Example sentences of "[art] [noun] for [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A system to convert data from internal and external sources into information and to communicate that information , in an appropriate form , to managers at all levels in all functions to enable them to make timely and effective decisions for planning , directing and controlling the activities for which they are responsible . ’ |
| 2 | In addition to their knowledge and expertise in the activities for which they are currently employed , many have additional relevant experience ( botanical , geological , horticultural ) gained from previous employ or personal endeavour . |
| 3 | In view of Poindexter 's claim that Reagan had authorized some of the activities for which he was indicted , District Judge Harold H. Greene had allowed the defendant to subpoena extracts from Reagan 's diaries and personal papers to assist in his defence . |
| 4 | The general election will be the opportunity for which we have waited . |
| 5 | If the new higher education funding bodies established by the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) were to rely over-heavily on numerical ‘ performance indicators ’ in assessing the extent to which institutions have fulfilled the contracts for which they are funded , institutions are likely to develop course appraisal systems which record performance in just those terms . |
| 6 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 7 | Now they tended to find their victims , and the loot for which they came , locked behind strong walls ; if they ventured too far , they found garrisons sallying from these fortresses and cutting off their escape . |
| 8 | However , many IMRO members do name the accounts for whom they want the firm to deal and these accounts can therefore qualify as indirect customers . |
| 9 | However , like many genetically determined characteristics — some of which indeed may be responsible for illness or deviance — such dispositions may not be expressed , or , if they are , expressed in incomplete form , or even revealed in qualities which at first sight seem distant from , even unconnected with , the pathology for which they are otherwise responsible . |
| 10 | Yes cos I gave father the money for whatever it was , so , yeah , I gave him five pounds worth of change |
| 11 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 12 | Instead of keeping the money for ourselves we will re-invest it on your behalf in your endowment plan . |
| 13 | Less than three years on he is one of ‘ us ’ in the establishment and happy to acknowledge that the reorganisation for which he stridently called is , albeit belatedly , being carried out . |
| 14 | Like the faith for which they argue , the best books are there not to collect dust but to stretch minds and to shed light . |
| 15 | THE foreign ministers of 19 West European countries yesterday laid the foundations for what they hope will emerge as a pan-European association joined by the reforming countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 17 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 18 | By broadening our view of quality from the early days , we 've come to realise its importance as the framework for everything we do . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ By broadening our view of quality from the early days , we 've come to realise its importance as the framework for everything we do . ’ |
| 20 | Since this is a fun , letting-your-hair-down sort of show , there is also a trampoline , a rocking horse , a model , pedal-powered and car battery-operated train as well as rides on Muffin the Mule for which you need only a 5p token that can be purchased , by the bucketful downstairs . |
| 21 | Does it not add to the reasons for which they have to act , and to the considerations which may justify their authority ? |
| 22 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 23 | I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 24 | The reasons for which it is drawn influence the way it is drawn . |
| 25 | It 's an inset problem , and therefore one is looking inevitably at the reasons for which you can moved an inset boundary , supposing that one already exists , which it does n't , but let us suppose it does . |
| 26 | For the latter he quoted a sentence by Lucian , the second-century Greek rhetorician : ‘ A work of art requires an intelligent spectator who must go beyond the pleasure of the eyes to express a judgement and to argue the reasons for what he sees . ’ |
| 27 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 28 | Pupils in resource centre provision usually have the ordinary classroom as their home base , with the responsibility for what they are taught resting with their classroom teacher . |
| 29 | Dr ‘ Bothwell ’ Because we 're so over-burdened by relative trivia and social problems , we can not utilise the skills for which we 're trained … we 're trained to treat medical problems … |
| 30 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |