Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of school building as a location for organised activities . |
| 2 | None of the informants from Village mentioned possible economic damage to the community or the loss of the school building as a location for organised activities . |
| 3 | THEATREGOERS will be able to assess the potential of the Klondyke Building as a venue for grand opera when four performances of Bernstein 's West Side Story will be performed there by Opera Northern Ireland this week . |
| 4 | We can date the beginning of the disillusionment with agriculture as a force for rural conservation fairly precisely : the publication of Rachel Carson 's Silent Spring in 1962 . |
| 5 | Another way out of the problem of fraud could be to require from both parties the presentation of a birth certificate as a prerequisite for the issuing of a marriage licence , as is done in some states in the United States . |
| 6 | Mary wrote her life story as a therapy for herself , and also because she felt it might help others caught up , directly or indirectly , in the occult . |
| 7 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 8 | She had been a courtesan before Turakina had bought her contract as a gift for her husband . |
| 9 | Finally , it can be said that the public interest and public policy have played an especially important part as a vehicle for providing a reason for giving redress in those cases in which the parties are not contractually bound . |
| 10 | Moreover , the entire male population of Moussey ( 210 persons ) was taken to a concentration camp as a reprisal for sheltering S.A.S. men ; only seventy came back . |
| 11 | Derek Quinnell , a Lions selector last season in spite of being ditched by Wales as an assistant coach after that traumatic tour of New Zealand two years ago , is back in the Welsh Rugby Union framework as a selector for the Welsh under-20 squad . |
| 12 | The Nepalese government quickly fell in with the World Wildlife Fund 's proposals for ‘ Operation Tiger ’ and Park as a sanctuary for tigers , later enlarged to 360 square miles ( 930 sq km ) with the aid of the Frankfurt designated 210 square miles ( 545 sq km ) of the Royal Chitawan National Zoological Society . |
| 13 | ‘ The two clubs will continue to discuss developments including the potential for the further development of Acklam Park as a venue for first class cricket and rugby . ’ |
| 14 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | ‘ Makes sense , ’ said the Squat , ‘ if he was hoping to use Stalinvast as a playground for his bally hydra . ’ |
| 16 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 17 | In deciding the scope of a " fair comment " plea and the degree of interpretative sophistication to bring to bear on the question of whether a passage is " comment " or " fact " , the court should have regard to the constitutional importance of the " fair comment " defence as a protection for freedom of expression . |
| 18 | Brown ( 1973 ) provided the first set of guidelines to be widely adopted for the calculation of MLU , thus making it possible to use this measure as a basis for comparing language performance across children . |
| 19 | Alternatively the dynamic wealth terms may arise from either the absence of a full interdependent model which would permit disequilibrium in one asset to spill over into other assets or from some otherwise omitted dynamic effects arising from the use of a US wealth measure as a proxy for the true worldwide measure . |
| 20 | The terminal bonus of £250 , an ex gratia payment as a thank-you for five years ' service , is painfully inadequate , advises Alan . |
| 21 | Lord Justice Mann said : ‘ In practice their liabilities will be discharged by their husbands , who may understandably regard payment as a penalty for marriage to a British citizen . |
| 22 | Adam was raised in the jungle , where he 's convinced he received a baboon 's heart as a replacement for his own . |
| 23 | And I think that 's what underpins the advice in Planning Policy Guidance note number three which is seeking to use the new settlement as a mechanism for improving the n the er the landscape . |
| 24 | I have learned never to do this again and the second concerns the use of a lacquer as a finish for fine furniture which I hope never to use again . |
| 25 | They warned Mr Reynolds against ‘ tampering ’ with the Constitution in response to unionist demands for change as a pre-condition for talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Though the parties as parties received roughly equal treatment , the government received additional coverage as a government for activities that were ostensibly unconnected with the election campaign . |
| 27 | On 25 April 1763 Stone wrote to George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v. ] , president of the Royal Society , describing the use of dried willow bark as a remedy for fevers and agues . |
| 28 | Pessimists see this fragmentation as a recipe for disaster , particularly since the Supreme Court ruled that the assembly is sovereign and can decide what it likes . |
| 29 | I lost a lot of time [ lost remission as a punishment for breaking the rules ] , what with the bairn and everything . |
| 30 | Suddenly he realised the single glaring inconsistency in any line of argument which was designed to point to revenge or the settlement of a grudge as a motive for the attempt . |