Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the excuse given now for all hunting , but the misuse of a concept of a practice like that proves nothing about whether it is itself legitimate . |
| 2 | Ieuan Evans 's shoulder let him down on his comeback , possibly ruling the Lions wing out for this season , and Neath 's lock prospect Gareth Llewelyn also limped out of contention for a Test place with a knee injury . |
| 3 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 4 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 5 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 6 | The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed . |
| 7 | The car ran steadily for those two hours . |
| 8 | By the time he got his foot to the brake pedal they were down among the mud and the car slid on for several yards before coming to a halt . |
| 9 | The search continues tonight for any other suspect packages . |
| 10 | He flourished it as one of the dragons curved in for another low pass . |
| 11 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 12 | The main change is that the periods laid down for these notices are now in days instead of hours : two days notice is required for the commencement of building works . |
| 13 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 14 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |
| 15 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 16 | The fate laid up for such a man is revealed by the story of Alderman Reed of London , who , ‘ upon a disobedient stomach ’ , refused to pay and gave a bad example to his fellow citizens . |
| 17 | Rationality of expectations implies that if equation ( 6.4 ) adequately describes the process determining then for each country the anticipated rate of growth of aggregate demand will be and the unanticipated rate of growth will be in any period t . |
| 18 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 19 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 20 | The cry went up for more pix . |
| 21 | After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months , lasting well into 1903 . |
| 22 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 23 | It was an emphatic display by Rangers on a night when the lights went out for all English interest in Europe . |
| 24 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 25 | The UK scored lowest for this variable . |
| 26 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 27 | If the baby cries uncontrollably for several hours each evening , it is more likely that the cause is so-called 3-month or 10-week colic ( sharp tummy ache ) . |
| 28 | In the example given below for each entry , the default settings are used when a parameter is omitted . |
| 29 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 30 | The Daily Mirror conceded that the story was ‘ still corny , predictable and thin to the point of malnutrition ’ but believed that the lavish settings , its song-and-dance routines and the cast made up for this and added that Crawford ‘ brings a superb youthful energy to the role of the gawky , naive young clerk ’ . |