Example sentences of "such [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The periodic swarming mass of adults provides such a surfeit for predators that the majority of the cicadas survive to lay eggs . |
| 2 | Unfortunately there is no semantic theory currently available that is able to work in such a way for a broad coverage of English . |
| 3 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 4 | He claims he had to develop such a style for his latest role , as the couch potato host of TV Hell , last month 's one-night-stand featuring some of the classically bad moments of popular television . |
| 5 | Such a requirement for express agreement of admissions policy is difficult to reconcile with the more limited requirement that governors should simply ‘ consult ’ the local education authority which was introduced for the first time by section 33 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 6 | A child may appear before a hearing for reasons other than offences ; and he will have a disposal tailored to his needs for care rather than to the seriousness of the offence ; and a child may not only be put under a supervision requirement for reasons other than an offence , but he may remain under such a requirement for a period of years for reasons completely unconnected with breaches of the criminal law . |
| 7 | The Ixmarites would not tolerate such a man for long , I am sure . ’ |
| 8 | She tried to imagine such a life for herself , but could not . |
| 9 | Only an eccentric would consider spending £1,000 on such a course for fun , and the company would probably refuse to accept such a trainee . |
| 10 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 11 | He has such a capacity for unreflecting cruelty now . |
| 12 | In the view of Nicholas Soames , though , such a capacity for reasoned assessment is , apparently , almost non-existent . |
| 13 | She had such a capacity for joy that she overcame such negative feelings , ’ Bettina explained . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
| 15 | At that stage any pressure may be such a test for faith that the believer is faced with a choice : Give up or go back to square one . |
| 16 | The UK government was also thought to be contemplating using such a camp for the screening of possible future refugees to reduce the flow into Hong Kong . |
| 17 | What might be included in such a checklist for the reform of the DHAs ? |
| 18 | Such a night for a ten-year-old child to be out on the North Sea , as by now she must be , if contrary winds had not driven the ship back into port . |
| 19 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 20 | The advantages to the Commission of programme financing arose from the long-term nature of such a plan for regional development , which required agreement on financing arrangements in advance from all the concerned parties down to the local government level . |
| 21 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been such a brick for carrying on while I was away . |
| 23 | Ash End House Farm was such a success for parents and children that I have organised another day out for the Christmas Holidays . |
| 24 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 25 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
| 26 | You can not want such a person for a wife , and I certainly do not want a husband who thinks that of me — even before marriage . ’ |
| 27 | Many of the examples that we have given throughout this material have shown such a trend for a short period . |
| 28 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 29 | How could she , even fleetingly , entertain such a thought for a man who despised her so deeply and so openly ? |
| 30 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |