Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some in due course opt for a diploma programme . |
| 2 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 3 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 4 | In order to excavate the site itself , a new road had been built and a viaduct constructed to carry it across the valley before it climbed through the wooded hillside to the rocky crag chosen for the location of the church which formed the heart of the project . |
| 5 | A narrow majority voted for a ban in parks and open spaces … but moves to make tenants conform to the ban as well were defeated by three votes . |
| 6 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 7 | There emerged a consensus that such are the limitations of the EMS that the system can not provide the monetary framework required for the creation of the single European market . |
| 8 | On Nov. 22 the European Parliament called for an investigation into the activities of secret anti-communist organizations , especially Gladio , which , it said , had " escaped all democratic control " . |
| 9 | The sole permission required for the entry of modules into LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | One of the possible reasons suggested for the relationship between risk and recall in Study 1 was that performing risk-related judgment tasks while driving had made that information particularly memorable . |
| 11 | Angry telephone calls followed and a strong case made for a review of Japanese regulations . |
| 12 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 13 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 14 | It is evident that the classical Hindu tradition , in which Gandhi was nurtured , recognized the importance of family life as providing the cohesive force required for the well-being of society as a whole . |
| 15 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 16 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 17 | It is our usual practice to ask for a payment in advance of costs and thereafter to submit an interim bill every six months . |
| 18 | For democratic elitists the state is directed by legitimately elected political leaders ; it is a driverless car which political parties compete for the right to manage . |
| 19 | While the Georgian delegation called for a return to military positions occupied prior to Oct. 1 , the Abkhazians insisted on a complete withdrawal of Georgian troops from their territory . |
| 20 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 21 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 22 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 23 | They do n't congeal round any unifying principles beyond a vague commitment to an idealised model of the intellectual free market in which different discourses vie for the reader 's attention — like a basket of competing currencies battling for prominence against the deutschmark or the yen . |
| 24 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 25 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 26 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 27 | The need to differentiate between different types of riot and the contrasting meanings involved for the participants is recognised by Smith ( 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Instead , we opened with a symphonic version of the ‘ Dead March ’ from ‘ Saul ’ , fading out into the reading of a six-stanza poetic eulogy written for the occasion by a local lady admirer and 1OAB fan . |
| 29 | There is little comfort for foreign creditors hoping for an end to the six-month moratorium on debt payments . |
| 30 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |