Example sentences of "[art] excuse for [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vintage re-issue Stratocasters from any period in Fender 's history are no strangers to the pages of this magazine , and the excuse for examining yet another is the buzz that this particular specimen caused when it was first spotted and unanimously coveted by the Guitarist editorial staff at the Northern Music Show in May . |
| 2 | Caution will have to be the watch word , but caution must not be the excuse for shying away from the challenges of this changing continent . |
| 3 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 4 | The Gold Standard , Bretton Woods , the Sterling Area , the unofficial Deutschmark peg , and the ERM have all provided both the means and the excuse for doing so . |
| 5 | ‘ There should be no excuse for entering late , ’ Whitten , sports development Officer for Lisburn Borough Council emphasised . |
| 6 | My presence there seemed , suddenly , an intrusion ; my curiosity , if not an outrage , at any rate no excuse for going any further . |
| 7 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 8 | Just enough time for a reverse-charge call , and an excuse for getting away if the conversation began to get awkward . |
| 9 | For their part it seems likely that his errors and omissions were welcomed by Lewis and Shinwell as an excuse for breaking away from a situation and a personality they disliked in order to establish their own unions in their own communities |
| 10 | The lesson of history is that doctrine becomes a cloak for power politics , rivalry becomes an excuse for dealing ruthlessly and the rule of fear , paranoia and suspicion means that whatsoever is not for us is against us . |
| 11 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |