Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The car ran steadily for those two hours . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The search continues tonight for any other suspect packages . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cry went up for more pix . |
| 17 | After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months , lasting well into 1903 . |
| 18 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 19 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | In the example given below for each entry , the default settings are used when a parameter is omitted . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | At some point the object spreads sufficiently for this approximation to break down , and the collective bow shock dissolves into separate bow shocks as the fragments accelerate away from one another . |
| 24 | Further , confronted by the uncompromising Ben Hiant ( the Holy Mountain ) which , rising to 1729 feet , bars the way forward , the road turns inland for several miles into a bare moorland before the contours relent and permit a return to the coast . |
| 25 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 26 | The Russians should have the courtesy to move over for some miles into middle Asia , where there is an abundance of space that lies close to them but far from us : let Russia give us sufficient coast on the Black Sea so that , from there we can resettle our beggars and peasants in Asia Minor … |
| 27 | However , for most taxpayers there is a marked difference between marginal and average rates of tax , the latter being the amount averaged out for each £1 of income . |
| 28 | The explanation put forward for this relationship is that where the coverage of collective agreements is extensive , as in centralised-bargaining structures , trade union membership is thereby encouraged since the benefits of agreements are seen to accrue to union members on a wide scale . |
| 29 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 30 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |