Example sentences of "for [art] [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not a man to belie the magnificent world for the credit of his craft . |
| 2 | My mother must have made quite big money in tips , for the records of her savings , no longer a secret , show quite fabulous sums being stored away in the early sixties . |
| 3 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 4 | A kind word here and a Christmas turkey there is a small price to pay for the loyalty of one 's employees . |
| 5 | This time he imitates a man hanging from a tree , which Barat and Haimet take for the ghost of their hanged father , drop their booty and flee . |
| 6 | For the implication of his theory of power is that if we break out of the regime of sexuality then power will play through a new series of discourses . |
| 7 | A non-confrontational policy designed to persuade drug cartel leaders to surrender in exchange for the banning of their extradition to stand trial in the USA had some success in Colombia [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37957-58 ; 38345 ] . |
| 8 | Except for the timing of it all . ’ |
| 9 | After being criticised by manager Mr Smith for the timing of his announcement , 24 hours before the Villa Park match , Beresford said : ‘ I do n't want to leave Pompey — in fact it 's quite the reverse . |
| 10 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 11 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 12 | He had discovered that City opinion , for the interpretation of which he relied upon McKenna and which he had previously been informed was strongly against acceptance , had swung overwhelmingly in favour . |
| 13 | THE MAKING of Nice Work , David Lodge 's adapation for the BBC of his 1988 novel which divides between academia and industry , required extensive filming in both a foundry and a lecture hall . |
| 14 | The abolition of the doctrine of common employment has rendered this area of comparatively little importance , as in most cases the employer will be vicariously liable for the torts of his employees . |
| 15 | The want felt for such an organization for the promotion of their intellectual , social , moral , temporal and spiritual welfare is very great ; there is a wide field of usefulness for the proposed union . |
| 16 | These were primarily treaties between the Great Powers for the promotion of what they perceived as the benefit of the regional or international community . |
| 17 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 18 | The fourth department that purchases statistics does so for the preparation of its quantitative economic outlooks ; it uses sufficient statistics to justify use of an online facility as well as of hard copy . |
| 19 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 20 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 21 | In addition , rates have been increased for the minority of our policyholders who live in the larger cities because of the soaring number of thefts there . |
| 22 | Members are pressing for freer European access for the products of their petrochemical industries . |
| 23 | Members are pressing for freer European access for the products of their petrochemical industries . |
| 24 | Best-selling novelist ( Sin City , Penguin , £3.99 ) , poet , short story writer ( her story Hot Ice Cream first appeared in August SHE ) , Wendy is famous for the intensity of her prose and her frankness about sex and religion . |
| 25 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 26 | Both populations also competed for the prestige of their culture . |
| 27 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 28 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 29 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 30 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |