Example sentences of "and for [art] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 2 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 3 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 4 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ By this time , I 'd become the President of MainMan and for a time was Ton 's right hand man running errands for him . |
| 5 | This aircraft was fitted with only two upper wing fuel tanks , and for a time was used on test flights with four-bladed propellers which , instead of the usual right angles , had angles of 80° and 100° . |
| 6 | He received his BD by 1611 , his DD by 1613 , was ordained priest ( 1610 ) , and for a time was tutor to Lord Wharton 's son . |
| 7 | She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife . |
| 8 | He was angered , and for a moment was tempted to reply that Louise herself had managed to fit in to French society , despite her origins and her antecedents , but he curbed himself . |
| 9 | Oh , heck , Fabia thought , and for a moment was flummoxed to know what to do next . |
| 10 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 11 | So that 's why IBM Corp was ready to get rid of MAPICS , one of its very few ostensibly successful software applications : Marcam Corp signalled in a conference call on Thursday night that analysts for now should not expect the product line from IBM to add to Marcam 's earnings in fiscal 1994 ; it indicated that both this year and for the time being next year their guidance is no positive impact on earnings from the MAPICS acquisition , ’ Hambrecht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 12 | This , however , lay still in the future , and for the time being the seventeen industrialised towns and villages ( out of thirty-two ) in Babergh hundred contained almost three-quarters of its population and 87 per cent of its wealth . |
| 13 | And that , for most people and for the time being , said everything . |
| 14 | It was no wonder that the Vietnamese , he said , were willing to turn to anyone who offered them a helping hand ; and for the time being , for him and perhaps for most Vietnamese , it was China , and the kuomintang , not surprisingly , which exerted the greatest influence on the development of Vietnamese nationalism : and especially a Kuomintang which still included communists as well as nationalists . |
| 15 | Johnson 's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power , and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team . |
| 16 | ( 1 ) Premises shall be disqualified for receiving a licence if they are situated on land acquired or appropriated by a special road authority , and for the time being used , for the provision of facilities to be used in connection with the use of a special road provided for the use of traffic of class 1 ( with or without other classes ) . |
| 17 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 18 | There are products and there is cash-flow , and for the time being survival can continue . |
| 19 | But planners are paid to be pessimistic , and for the time being they felt it prudent to assume that American assistance in a crisis — imperative though it would be — was likely to be forthcoming only after an unpredictable interval . |
| 20 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 21 | British rowing officials are not known for making sweeping changes and for the time being they say Henley will stay as it is … |
| 22 | Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties . |
| 23 | He has , he says , been ‘ overwhelmed ’ by the kindness and support he has received , and for the moment is relishing not working a 14-hour day and seeing more of his wife and four children . |