Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also a base for the campaigns first in Gallipoli and later in Palestine . |
| 2 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 3 | Doug Mills , 49 , landlord of The Golden Ball — used as a base for the police operation — said : ‘ Customers told me he had done several tours of Northern Ireland during his service . |
| 4 | making a provision for the managers of tomorrow ; and |
| 5 | A provision for the partners to draw in advance of final ascertainment of their profit sharethe limits of which might conveniently be defined by reference to some proportion of the previous year 's profits ( Clause 10.03 ) making sufficient allowance for the possibility that that year 's profit levels may not be repeated let alone exceeded . |
| 6 | A provision for the partners to bring in to the firm 's account their fees and other remuneration derived from offices and appointments held by them ( see below ) ( Clause 10.06 ) . |
| 7 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 8 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
| 9 | The costs of even preparing a case for the Commissioners , let alone taking it , would more than nullify any tax relief gained . |
| 10 | This was n't yet a case for the police , least of all for him . |
| 11 | The will contained a direction for the trustees , out of the net income of the proportionate share of the estate held in trust for any child , to make such provision from time to time as they in their uncontrolled discretion might think necessary or advisable for the suitable maintenance and education of such a child . |
| 12 | These tears are both a veil for the eyes and a screen for the transcendent mind , which isolates man from his environment and shows him a land of ecstasy and delight . |
| 13 | The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter . |
| 14 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 15 | In the pause that followed , she noticed that someone had hung peanuts on a thread for the birds ; the empty shells looked like shrivelled skulls hung to frighten evil spirits . |
| 16 | Since fleeing to Mexico from Guatemala in 1980 following the murder of her parents and brother by the then military regime , she had maintained a struggle for the rights of American indigenous peoples . |
| 17 | There was a struggle for the polytechnics to define , in private and in public , what the characteristics of the polytechnics were and should remain . |
| 18 | Roll out a small ball of fondant or marzipan trimmings and place it centrally on top of the roof drum to act as a support for the triangles . |
| 19 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 20 | ‘ That was a trick for the lawyers , ’ he said . |
| 21 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 22 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 23 | Abe 's death was also a blow for the ambitions of other Recruit-tainted veteran LDP leaders , including former Prime Ministers Takeshita and Yasuhiro Nakasone ( the latter having recently rejoined the LDP after serving a two-year period of atonement outside the party ) . |
| 24 | It had to contain a sanctuary for the clergy , where Mass would be said , a lay part for the congregation ( the nave ) , a forecourt ( atrium ) where postulants and unbelievers could assemble and , in later instances , a martyrium to shelter the relics of graves of the martyr to whom the church was dedicated ( XVI ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Now the chief priest is going to say a prayer for the boats on the beach , ’ he explained , as they went with other spectators to join in behind the end of the procession and follow it across the square and on to the sand . |
| 26 | The merger of Mills and Boon and the Harlequin imprint acts as a paradigm for the sequences of company mergers and takeovers that took place in the sixties and seventies in publishing in Britain and America , a period in which the ownership structures of publishing underwent a profound shift away from specialist producers and distributors of books , towards groups of publishing houses owned largely by corporate organizations whose primary interests were not in publishing . |
| 27 | It will ban tobacco advertising and invent a Ministry for the Arts and Media , and a Ministry for Women . |
| 28 | Geoff is erm oh he 's raising money for a playing , a field for the children |
| 29 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 30 | In Thomas Young v. Hobson ( 1949 C.A. ) the seller made a contract for the goods to be carried at ‘ owner 's risk . ’ |