Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They were among four Russian boys who travelled to Westonbirt school near Tetbury to meet two Russian girl orphans , who 'll be educated free of change for a year . |
2 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
3 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
4 | For any chartered accountant interested in the package , Aldercare is offering the package free of charge for a 30-day trial . |
5 | XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis . |
6 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
7 | The latest initiative is the Livingston Software Innovation Centre — this is the only organisation in Europe that aims to remove the hassles plaguing start-up companies , by providing them with ‘ a nice roof over their heads ’ free of charge for the vital six months to a year before they start making money . |
8 | Textbooks published by the Institute/Faculty are available to tutors free of charge for the subject in which they are tutoring on application to the office of the Education Service . |
9 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
10 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
11 | For the Armagnacs , the acquisition of Rodez was the equivalent of that of Béarn for the counts of Foix . |
12 | For the duration of the evaluation this space remained undeveloped , and although minimally used as a work area by some children , its main function was that of storage for an embryonic collection of newspaper cuttings . |
13 | They compared the chemistry with that of run-off for the land , looking for sources of nitrogen . |
14 | He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States . |
15 | The wide acceptance of the positive value of collective action , typical of Italy for a long time [ which ] meant a well-established tradition existed for mobilising community support . |
16 | If you 're rich/daft enough you can pay hundreds of pounds for a 1 metre pair of pure silver , hand-woven , dew-picked interconnects to join your three grand CD player to your ten grand amp ! |
17 | You do not have to spend much money on these items for basic hacking and general enjoyment of your horse/pony but you could spend hundreds of pounds for the best . |
18 | Hundreds of enthusiasts for the culture of the native American Indian have been attending a Pow-Wow . |
19 | He was being sacrificed along with hundreds of others for the sake of an ideological principle . |
20 | The presence of hundreds of journalists for the game ensured the kind of publicity that Miami preferred not to have . |
21 | The building and operating of the new telecommunications infrastructure is expected to create hundreds of jobs for the area . |
22 | Shadowlands stars Sir Anthony Hopkins , who was joined by hundreds of extras for a scene recreating university life in the 1950's . |
23 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
24 | He was glad of Nathan for the close work , preferring by far to dictate to him , as he had used to do to Dinah , than to write directly in his own hand . |
25 | Also worthy of mention for the Construction sub-sector is the growth in domestic waste traffic . |
26 | The UK Queen 's Awards for Industry system has been extended this year to include an environmental category , with twelve companies being judged worthy of recognition for a " significant advance " offering " major benefits in environmental terms compared to existing products , technology or processes " . |
27 | The owner of the horse , realising his value , and that a king would pay a handsome price for him , offered him for sale to King Philip II of Macedonia for the enormous sum of thirteen golden talents . |
28 | She lived in a bungalow provided for her and at the time of Mr Farrington 's death was receiving £2.50 per week for her services and paying £1.50 a week inclusive of rates for the bungalow . |
29 | The Mas Rose had no gas , no electricity , no running water , but it was on the mountain , it had a spring , the air was pure , one could see the Ventoux , famous of course for the love of Pétrarque for Laure . |
30 | The picture was followed by a group of five gouache studies of around 1954–55 for Sutherland 's Coventry Cathedral tapestry , all of designs for the Crucifixion on a variety of coloured backgrounds . |