Example sentences of "competition for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competition for a healthy pot plant was won by A McClelland while S Coll was runner-up . |
| 2 | Christopher Grasby , Brendon O'Neill and Tom Zetek , all architects working at Rock Townsend , have won the competition for a new pavilion at Soane 's Dulwich Picture Gallery . |
| 3 | Further to my note of 11th December , Susannah Wainman of SAWD Books writes to me with more details of the competition for a new logo for the Independent Publishers Guild . |
| 4 | Oxford Medical has fought off worldwide competition for a major slice of the lucrative American market where health is big business . |
| 5 | That at the age of 60 he still commanded support from the government and public is shown by various events in 1800 , linked with a competition for a second chef : ( The finalists were required to rehearse a new work and direct a public performance : sufficient evidence , if needed , of the central responsibility of the post . ) |
| 6 | Included in the fair is a ‘ video box ’ with twelve monitors and a competition for a large-scale sculpture or installation . |
| 7 | Competition for a charming winter scene with a vague attribution ‘ entourage de Lucas van Uden ’ pushed bidding to FFr 55,000 ( £5,600 ; $9,800 ) , far above the top estimate of FFr 15,000 . |
| 8 | In 1785 he won the competition for a public building in his native county of Angus , the town and county hall in Forfar ; at about the same time he secured the patronage of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v. ] , the most powerful man in Scotland , for whom he designed Melville Castle , Midlothian ( 1786–91 ) ; while his small number of English patrons included the collector Sir George Beaumont [ q.v. ] , to whose London residence he added a picture gallery ( 1790–2 ) . |
| 9 | The competition for a knitted Easter bunny was won by Mrs. Coyte , second was Mrs. E. Budd , and third Mrs. Jackson . |
| 10 | Competition , feared at first for its degenerative effects on programme quality , was rationalized as consistent with public service principles , because it was not driven by competition for a single source of revenue , as in the USA , but ensured a proper sensitivity to audience needs . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose there 's a lot of competition for a pretty woman ? ’ |
| 12 | However , she found that there was too much competition for the small number of places available on training courses . |
| 13 | Although this balance is not entirely based on direct measurements , it shows how the observed interactions between sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in vivo can be understood as competition for the mutual substrate hydrogen . |
| 14 | This will inject fresh blood and competition for the established ELT publishers , who might just have grown a little too complacent . |
| 15 | Critics complained that instead of just handing him the challenge , Spain 's arts ministry ought to have held an international competition for the best scheme . |
| 16 | These people came in yesterday , he told me , who were judging a competition for the best window displays in the Kings Road . |
| 17 | But first there must be an architectural competition , and before that , a competition for the best idea for a competition ; pending , of course , the decision as to whether the monument will be built . |
| 18 | There 's going to be a competition for the best alternative verse I think . |
| 19 | There 's a competition for the best photograph |
| 20 | ‘ They 're all far too busy taking part in the competition for the best raft to be interested in what we 're doing . ’ |
| 21 | These remaining few have invariably grown much larger than was previously possible when there was so much competition for the available food . |
| 22 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 23 | This is likely to mean ITN will face competition for the first time . |
| 24 | BBC radio will face national competition for the first time with the establishment of up to three national channels . |
| 25 | However , as EC businesses restructure themselves in preparation for the single market and as previously protected industrial sectors are open to competition for the first time , takeover activity is one means by which new corporate entities can be created and structured on a pan-European basis . |
| 26 | The win took Cambridge to the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time in their history , following their recent proud FA Cup record of reaching the quarter-finals each year from 1988-1990 . |
| 27 | CELTIC aim to rewind the tape and produce an action replay at Parkhead tonight when they bid for a place in the third round of a European competition for the first time in nine years . |
| 28 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 29 | It was in the corresponding race last year , held at Gateshead , that she returned to top class competition for the first time since giving birth to daughter Rachel . |
| 30 | Even if Andy Goram should miss the game and Ally Maxwell is introduced to European competition for the first time , Hugo Broos , the Belgian side 's coach , will refuse to read too much into that change . |