Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 2 | For instance , there is a whole range of factors which could lead to high food costs , including bad purchasing , storage or portion control , but there is n't any supporting evidence in the case itself for most of these . |
| 3 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 4 | Knighton includes among the demands one for free rights of hunting and fishing , and Walsingham also reports an alleged confession by the rebel leader Jack Straw , which suggested far more revolutionary aims , the killing of all the lords and later of the King , the destruction of all possessioner clergy , leaving only the friars , and the creation of kings in all the counties ( 11 , pp.180–6 , 201–7 , 365–6 ) . |
| 5 | Frank 's incorrigible efforts at flirtation had become tiresome to her and , the truth of the matter was , he was no great dandy on the ice himself for all his mockery . |
| 6 | The Fulton Committee was not , by its terms of reference , allowed to look at the relationship with Parliament but , as a result , it blamed the service itself for many characteristics imposed on it by virtue of this relationship . |
| 7 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 8 | We need not take up the argument here : let us , instead , turn to the more interesting subject of the explanations offered by the Ndembu themselves for certain key symbolic motifs . |
| 9 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
| 10 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 11 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 12 | One problem in this area is that of the patient who for religious reasons objects to a blood transfusion . |
| 13 | The increasing amount of business to be handled meant that more and more decisions were now taken by officials , even merely middle-ranking ones : it was no longer possible for almost every question to go to the minister himself for final decision , as had hitherto been normal . |
| 14 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 15 | That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
| 16 | On the facts which for present purposes must be assumed , the child was born with injuries caused by the act or neglect of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 17 | On the facts which for present purposes must be assumed , the child was born with injuries caused by the act or neglect of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 18 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 19 | Bill Cash is a lawyer who for many years has specialised in constitutional issues , not least that of the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution . |
| 20 | Indeed , Roheim reports that mothers will never deny the breast to a child of any age , even to save a younger one from starvation ; and a child who for some reason can not nevertheless find the mother 's breast can usually find another woman ready to suckle him . |
| 21 | As he had said in a lecture delivered in Dublin in 1936 , ‘ I have myself no capacity whatever for abstract thought or indeed for any sort of thinking ’ ( the Southern Review , October 1985 ) . |
| 22 | J. M. Lee in his essay ‘ Modern Stamford ’ published in The Making of Stamford says , ‘ A real university , if it came , would at least release Stamford from a fate which for such a long time remained a burden upon its political development , that the borough , as the guide books would say ‘ is only of historical interest . |
| 23 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 24 | There can in this view be no room whatsoever for any separate or even semi-independent perspectives . |
| 25 | There is no place whatsoever for other gods . |
| 26 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 27 | ‘ But there is no need whatever for this to mean recession , providing business and industry keep a firm control of their costs , including wage costs in particular . |
| 28 | The second half of the book shows that this is also so for the State , a concept which for many , especially Hegel , was no less holy and fundamental than the family . |
| 29 | A student who for any reason intends to withdraw from the University before the completion of the course of study or research must inform the Academic Registrar . |
| 30 | Second , he assumes that the natural level of output grows at a rate which for any individual country is a constant over time but which may differ between countries . |