Example sentences of "a [adj] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain . |
| 2 | This pretty island is only an hour away by ferry so you will have plenty of time to get a real feel for the island and begin to enjoy its special magic before it is time to leave . |
| 3 | The singing lines , the sense of momentum , of progression towards and relaxation from climaxes is gauged with a natural feel for the musical contours and the poetic expressiveness of both sonatas . |
| 4 | The race is now on to fund what would be a major buy for the museum . |
| 5 | If he had his fishing tackle ready , his polo ponies saddled and a 5 note for the church collection he was perfectly content . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not aware of creating a visual identify for the house scene , because we 're right in there . |
| 7 | By the time the area basic training course starts , trainees should have a good feel for the work of their bureau , and CAB policy and practice . |
| 8 | They should have a good feel for the sector 's long-term confidence . |
| 9 | This , combined with the smallish cutting length , make it a good buy for the owners of small to medium gardens , who want the convenience and added safety of a cordless trimmer . |
| 10 | It is a vital read for the fan , but in it the group become parodies of themselves . |
| 11 | And , as I came to discover later , a genuine feel for a story . |
| 12 | A new employ for the aircraft was that of a " minifreighter " . |
| 13 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 14 | Shirley Hughes 's The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook ( TS403 — one cassette ; 33 minutes ) read by Thora Hird is a lovely listen for the very young and more than tolerable for their elders . |
| 15 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 16 | Only in the political disarray which followed the deaths of Offa and Ecgfrith is there evidence of an eagerness to abandon Lichfield , when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , proposed in letters to Pope Leo in 797 and again in 798 the creation of an archiepiscopal see for a single southern province for Aethelheard at London to replace both Canterbury and Lichfield . |
| 17 | It does not sound like an essential buy for every reader of the Evening Standard , which last Thursday devoted a full page to the facsimile . |
| 18 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 19 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |