Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 3 | Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ . |
| 4 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 5 | The time taken by the cyclist for the six and a half mile journey from Currie to the City Chambers was thirty minutes , making an average speed of 13 mph . |
| 6 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 7 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 8 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 9 | It can be no bigger than A4 , and it must n't project more than 3 inches , but at the moment they are pouring into Rosie Headers house , and we 've had stuff from Japan and America already , and also from artists in the community , but anybody can enter for Mail Art , so if anybody 's interested in a Mail Art sheet , I can get one for you , but those exhibitions are going up in Freud 's , which is our sort of Festival Centre for the two and a half weeks during the Festival . |
| 10 | There has , for example , been a marked reduction in direct council provision of homes for the elderly and a concomitant increase in privately run homes . |
| 11 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 12 | There are also three levels of menu-driven diagnostics , including one for the non-technical and a very fancy oscilloscope-style graphical display for the techies . |
| 13 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 14 | Harvey produced a key for the third and a red light came on over each lock . |
| 15 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |
| 16 | Food imported for a million and a half people . |
| 17 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |
| 18 | It provided for a Supreme and a Constitutional Court , a High Court of Justice , an Economic and Social Council and a National Assembly elected under a multiparty system . |
| 19 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 20 | In 1980 the Academic , College and Research Libraries ( ACRL ) Board of Directors in the USA approved funding for a two and a half year project to provide information concerning academic librarianship to organizations and individuals involved with higher education through the development of channels of communication with professional and higher education associations . |
| 21 | Romany King is five pounds better off than last year for a two and a half length beating and is now ridden by Adrian Maguire , one of the most talented young jockeys on the circuit . |
| 22 | At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses . |
| 23 | His gratitude to the Conservative government in reducing his tax burden was repaid in 1987 , when he composed the theme music for a two and a half-minute video film for Mrs Thatcher 's election campaign . |
| 24 | It 's heading for a two and a half million pound overspend while having to deal with more than nine thousand repairs . |
| 25 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 26 | This includes a minimum wage for a five and a half day week , and daily and hourly rates for part-time workers , maternity rights , annual leave and sick leave , payslips and proper contracts of employment . |
| 27 | Costs for a five and a half-day week are therefore £37,125 or £1,930,500 per year . |
| 28 | A second airport terminal was opened in 1990 and there are plans to reclaim more land for a third and a fourth . |
| 29 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 30 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |