Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 2 | Henderson made his reputation as a spokesman for the working classes of Belfast against the economic policies of the Unionist governments of the 1930s . |
| 3 | As a spokesman for the UK surfing community , Chris Hines is increasingly well-informed , so much so that he is now a worthy opposition in the corridors of power . |
| 4 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 5 | He was among the politically active officers of 1647–9 , serving on the small standing committee to which Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) handed over control of issuing all commissions , and acting as a spokesman for the high command in their successive dealings with the Parliament , the king , and the radicals in the army itself ( the Agitators and their Leveller allies ) . |
| 6 | His continued appearance on the public platform and his considerable oratory skills gave Williams the opportunity to enhance his growing reputation as a spokesman for the ‘ common man ’ . |
| 7 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 8 | Mr Kewley is acting as a spokesman for the family . |
| 9 | It all came as a shock for the 63-year-old Governor . |
| 10 | It is possible to take a stretch of language which someone has used in communication and treat it as a sentence for a translation exercise , or an object for grammatical analysis . |
| 11 | Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care . |
| 13 | It has another important use as a support for the sail , either in the decorative sense to form shapes in profile , or more commonly to give depth to the sail for aerodynamic reasons . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time . |
| 16 | Belle 's sister Lil went with her as a companion for the long journey . |
| 17 | Fortnum had this lion made as a companion for the bronze bull also now in the Ashmolean , basing this odd-sounding pairing on the celebrated marble bull and lion in the Vatican . |
| 18 | For reasons of its very comprehensiveness the book will be of use as a companion for the collector , art historian , student and librarian . |
| 19 | After Cambridge he had worked at Harwell Atomic Research Station , begun working as a photographer for the Observer , and been active in CND and Centre 42 . |
| 20 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 21 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |
| 22 | Africa is just serving as a mirror for the West 's new ideologies . |
| 23 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 24 | Other records describe the Leviathan as an enormous salt-water crocodile ; the word was used to describe DRAGONS also , and was used as a title for the later Kings of Egypt . |
| 25 | The choice of La Section d'Or as a title for the exhibition of the group of painters who appeared at the Galerie de la Boétie seems to indicate some dissatisfaction with the term Cubism as applied to their work , and was probably intended to imply translation by Peladan in 1910. that the paintings shown had a more profound and rational basis . |
| 26 | ‘ Introduction ’ as a title for an album by Mr Fingers is a joke : he 's been hardcore , soul-House , deep acid , acid ; half of The It , a third of Fingers Inc , all of Gherkin Jerks and Mr Fingers . |
| 27 | The single , which was originally issued in 1981 and deleted after a run of 2,000 , served as a blueprint for the band 's ‘ Uncertain Smile ’ , recorded after they had signed to Epic . |
| 28 | The eventual product of their lengthy discussions was the strongly Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship , which was accepted by parliament in early 1645 as a blueprint for the new ecclesiastical establishment . |
| 29 | First , it can act as a blueprint for the manufacture of amino acids ; and second , it has the capacity to replicate itself . |
| 30 | For Hölderlin , the assimilation of classical Greece is conceived of as a blueprint for the German nation . |