Example sentences of "for [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.

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31 Herod Antipas was the ruler responsible for the death of John the Baptist .
32 Here Beowulf and his men are waiting ( the latter without hope ) for the appearance of Grendel the man-eater .
33 Signal morphology was analysed by the probability density function for the amount of time the signal spent away from the electrical baseline .
34 3.1 The Author hereby warrants that the Publisher is the owner of the copyright in the Script and for the avoidance of doubt the Author hereby confirms the assignment to the Publisher of the copyright ( and future copyright ) arising in respect of the Script
35 3.1 The Author hereby warrants that the Publisher is the owner of the copyright in the Script and for the avoidance of doubt the Author hereby confirms the assignment to the Publisher of the copyright ( and future copyright ) arising in respect of the Script
36 The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home .
37 For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established .
38 For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare .
39 However , since the mid-1970s for a variety of reasons the content of this ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ has been reduced .
40 For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons .
41 The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing .
42 Unlike Weber , therefore , who argues that in advanced industrialised societies representative democracy is for a variety of reasons the best available method by which to recruit political leaders , Schumpeter has little interest in recommending political participation for any reason .
43 I say " purport " deliberately because , for a variety of reasons the terms may fail in their objective in any particular case .
44 Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ?
45 They 're in Oxford for a preview of Scrooge the musical … what 's been billed at the hottest show outside of London .
46 You 're summoned for a number of offences the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road namely Acrington Road Worley , used a mechanically propelled vehicle when there was no excise licence in force .
47 Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] .
48 We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point .
49 For a number of years the Broken Axe tribe wandered west and north , conquering the Orc and Goblin tribes of the southern Worlds Edge Mountains and the Badlands .
50 For a number of years the efforts of those who were proponents of this vision were either contained or circumvented by the majority , who resisted such a massive change .
51 That must be extremely dubious , considering that for a number of years the payments were made under protest .
52 While the company has observed for a number of years the thrust of most of the recommendations put forward in the code of best practice , some of our procedures have been adjusted so that the form as well as the spirit of the code is met .
53 For an aeon of time the words meant nothing .
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