Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 2 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 3 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 4 | Such a moment came for the Small-holder , one of our regular openers . |
| 5 | So also where a sublease provided for the rent to be a proportion of the rent " payable " by the landlord " in the manner fixed " under the headlease , it was held that the rent review clause in the sublease was capable of operation despite the surrender of the headlease ( R & A Millett ( Shops ) Ltd v Leon Allan International Fashions Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 138 ) . |
| 6 | Relations were sometimes strained and occasionally explosive , and a picture emerged for the evaluators of a fair degree of conflict between the committee and its chairman . |
| 7 | A trout jumped for a sparkling irridescent fly . |
| 8 | It would fully accord with the general principles of contract and treaty law if a mechanism existed for the parties to union to vary the terms of union from time to time by agreement . |
| 9 | Just then a bell rang for the servants ' dinner . |
| 10 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 11 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : How a tenderfoot fell for a cowboy On a blazing saddle , Angela Humphery treks 100 miles through the Sierra Nevada |
| 12 | A KESTREL swooped for a refreshing stop at a waterfall in a little garden paradise high above a busy South London road . |
| 13 | And a man looked for the . |
| 14 | ‘ Subliminal ’ advertising , which was most publicly ‘ exposed ’ in Vance Packard 's The Hidden Persuaders , is advertising that is supposed to work below the threshold of consciousness : a message flashed for a fraction of a second on a cinema screen was , it was alleged , able to increase sales of popcorn very significantly , even though no one in the audience could have taken it in — or , indeed , remembered it . |
| 15 | At the same time a taste arose for the refined lifestyle of the cultured Greek . |
| 16 | Turner also supplied establishments out of town , advertising ‘ a Conveyance kept for the purpose of sending Coffins , Goods , &c. to any part of Town or Country , with Dispatch ’ . |
| 17 | Horrified holiday-makers saw the five-foot reptile clamp its jaws round her leg after she and a pal went for a dip in a national park pool . |
| 18 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |