Example sentences of "[adj] for [det] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision was a cruel blow for Manley , who was outstanding for most of the game , and the controversy continued after the final whistle . |
| 2 | We believe that it would be right for much of the communication between teachers and parents to take that form at the reporting ages and between them . |
| 3 | By comparison , radio and TV audiences were homogenous for most of the period , not least because there was only a limited choice for 10 years after 1945 . |
| 4 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 5 | I feel quite sorry for some of the airbase families , in fact . |
| 6 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 7 | Though water is solid for much of the year , the annual thaw in spring and summer provides a wide range of aquatic habitats that support biological activity , and may even allow high productivity for a few weeks each year . |
| 8 | The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world . |
| 9 | Although a network based on landlines would be more economic for most of the work , project coordinator Peter Linington of SERC pointed out that Project Universe will act as an important test bed for satellite products and services . |
| 10 | Polar ponds and lakes are limited in their energy uptake by snow-covered ice , which also inhibits wind-stirring for much of the year . |
| 11 | It was a period that I would once have dreaded : short days and biting cold , when the river , so exciting for much of the year reflects the drab January sky and the dead vegetation . |
| 12 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 13 | If you stick to a four-string , F-chord position with your fretting hand , you wo n't go far wrong for most of the solo . |
| 14 | However , a state with k unoccupied rows has 8k children , so the branching ratio starts at 64 and remains high for most of the search . |
| 15 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 16 | Tickets , also free for most of the programmes , are available from the Tourist Information Centre , Green Dragon Yard , Stockton , and The Booking Office , Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 17 | But it is not adequate for many of the tasks of the modern capitalist state which has to intervene increasingly according to a ‘ substantive ’ rather than ‘ formal ’ rationality ( Therborn 1978 : 54 , 89 ) based on highly specialized forms of expertise ( e.g. Dunleavy 1982 : 196–205 ) — for example , in production itself . |
| 18 | Trading was light for most of the day but brisker buying may be resumed when the market opens today if dealers want to ensure they are not left short of supplies by the proposed cuts due to go into force on 1 March . |
| 19 | It would clearly be impracticable for all of a party 's members to foregather from every corner of a region to select and rank its list candidates , so it is sometimes suggested that American style primaries should be held for this purpose . |
| 20 | The only local people who live in the village live in cottages tied to the estate , and many cottages lie empty for most of the year while the number of rural homeless grows . |
| 21 | They were too old for most of the jobs which provided training and which only recruit school or college leavers , and too young for many of the adult jobs which required recruits to be over 21 , and where employers preferred those who were married , with a family and a large mortgage . |
| 22 | Cheshire 's work shows that this assumption is too simple since , for example , main verb DO and auxiliary do behave quite differently in Reading vernacular and in standard English , the patterns of variation in Reading vernacular being quite different for each of the verb-form 's two grammatical functions . |
| 23 | This meadowland or mead land was usually low-lying and damp for much of the year , but it produced an abundance of grass which was cut for hay . |
| 24 | Firstly , it is not clear that data are unavailable for some of the countries . |
| 25 | In any living venture , it is impossible for any of the partners to be detached from the natural dynamics of working together in the project and there may have to be a realignment of membership during the course of the enterprise . |
| 26 | The kind of teaching that they enjoy , value , and entered the teaching profession to do may no longer be appropriate for many of the classes that they have to take . |
| 27 | The woman would think she was avid for more of the background of Benedict Beckenham , which indeed she was , but it was scarcely polite to show it ! |
| 28 | The laws legalising homosexuality were a typical example of benign British hypocrisy , but they left us unprepared for much of the debate that would follow a then unforeseeable epidemic . |
| 29 | A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there . |
| 30 | Reality was quick and did not brook negotiation ; in ‘ that sad swamp on the Potomac ’ , as North later liked to call Washington , reality passed over like a flare of marsh gas , too swift for most of the inhabitants to catch . |