Example sentences of "for [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 2 | Little is known of his childhood , though it is said he developed a talent for drawing at an early age . |
| 3 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 4 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 5 | However , both sides cautioned against over-optimistic hopes that treaties on all three issues could be ready for signing at the planned " superpower " summit in Washington in June . |
| 6 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 7 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 8 | That is one reason for looking at a certain objection , that our conception of such connection is not fundamental to , or pervasive in , a certain body of knowledge and speculation , one which must have some pride of place in any informed view of reality . |
| 9 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 10 | We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people . |
| 11 | have n't got the mechanism for looking at the BES er scale in in the timescale we were looking at . |
| 12 | ‘ Having twins as characters was a device for looking at the very silly phrase ‘ having it all ’ : it was a way of signalling this division within us . |
| 13 | The long-lived alien 's point of view is the right one for looking at the plausibility of a theory like Cairns-Smith 's or the primeval-soup theory . |
| 14 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 15 | I have another eyepiece on the end which is suitable for looking at the stars and planets . |
| 16 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 17 | A visit to a country house for instance will probably include reference to some of the social groups and classes of the period under study ( upstairs/downstairs , the estate workers , the craft or factory workers who produced many of the goods seen in the house ) ; the role of the gentry as leaders and rulers of their society can be covered ; there will be ample scope for looking at the economic and technological aspects of life in the period , especially if the house is related to its setting and the surrounding estate and countryside that supported it ; finally there will be objects or rooms in the house which relate to cultural or religious life in the period . |
| 18 | " There were no people studying these animals , no facilities for looking at the carcasses , for establishing the cause of death . |
| 19 | However , where a term of a contract is unclear , is capable of having more than one meaning , or is specific to a particular trade or market , there is considerable scope for looking at the factual background or " matrix " known to the parties , in order to clarify how it should be applied . |
| 20 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 21 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 22 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 23 | Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today . |
| 24 | Joolz was cautioned by the police for swearing at a heckler who swore at her . |
| 25 | He was banished from the arena last month when his club , Guildford , lost at home to Leicester , for swearing at a referee . |
| 26 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 27 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 28 | MIKE Small was branded ‘ stupid ’ by furious boss Billy Bonds after being sent off for swearing at a linesman at Oakwell yesterday . |
| 29 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 30 | He was fined £700 for swearing at a Cambridge University student , Marcus Wight , in April , and disciplined again in mid-August after clashing with a spectator at a Sunday League fixture . |