Example sentences of "as [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlemagne used his womenfolk indirectly as safety-valves for the resentments of male kin , and directly as props to his own authority . |
| 2 | The Church Commissioners also handle the stipends of the diocesan and suffragan bishops , as well as stipends for the deans/provosts and two residentiary canons at all but two of the cathedrals . |
| 3 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 4 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 5 | Section 7 clearly does not cover such contracts , although the SGSA ( treating them as contracts for the supply of services ) would imply an obligation to use reasonable care and skill under s 13 . |
| 6 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 7 | Top panellist was self-styled ‘ rudest man in Britain ’ , ex-copper Gilbert Harding , sacked as co-presenter for the kind of snooty , bullish behaviour upon which Robin Day would build an entire career . |
| 8 | Sir Thomas 's father , Sir Lawrence Dundas , when active in the politics of the city of Edinburgh , was a notable supporter of charities and other good causes , contributing on one occasion as much as £1,000 for the raising of nine companies of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers for service in the American War of Independence , a contribution exceeded only by the city itself , which gave £ 1,050 . |
| 9 | This object is described repeatedly in the Kalevala as the work of the master-smith Ilmarinen , handed over as payment for a bride , but then stolen back , broken in the pursuit , surviving only in fragments ; yet no one knows what it is — or rather , what it was , for its loss is irrevocable . |
| 10 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 11 | He also agreed to grant to the state land at Tatoi as payment for the remainder of his debt . |
| 12 | The idea of Gods as metaphors for the principles underlying the forces of nature was central to the abstract nature of the Indian mind and imbued their philosophy and mythology with a lyricism and beauty foreign to our twentieth-century sensibilities . |
| 13 | Few had any great faith in prisons as institutions for the reform of the inmates they contained , nor of imprisonment as a means of controlling crime . |
| 14 | In this strange , go-ahead land , where the British accent is appreciated as much as enthusiasm for a sales career quite mediocre dealers have landed choice jobs . |
| 15 | The swastika lozenge ( at North Hill and Box ) or swastika in a tilted square ( Culver Street ) is a common motif ; as are triangles ( hollowed at Rapsley and North Hill ) , reversed and used as fillers for the spaces between lozenges . |
| 16 | Eight hours after injection of octreotide and after two weeks of CSOI , V m a x ml ( as index for the amount of bile expelled to the duodenum during a meal ) was not significantly different compared with that of gall bladder contraction without treatment ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 17 | These had originally been envisaged as rewards for the undertaking of religious exercises , but during the late medieval period were increasingly also being sold for cash . |
| 18 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 19 | The Lombard royal hoard was divided , as was often the custom , as loot for the Frankish army . |
| 20 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 21 | Even with the cost of detailed research , a set of reconstruction drawings of a site is usually far cheaper than a physical reconstruction ; in any case , such detailed drawings are generally needed as preparation for a physical reconstruction . |
| 22 | Komarovsky 's ( 1946 ) classic study found that many female students experience conflict between the experience of higher education as preparation for a career and the social expectations that women should be passive , ‘ feminine ’ and marriageable . |
| 23 | In Glasgow Gamble had attended the lectures of the chemist William Cleghorn , as part of the medical training then considered proper as preparation for a minister . |
| 24 | A career that spanned seven years at Oldham and four years with Hibs can now be seen only as preparation for the place where , and the time when , Goram would reach a higher plane of achievement . |
| 25 | He then writes that in the early part of 821/early 1418 , Molla Fenari appointed his younger son , Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali Celebi ( Yusuf Bali ) , as naib for the kadilik of Bursa and with his elder son , Muhyi " l-Din Muhammad Shah Celebi ( Mehmed Sah Fenari ) , went directly to Egypt where he spent Ramadan at the Zayniyya medrese and awaited the arrival of Seyh Zeyneddin , with whom he subsequently made the pilgrimage in 822 , departing from , and returning to , Jerusalem . |
| 26 | It is , in fact , his original watercolours , including studies of Easington , Ormesby and Upleatham churches , and the 12 smaller companion pen and ink drawings that go with them as illustrations for the 12 months of 1992 , which form the central core of this present show . |
| 27 | As proposals for the Hackney to Chelsea tube line will not be tabled until crossrail starts , does that mean that development of the Hackney to Chelsea line will be delayed ? |
| 28 | JAH WOBBLE 'S INVADERS OF THE HEART , GARY CLAIL and rapper BLADE are confirmed as headliners for a World AIDS Day Benefit at Portsmouth 's Pyramids Centre on December 1 . |
| 29 | She had gone to Moscow in 1943 as correspondent for the Observer and the Yorkshire Post , and from this experience wrote Soviet Ballet ( 1945 ) , which helped to introduce contemporary Russian dancing to the British public . |
| 30 | He had come to Addis Ababa as correspondent for the Graphic and he later made use of the occasion to parody what he had seen in Black Mischief and other books . |