Example sentences of "an [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly at that time it was accepted that a political career was likely to be an advantage for a barrister aspiring to a judgeship , though it was important that his seat should be safe , as no government would wish to run the possibility of diminishing its strength in the House . |
| 2 | To be aware of the limitations of different forms of publication is an advantage for the reader , who can by this means avoid unnecessary disappointments . |
| 3 | Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ? |
| 4 | Displacing old plant was a good idea , so was fuel diversification and obtaining the technology necessary would be an advantage for the future . |
| 5 | Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position . |
| 6 | Largeness is clearly an advantage for the male . |
| 7 | However , Gross ( 1972 ) obtained an advantage for the left visual field in recall of partially shaded grid matrices and Fontenot ( 1973 ) , Dee and Hannay ( 1973 ) and Dee and Fontenot ( 1973 ) found a left field superiority in recall of random shapes . |
| 8 | Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots . |
| 9 | That a stimulus can be processed either verbally or non.verbally helps to make sense of those otherwise anomalous findings in which verbal stimuli give rise to a LVF superiority ( Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ; Schmit and Davis , 1974 ; Wilkins and Stewart , 1974 ; Hellige , 1976 ; Martin , 1978 ; Jonides , 1979 ; Niederbuhl and Springer , 1979 ) and non-verbal stimuli such as faces ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ; Marzi and Berlucchi , 1977 ; Umilta , Brizzolara , Tabossi and Fairweather , 1978 ) , colours ( Malone and Hannay , 1978 ) or pictures ( Wyke and Ettlinger , 1961 ) produce an advantage for the right visual field . |
| 10 | With instructions to respond on the basis of the smaller letters there should be an advantage for the RVF . |
| 11 | However , longer Morse sequences yielded an advantage for the left ear , but only for the experienced operators . |
| 12 | The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method . |
| 13 | He subsequently found ( Gordon , 1978a ) that these two features show different laterality patterns , pitch yielding no ear difference and rhythm an advantage for the right ear . |
| 14 | As a general rule stimuli which are heard within , or from part of a linguistic context give rise to an advantage for the right ear whereas stimuli heard within a non-linguistic context are more likely to show a superiority favouring the left ear . |
| 15 | While this is an advantage for the parties , it does not facilitate studying the subject . |
| 16 | It may be an advantage for the expert 's decision of which enforcement is sought to be accompanied by reasons , because the foreign court is likely to be more sympathetic to enforcing it in that form . |
| 17 | While in most cases this will be unnecessary for pupils , it may initially be an advantage for the school librarian or teacher for producing lists from the database . |
| 18 | the second anniversary of the preceding general election being reached without an election being called under any of paragraphs ( a ) through ( f ) , provided that : ( i ) in exceptional circumstances , the Federal Executive may postpone such an election for no more than one year by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting ; and ( ii ) this paragraph ( g ) shall not apply if the Leader is a member of the Government . |
| 19 | In the Court of Appeal yesterday the National Union of Mineworkers failed to overturn an injunction granted to its South Wales area in May , banning the union from issuing ballot papers for an election for a new national vice-president because of an ‘ unlawful ’ ruling by Mr Arthur Scargill . |
| 20 | Would you prefer to have another election so that one party could obtain an overall majority or would you prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be an election for a number of years ? |
| 21 | When an election for the state assembly was set a year ago , after five years of direct rule from New Delhi , the militants threatened to kill voters as well as candidates . |
| 22 | Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland . |
| 23 | In accordance with the interim constitution , on April 30 the People 's Assembly held an election for the new post of President of the Republic . |
| 24 | In an election for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) in Alberta on Dec. 5 , Ralph Klein won a decisive second ballot victory with almost 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | An election for the Leader shall be called upon : |
| 26 | It would of course be possible to give them to clarinets and bassoons ( let us hope that no one would wish to use an oboe for the top note of the chords — it would be terribly nasal and obtrusive here , on its bottom notes ) , but the low-placed clarinets would sound rather hollow and ‘ woody ’ for the rich effect we have in mind . |
| 27 | I had developed an admiration for the works of Ogden Nash , whose newest verse appeared almost weekly in The New Yorker . |
| 28 | ‘ I meant as well as an admiration for the works of Knudsen , ’ he interrupted softly . |
| 29 | And plagiarism is often the result of an admiration for the wording of the original — a feeling that such ideas could not be put better . |
| 30 | A third to the far hill range would have been ideal , but something must always be left undone , as an excuse for a speedy return . |