Example sentences of "an [adj] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 2 | Only in the political disarray which followed the deaths of Offa and Ecgfrith is there evidence of an eagerness to abandon Lichfield , when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , proposed in letters to Pope Leo in 797 and again in 798 the creation of an archiepiscopal see for a single southern province for Aethelheard at London to replace both Canterbury and Lichfield . |
| 3 | It does not sound like an essential buy for every reader of the Evening Standard , which last Thursday devoted a full page to the facsimile . |
| 4 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 5 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |