Example sentences of "a [noun] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one or two on the island here who got a bit for the that er damage with the storm . |
| 2 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 3 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 4 | Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire . |
| 5 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 6 | The same gallery had a pastel study of a hand by Degas for the painting ‘ Mademoiselle Fiocre ’ while Galerie Heim next door had a foot for the same work . |
| 7 | He wrote a Prologue and ‘ The Song of the Wreck ’ for Wilkie Collins 's The Lighthouse , 1855 , and a Prologue for the same author 's The Frozen Deep , 1856 . |
| 8 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 9 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 10 | And er Ivy got married and she stopped the teaching and died just that same year and then there was the a change for the both teachers . |
| 11 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 12 | It 's a full-time job ; in fact I 've just spent my leave there simply to give them a break for a few days . ’ |
| 13 | In an age in which almost every worthwhile appointment likely to attract a gentleman could be obtained only through political interest , true independence was a luxury for a few wealthy bachelors without close kin , and politicians were expected to satisfy their constituents ' needs . |
| 14 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 15 | Here 's a better attempt at a caption for the same picture . |
| 16 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 17 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 18 | The message from gays and lesbians living in rural Ireland was one of a sense of isolation which might aptly be tackled through the medium of film , which has the potential to act as a focus for the many people geographically isolated and thus tongue-tied by virtue of their isolation . |
| 19 | Sometimes a tramp would knock on the back door , begging for food or offering to do a job for a few coppers . |
| 20 | This show will be a revelation for the many Americans who are too young to have seen the major survey mounted by Wildenstein in New York in 1949 . |
| 21 | John Taylor , the Unionist MP for South Tyrone , also made representations and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers , a body led by Ian Paisley , announced a meeting for the same time and place as the civil rights rally . |
| 22 | According to the organisers , it hopes to ‘ provide a platform for the many hardworking and determined Dublin bands who find the process of demo recording both costly and ineffective as regards promotions and A&R contact ’ . |
| 23 | The body needs to be brushed once a day for a few minutes before your morning bath or shower ( twice if you have cellulite ) . |
| 24 | I have owned a GameBoy for a few months now , and still use it . |
| 25 | AZT does give you a chance for a few more years . |
| 26 | Afterwards I have a rest for a few days or go swimming ’ |
| 27 | He first embarked on an Open University degree in the technology faculty some ten years ago , but gave it a rest for a few years before starting in earnest in 1986 , in his second year at Wedgwood . |
| 28 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 29 | But this means that the soil for seed-sowing can be done simply by covering a patch for a few days with a sheet of polythene anchored by bricks or stones — in the absence , of course , of cloches . |
| 30 | As I understand it , the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy — she gets half his dough . |