Example sentences of "for we [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
| 2 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 3 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 4 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 5 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 6 | Take advice from experienced traveller Simon Hooton — who 's tested for us a wide range of outdoor clothing currently available — and build up ( or take off ) the layers to cope with everything that 's thrown at you . |
| 7 | In pursuit of this philosophy , the Railway Magazine in 1900 ran a series of articles on the notable British goods station , preserving for us a picture of these hives of economic activity at the height of the railway age . |
| 8 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |
| 9 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |
| 10 | Cornelia Knight has been lifted out of the category of femininity in which woman is famed for her ‘ beauty ’ , itself an effect of class ( food , clothes , health ) and an attempt is being made , using the most canonised resources of western art to imag(in)e for us a combination of femininity and intellectuality . |
| 11 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman has obviously recognised that the Prime Minister secured for us a major competitive advantage at Maastricht . |
| 13 | From the architectural viewpoint the greatest importance of this site , now so excellently opened up and preserved , is that it has preserved for us a provincial Roman city at a certain point in time — A.D. 79 — so that we can see for ourselves the buildings in which such citizens of the empire lived . |
| 14 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |
| 15 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 16 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 17 | William Emser has resurrected for us a brilliantly stupid comment by the eighteenth century classical scholar Bentley on these lines . |
| 18 | ‘ It was difficult 'cos we 'd walk into our dressing room and there would be 30 cans waiting for us every single night , ’ confesses Ashley . |
| 19 | ‘ It opens old wounds for us every time Saddam Hussein is mentioned . ’ |
| 20 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
| 21 | For us an Act of Parliament duly passed by Lords and Commons and assented to by the King , is supreme , and we are bound to give effect to its terms … |
| 22 | This is at best a corrective belief , for whatever else Ulysses or The Waste Land are doing , they are also invoking for us the Dublin of 1904 or the London of 1921 . |
| 23 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 24 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 25 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 26 | Not for us the tourist sledge of the one- or two-day package visitor , a short contraption , more tea tray than means of transport . |
| 27 | Finally , as if rewarding us for our efforts , Yuri provided us with what was for us the highlight of the day — an impromptu performance ( to a disco beat ) which left us in no doubt at all as to why this tall , handsome athlete is Russia 's leading ballet super-Tsar ! |
| 28 | The Bible is for us the primary source of authority but not the only source . |
| 29 | In what way was he for us the focus ? |
| 30 | God could so easily say that , too , but he does not ; he negotiates from a basis of weakness which becomes for us the power of God unto salvation . |