Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 2 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 3 | Nigel bought a pulley , and the offending object was banished — hoisted skywards , where it hung immobile except when lowered , which became mainly for the amusement of visiting children who nevertheless were informed that any bad behaviour would be punished by hauling them up twenty-five feet into space and leaving them . |
| 4 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 5 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 6 | Most running lines used by Railfreight are shared with at least one other sector , though there is a not insignificant mileage which exists purely for the benefit of freight . |
| 7 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 8 | as if in recognition of the inherent limitations of the appeals system in this respect , the Magistrates ' Association issued a set of national guide-lines , in 1999 , which set out for the first time a scale of recommended penalties covering the 25 commonest offence types likely to come before the magistrates , together with guidance on the approach to be adopted for different degrees of seriousness . |
| 9 | Unions were viewed as monopolistic combinations of labour which catered mainly for the interests of those of their members who were in employment at the expense of the unemployed . |
| 10 | He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) . |
| 11 | The MCofS 's aims in this field are to provide facilities which cater fully for the climbing population 's needs in the greater conurbations . |
| 12 | The school was an amiable establishment in Somerset which existed largely for the daughters of service and diplomatic families , whose fees were subsidised by the services to ensure that the scions of the officer class need not be tainted by cheek-by-jowl association with the children of other ranks . |
| 13 | According to Willie van Peer 's introductory statement , the book is intended to promote a reconciliation between literary and linguistic approaches to the study of literature , and , more specifically , to provide a much-needed contribution in three fundamental directions : first , the development of a theory of textuality which accounts both for the way in which all texts function in society and for the differences between literary and non-literary texts ; secondly , the construction of a model of literary communication that gives an adequate account of the complexities involved in the production and reception of literary texts ; and thirdly , the development of more explicit and comprehensive accounts of the ways in which formal and contextual factors interact in the process of deriving interpretations from texts . |
| 14 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 15 | The additional list of tempos by Czerny for Mozart quartets and quintets in table 1 , which appears here for the first time , also shows a similarly wide range of minuet tempos , from slow to fast ( for quartets and quintets , dotted minim = 44–84 ; together with the list of tempos by Czerny and Hummel for the Mozart symphonies , dotted minim = 42–88 see table 2 of my 1988 Early music article ) . |
| 16 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 17 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 18 | The company 's Paris division is reputedly achieving similar levels of success , which bodes well for the new outlets due to open in Frankfurt and Madrid by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Mrs Aughton wants the County Council to send Steven and Jason to the fifteen thousand pound a year private West Country Boarding School in Exeter which caters exclusively for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 20 | Despite the reservations about the scheme of the BMA , which spoke mainly for the consultant élite of the profession , less prosperous GPS flocked to join the ‘ panels ’ . |
| 21 | He and Mackay put on 97 in 72 minutes , extending Australia 's total to 348 , which proved enough for a seven wicket victory after West Indies failed to avoid the follow-on . |
| 22 | Moreover the Legal Aid Board , being in a position , as is rightly conceded , to waive observance of procedural formalities which exist solely for the board 's protection can do so by raising no objection to the proposed order and thereby obviate the necessity for any further inquiry before the suspended order takes effect . |
| 23 | This was held in place by a groove in the bottom of the door jamb which projected slightly for the purpose . |
| 24 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |
| 25 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 26 | a body with branches in various parts of Britain which agitated strongly for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 . |
| 27 | Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement which works impartially for the release of prisoners of conscience : men , women and children detained anywhere for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , religion or language , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence . |
| 28 | Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement which works impartially for the release of prisoners of conscience : men , women and children detained anywhere for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , religion or language , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence . |
| 29 | There is thus now an excess of supply over demand which augurs badly for the UK as its North Sea oil is relatively expensive to produce and this has put certain marginal oil fields out of production . |
| 30 | Pringle bowled a particularly good opening spell of five overs for six runs , which augurs well for the Test match as he had struggled to find his rhythm previously . |