the situation ashore . |
| 15 | His booking could well make all the difference for Romola Nijinsky in the Orchard Portman Selling Handicap Hurdle ( 2.50 ) at Taunton . |
| 16 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 17 | It was a unique opportunity to now perform such a ceremony for ‘ real ’ ! |
| 18 | The Ixmarites would not tolerate such a man for long , I am sure . ’ |
| 19 | It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House . |
| 20 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 21 | The profiles shown in Figure 3.3 do indicate such a curve for men and for women in the early stages of their working careers . |
| 22 | It is curious that he should select such a subject for his essay , drawn from a newspaper announcement of a man 's death . |
| 23 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |
| 24 | They go on to stress that the low level of resourcing can not take all the blame for this state of affairs , since the attitudes and policies of the schools themselves are crucially important . |
| 25 | Finally , the therapist can not take all the credit for his or her successes ; the healer is merely a catalyst in the process . |
| 26 | ‘ He did the design for the Matterhorn , though he modestly lets Harry Fischer take all the credit for it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You may take all the credit for that , Caroline . ’ |
| 28 | Now they look to have a side which could go all the way for the first time . |
| 29 | The submission of the father had been to the effect that the court should leave open the opportunity for him to apply for custody of the children in the divorce proceedings then pending . |
| 30 | ‘ The new legislation will leave open the potential for further competition , ’ he said . |