Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , it may be admitted that as a consequence of challenges to humanism , the overt force of the national concept within English studies has been diminished ( but far from extinguished ) , and the space for a new and valuable concern with methodology has been opened up . |
| 2 | Maronite collaboration with the French — and the support for a Maronite state which later came from Israel — contaminated the community in the eyes of its opponents . |
| 3 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in the case of contract hire of motor vehicles , the requirement of durability for the whole contract period is often expressly incorporated in the contract where , of course , the hirer pays extra in terms of rentals for facilities such as servicing and the provision for a replacement vehicle . |
| 5 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 6 | Beethoven ( Sonata Op12 No3 ) , Schumann ( Romances Op94 , Sonata Op105 No1 ) , Stravinsky ( Suite Italienne ) 4pm Barbican £5-£12.50 Bach Vespers Cantata 38 ( Aus tiefer Not ) , plus Vivaldi ( Double Violin Concerto ) in context of Lutheran service 7pm St Anne 's , Gresham St , The City NORWICH FESTIVAL Dorothy Tutin joins the Endymion Ensemble for Saint- Saens 's Carnival of the Animals and Poulenc 's Babar the Elephant , plus Ibert , Milhaud 3pm St Andrew 's Hall £2-£8. l TUESDAY Verdi Requiem ECO and Tallis Chamber Choir with soloists Jo Ann Pickens , Sarah Walker , Jeffrey Talbot , Gwynne Howell 7.30pm Royal Naval College Chapel , King William Walk , Greenwich SE10 £5.50-£9 ( 317 8687 ) Olli Mustonen The brilliant young Finnish pianist-composer joins fellow Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia for a Grand Gala in aid of the Council for the Protection of Rural England : Ravel 's breezy G major Piano Concerto is framed by aptly Green pieces by Vaughan Williams ( Greensleeves Fantasia ) and Stravinsky ( Le Sacre du Printemps ) 7.30pm RFH £18 incl donation ; £35-£125 incl reception and private view of Legacy exhibition ( 12 photographers ' views of Britain 's countryside ) NORWICH FESTIVAL The Field of Cloth of Gold : A musical celebration of the 1520 meeting between Henry VIII and Francois I of France , played on period instruments by Musica Antiqua of London 7.30pm Cathedral £2.50-£7.50 ( 0603-618499 ) LES PARISIENNES Pianist Diana Ambache and her Ambache Chamber Orchestra offer musical portraits of four femmes de Paris — two of them composers , two of them inspirations for the compositions of others . |
| 7 | However each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages , and the suitability for a particular situation will depend on many factors . |
| 8 | The local authority had provided half the capital for the dual purpose church and the salary for a youth leader , so the church had obligations to maintain the club open despite continuous vandalism and verbal abuse directed at the elderly people , who became understandably reluctant to attend church . |
| 9 | And , with its disintegration , both were driven to an increasing identification with German nationalism and the proposal for a merger of Austria and Germany . |
| 10 | We sit round on bins , rugs and the floor for a chat . |
| 11 | By a single vote , the Commons withheld confidence from the government , Lord Melbourne sought and obtained a dissolution of Parliament , and the necessity for a Cabinet to secure the confidence and support of Parliament and thus be responsible to it was established . |
| 12 | Parental responsibility , partnership , non-intervention , attention to the wishes of the child and the necessity for a full assessment may mitigate the perceived threat of children being separated from their families because of their lifestyle . |
| 13 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 14 | There seems to be little difference between the lack of a requirement of assault and the necessity for a direct application of force . |
| 15 | Possible remedies for the lack of closeness to shareholders include the appointment of an intermediary group such as a supervisory board , more flexible audit reporting and the opportunity for a two-way dialogue between auditors and shareholders at the agm or in private . |
| 16 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
| 17 | The Durdin-Robertsons have long since abandoned the horse , the gun and the salmon-rod for a pastime at once arcane and modishly contemporary : the worship of Isis , the Eternal Female , fertility goddess of Ancient Egypt . |
| 18 | But observers were sceptical about the prospects of an end to rebel military activity in El Salvador and the call for a larger United Nations role in verifying compliance with the accord and aiding in the disarming of rebel forces . |
| 19 | the Moonies and the Campaign for a Free Britain , offered support to the PRG 's campaign . |
| 20 | Hence , by 1905 the Poor Law faced criticism from all sides and the case for a review was strong . |
| 21 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 22 | Before considering how ( and how far ) these three features are actually manifested in the different positivist theories , there are two other contingent and interdependent features that Jeffery ( and Matza following him ) pick on as of central significance to the positivist programme : the shift of focus from crime to the criminal , and the quest for a universal , objective category of ‘ criminal ’ behaviour . |
| 23 | However , this substance has been found in so many different tissues of such a wide variety of animals , that there is now some doubt about its role and the quest for a natural magnetic detector is continuing . |
| 24 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 25 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 26 | Altering weather conditions can accelerate or slow down dredging programmes , and the engineer for a direct works section must also keep his construction plant and men employed in order to make them viable . |
| 27 | He was also much involved in the passage of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act in 1889 and the movement for a national university of Wales . |
| 28 | Negotiations were begun between the Civic Democratic Party and the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia as the two largest parties . |
| 29 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 30 | You never watched Lady And The Tramp for a long time have you ? |