Example sentences of "find [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies . |
| 2 | Every king from James I to James V ( though not Mary ) built ; as with the great guns and the great ships , so they managed to find money for the great buildings . |
| 3 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 4 | In spite of not being able to find support for an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ in what Wittgenstein says , and not accepting what would be Mill 's reason for an affirmative answer , I think an affirmative answer is the right answer . |
| 5 | To do both these we have to find support for the idea . |
| 6 | At the coronation , which took place in Moscow at the end of August 1856 , Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , quizzed gentry representatives from many parts of the empire on the question of emancipation and found sympathy for the idea only among the north-westerners whose feelings on the matter had already been communicated to the tsar . |
| 7 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 8 | Even with the new heating , warmth was hard to get : two years later the chapter struggled to find firewood for the canons since other fuel could not be got ; and a defective boiler in the cathedral was made in Germany and could not be mended . |
| 9 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 10 | A job centre is praying for help from a higher power … after being asked to find work for a man of the cloth ! |
| 11 | The pressure to find work for the 2260 staff at ISPRA is intense because of a commitment by research ministers to keep on all of ISPRA 's nuclear scientists — even though their biggest project , Super-SARA , has been abandoned . |
| 12 | In 1953 , the British National Conference on Social Work warned of the problems of abrupt retirement , while throughout the decade old people 's welfare committees acted to find work for the elderly . |
| 13 | The next day we were put in a different room and found brackets for the chains already attached to the wall . |
| 14 | Paratroopers ( from the left ) Alex Poole , Eric Sekwalor , John Sowerby and Sean Ollsson came third in the four-man push competition organised by the British Bobsleigh Association to find crews for the new season . |
| 15 | The meal mills and the wool mill found work for a number of millwrights . |
| 16 | He struggled to find sponsorship for the Formula Three and Formula Ford circuits . |
| 17 | In the oriental field , Bluett 's failed to find buyers for a group of Chinese Warring States bronze vessels of extraordinary scholarly interest , while Colnaghi Oriental found spectacularly decorative seventeenth-century bronzes easy to move . |
| 18 | It was not always easy for a private householder to find buyers for a large number of packets of soap ! |
| 19 | The Games , already destined to be the largest ever , now have to find room for the extra 3,306 competitors and officials registered by the end of last month , bringing the total to 18,306 . |
| 20 | Those whose desks will be rearranged to find room for the new machines will find it harder to exert some control . |
| 21 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 22 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 23 | We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town . |
| 24 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 25 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 26 | The guides , unable to find livery for the horses , found fresh hay for the beds and the quarrellers , still sullen with each other , retired . |
| 27 | They argue , sensibly , that for this reason it would be ridiculous to find alternatives for the syllable ‘ man ’ in these words . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that the Science and Engineering Research Council 's review committee found evidence for a low level of activity when they chose to compare such a small part of physics with the whole of chemistry or biology . |
| 29 | This study found evidence for the S&P500 and the NYSE Composite index futures that volume is ‘ caused ’ by volatility , that arbitrage opportunities are ‘ caused ’ by volatility , and that volatility is ‘ caused ’ by volume for the NYSE Composite but not the S&P500 . |
| 30 | The ISCSH also found evidence for an association between exposure to passive smoking and low birthweight and said that , since active smoking confers a hazard on the health of the unborn baby , passive smoking confers a hazard on the health of the unborn baby , passive might be expected to confer one also , albeit a smaller one [ 4 ] . |