Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these may not be changes for the better and deserve to be treated with some suspicion : the tendency to de-humanise the author-function ; the license offered to slipshod architects of style to pinch and pastiche without mercy and the insinuation of academic jargon into criticism and production . |
| 2 | But what is wrong with change for the better and doing what one is good at ? |
| 3 | There are always two tasks for professionals involved in social change : to change society for the better and to change attitudes . |
| 4 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 5 | Former Stanley stalwarts include Harry Potts , who managed Burnley 's 1960 championship side ; inside forward Geoff Strong who starred for Arsenal and Liverpool but in 33 swansong games for Coventry never scored a goal ; Tommy Cummings who played 434 times for Burnley and thrice for England B ; Gordon Pallister , now 75 , who had 210 matches at Barnsley and Jack Howarth , a bairn at 47 , whose travels embraced 421 games for the late and lamented Aldershot . |
| 6 | Editor , — Ellis Field suggests that increasing the number of consultants to help reduce junior doctors ' hours would alter the nature of senior posts for the worse and advocates a substantial increase in junior staff . |
| 7 | On the first day of BDA Week 1985 twelve deaf children , chosen from various schools for the deaf and accompanied by their teachers and Susanne Turfus , presented the Declaration and a copy of the Report to Sir Keith Joseph in his office at the Department of Education and Science . |
| 8 | She is a voluntary visitor for the West Sussex Association for the Disabled and sits on two village committees and looks forward to serving on the Executive Committee of the Medau Society . |
| 9 | Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable . |
| 10 | In order to safeguard the rights of people with disabilities , we will appoint a Minister for the Disabled and extend anti-discrimination laws to cover this group . |
| 11 | One local housing authority stated that there was ‘ a need for greater provision of special needs accommodation for the disabled and handicapped ’ yet there was no indication as to how such accommodation was to be provided . |
| 12 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 13 | These are designed particularly for the young and contain a strong spiritual element in them . |
| 14 | However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families . |
| 15 | We are spurred on by advertising images that fun is for the young and fit . |
| 16 | But intelligence could not possibly be reserved for the washed and moneyed classes . |
| 17 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 18 | Trudie 's efforts have won her community a bus service for the handicapped and won Trudie herself national recognition . |
| 19 | The aim is to free-up housing for the needy and boost revenue from the city 's 57,000 tenants . |
| 20 | There will be some extra benefits for the needy and help with the increased fuel costs for all pensioners . |
| 21 | The Smiths , though , have little time for the live and let live view . |
| 22 | It 's as if , instead of turning towards metal , early '80s hardcore decided to drop the politics for the personal and pursue some semblance of catchiness . |
| 23 | We 're waiting for the lost and founds . |
| 24 | In 1981 they adopted an action plan for the Caribbean and pledged $1.2 million to a trust fund to finance environmental projects . |
| 25 | They realise that Compact enables them to have a say in the shape of education for the 1990s and to help them meet their projected employment needs . |
| 26 | Ms Lamont , who will take over as chairwoman in March , will set out in a speech to the group its objectives for the 1990s and urge female supporters to continue the fight to shape the party 's agenda to reflect their concerns . |
| 27 | Long Valley Lad ( 9.15 ) looks good enough for the first and Kick The Ball ( 9.45 ) has a perfect Trap 6 draw . |
| 28 | The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases . |
| 29 | They are members of a most valuable organisation which has two main tasks — to care for the poor and visit the lonely . |
| 30 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |