Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting in the Bahamas the previous month President Kennedy had persuaded the British prime minister , Harold Macmillan , to agree to the MLF in return for American Polaris missiles . |
| 2 | However , the practice is condemned in a recent announcement made by the Vatican on Respect for Human Life in its Origins and on the Dignity of Procreation , which permits a child to be conceived only as a result of intercourse within marriage . |
| 3 | My driver , with raised eyebrows but without spoken question , agreed to keep the Rolls in sight for as long as possible , which he did without trouble all the way back to the city . |
| 4 | But he was able to lend some £300,000 to the Habsburgs in return for political support against pretenders ; and he probably left his son a credit balance of about one year 's ordinary income . |
| 5 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 6 | The peace process suffered a further blow in June when the USA suspended its 18-month-long dialogue with the PLO in retaliation for a Palestinian guerrilla attack on Israeli territory . |
| 7 | The obvious explanation is that the finer points of selection were to be left to the LEAs as compensation for loss of power , because central direction was unnecessary . |
| 8 | Any enquiries relating to centrally developed courses may be directed to the NDOs with responsibility for the area in questions , who will be pleased to keep colleges informed on progress . |
| 9 | An institutional review visit was scheduled for May 1978 , and Hugh Glanville , newly-appointed from within the CNAA as Registrar for Institutional Reviews , had the job of making the arrangements . |
| 10 | He 's been freed by the Normans in return for full recognition of all their conquests to date in Italy . |
| 11 | On Oct. 28 Gerrit van N. Viljoen announced that he would retire at the end of the November as Minister for State Affairs " in light of the increasing demands posed by the negotiations process " . |
| 12 | Although Alex Salmond was chided by party activists during the march , the turnout of around 5,000 buoyed up party managers who had been fearful of low attendance after the MPs ' decision to vote with the Government last Monday night in the Commons in exchange for party representation on the Committee of the Regions . |
| 13 | The deal , finalized in Baghdad on Oct. 17 by senior Iraqi officials and the Executive Director of the UN Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) , James Grant , was formally endorsed in New York by the UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Eliasson and Iraq 's new representative to the UN , Nizar Hamdoun . |
| 14 | Does not that mean that we should be putting a great deal more money into such research or is it to remain the Cinderella of medicine for ever ? |
| 15 | Caring for Children presents information for the UK on provision for children , childcare policies , employment provisions , the demographic situation of the 1990s , and recommendations for national action . |
| 16 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear has been charged by the FA with misconduct for the second time this year . |
| 17 | As it so happens , on Thursday I had the opportunity to visit Derby , together with the Under-Secretary of State for Transport , my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire , West ( Mr. McLoughlin ) , whose constituency is there . |
| 18 | A major exchange of exhibitions of antiquities starts this month when the George Ortiz Collection travels to the Hermitage in return for a pick of objects from museums in the former USSR , the latter showing initially at the Kunsthaus Zurich . |
| 19 | The marshes around Altdorf made it difficult for the Orcs to group for the assault , and several mobs of Orcs disappeared forever when they strayed into the marshes . |
| 20 | ‘ Where 's the S.S.O. with energy for a one-hundred-and-twenty-odd-mile drive there and back ? ’ |
| 21 | For example the decision in Austria to stop subsidies for industrial conversion from oil and LPG to non-oil energy sources ; the termination of the West German home retrofit programme ; the Netherlands ' exclusion of owner-occupied dwellings from eligibility for financial assistance with energy saving in 1982 ; the reduction in the US of funding for energy conservation programmes . |
| 22 | The high-profile tactic was repeated on a corporate level in May with a seatbelt campaign developed with the DTI in preparation for rear seatbelt legislation . |
| 23 | They would come to San Fedele on the morning after a show with bunches of flowers to offer as gifts to the Madonna in gratitude for their safety during the performance . |
| 24 | Even some way down the scale it would have been interesting to know what size bag of silver would accrue to the coffers of the RFU in return for abandoning the traditional white England jersey . |
| 25 | Had we but known that money was so scarce , RW&P would willingly have sent round the collection box to gather money to compensate the RFU in return for keeping the England jersey white ( or , for that matter , the WRU for keeping the Welsh jersey red ) . |
| 26 | A keen traveller , in 1896 Rawnsley was sent as a newspaper correspondent to cover the coronation of the tsar in Moscow , and three years later toured the eastern states of the USA as ambassador for the National Trust . |
| 27 | A pushover try by scrum-half Chris Tynan and another by Gray put the result beyond doubt with Rees kicking a conversion and a second penalty for a 22–0 lead before Gale hit back with a drop-goal and a penalty providing the USA with reward for pressure . |
| 28 | The Philippines government had agreed to drop all pending or future suits filed against the Marcoses in the USA in return for Marcos property there worth some $8,000,000 . |
| 29 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |
| 30 | ‘ Beautiful Miss Clare Mallender blown up by the IRA in mistake for Mr Dysart. 'ighly thought of . |