Example sentences of "for we [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
| 2 | Take advice from experienced traveller Simon Hooton — who 's tested for us a wide range of outdoor clothing currently available — and build up ( or take off ) the layers to cope with everything that 's thrown at you . |
| 3 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 4 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 5 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 6 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |
| 7 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 8 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |
| 9 | ‘ It was difficult 'cos we 'd walk into our dressing room and there would be 30 cans waiting for us every single night , ’ confesses Ashley . |
| 10 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 11 | Having a sentimental attachment for them , I can not resist mentioning the Cotswold Hills of western England where the formation still quaintly known by William Smith 's original name of the " Inferior Oolite " , reaches what is for us the tremendous thickness of about 100 feet . |
| 12 | For us the key piece of this period is the François vase ( detail , fig. 47 ) , found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi ; Athens is now capturing the western market from Corinth . |
| 13 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 14 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 15 | The Bible is for us the primary source of authority but not the only source . |
| 16 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 17 | For us the important point is that the timescale on which continents have drifted about is the same slow timescale on which animal lineages have evolved , and we can not ignore continental drift if we are to understand the patterns of animal evolution on those continents . |