Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the industry is responsible for half our fixed investment and accounts for a third of our manufacturing base . |
| 2 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 3 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 4 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 5 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 6 | But Labour ‘ won ’ on a minority vote and governed for the next five years . |
| 7 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 8 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 9 | And Paul de Levantiére would sigh , turn with a resigned expression to his fitter and ask for the next outfit to be tried on . |
| 10 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 11 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 12 | If Bowe wins and opts for a first defence against veteran George Foreman , the WBC have confirmed they will strip him of the title and declare Lennox Lewis champion . |
| 13 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 14 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 15 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 16 | While the aide translated these remarks Joseph Sherman took the opportunity to glance around the room and noticed for the first time that groups of diminutive Annamese were standing quietly with their wives among the taller European men and women . |
| 17 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 18 | There was a small band away from the tables , and the singer had started as he had begun his meat and called for a second bottle . |
| 19 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 20 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 21 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 22 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 23 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 24 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 25 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 26 | Or chortle and wait for the next T-shirt ? |
| 27 | Nadine clicked her tongue and smiled for the first time . |
| 28 | Only the terror of being caught by the creature — I could all too clearly imagine myself being hurled from the roof — drove me to climb over into space and feel for the first rung of the ladder . |
| 29 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 30 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |