Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the opportunity for his own outside activities , your husband may also need an ‘ escape hatch ’ — a study , a greenhouse or workshop , or at least time alone , so that he , too , can potter about and recharge the batteries . |
| 2 | But Haig , ever the optimist , intent on winning the war with the BEF , now had the opportunity for his long-cherished campaign in Flanders . |
| 3 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | Champ 's target WORLD heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield forecasts that the challenger for his title early next year will be Britain 's Lennox Lewis , whom Holyfield is tipping to beat Razor Ruddock in their eliminator in October |
| 5 | The prince for his part seems to be working on a deal to give the Khmers Rouges a role in the political system . |
| 6 | In Algeria , at the Maison Alletti , the large , low-built house which the old baron had had built in the late 1920s , which formed the base for his Algerian vineyards and timber plantations , and which was built among gardens on the slope of a hill , overlooking the city and the breathtaking bay of Algiers . |
| 7 | It was the base for his ‘ Highgrove set ’ , the gang of pals which included Camilla Parker Bowles whose friendship with Charles over the years made Diana so jealous . |
| 8 | Campaigner : Father James Morrow at the former 18th century Catholic chapel in Braemar which has become the base for his national campaign |
| 9 | It is always desirable , at least in the superior courts , to refer the court to the cases cited by the writer for his propositions . |
| 10 | Smith received the award for his commitment to " greening " the Labour Party , his efforts to keep the environment on the Westminster agenda , and his radical thinking on integrating economic and environmental policy . |
| 11 | Tommy Steele has been chosen for the award for his part in the 1970 's musical Hans Andersen , in which he played the title role . |
| 12 | He 's been given the award for his role in ending the Cold War , freeing the Eastern Block and resolving regional conflicts . |
| 13 | United 's Darren Ferguson is likely to give way for Robson 's return , but manager Alex Ferguson softened the blow for his son when he said : ‘ The players know I 've been loyal to them because they have fought hard with little reward . |
| 14 | On Edgar 's death , a faction sought to win the throne for his younger son , Ethelred , but Edward was elected king by the witan , influenced by Dunstan . |
| 15 | If Nick Serota can raise the money for his plans then I would support them , provided the bulk of the historic British collection was on display . |
| 16 | He had refused to touch what he called the Stavanger Final Insurance even when he needed the money for his fleet — why should he use it now for what was only indirectly of concern to him ? |
| 17 | During his 30-minute speech , the hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East did not once say where the money for his proposals — other than those on training and investment — would come from . |
| 18 | The accused , a company director , drew cheques on the company 's account and used the money for his own purposes . |
| 19 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 20 | She collected the money for his drink , and got away from him as fast as she could . |
| 21 | But some still want to know where all the money for his cancelled concert ended up . |
| 22 | And while Clinton wants to shave $8 billion from the Pentagon 's spending , he has earmarked the money for his industrial policy — on civilian R&D . |
| 23 | we 'd give you the money for his food and that little Sparkie |
| 24 | The merchant goes from Bruges to Paris , via his home at St Denis , to raise the cash to pay a pledge made in Bruges , and in Paris asks the monk for his hundred francs . |
| 25 | Perhaps I should always take the case for his solution as being 20% stronger than it would otherwise appear to me to be . |
| 26 | The duke 's first establishment as a junior member of the royal family had probably been created by secondment from the royal household , as had also been the case for his brother Clarence . |
| 27 | The writings of the late Richard Titmuss , perhaps the most important British student of social policy , deals very fully with arguments between these two viewpoints , the case for his moderate socialist position against those who extol the virtues of the market . |
| 28 | Reflexions Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ( 1744 ) , his first book , cogently argued the case for his product over the well-known medicine of George Berkeley , bishop of Cloyne [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | The duke 's first establishment as a junior member of the royal family had probably been created by secondment from the royal household , as had also been the case for his brother Clarence . |
| 30 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |