Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 2 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 3 | A meeting at the House of Commons between Maxton , Brockway , Campbell Stephen and McGovern of the ILP , and Pollitt , Gallacher , Kerrigan and Springhall of the Communist Party , laid down conditions for the continuance of the United Front . |
| 4 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 5 | Feta cheese has a storage life of two months ; crumble over salads for an instant Mediterranean flavour . |
| 6 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 7 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 9 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 10 | The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire . |
| 11 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 12 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 13 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 14 | The reader interprets this as " the echo died away " , but is aware that the sound has conjured up birds for the people . |
| 15 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 16 | Suggestions have been made too that WEN and TV 's World In Action were somehow mistaken in their studies or misinterpreted their test results , even though World In Action 's tests were undertaken by RECHEM , researchers who have carried out tests for the industry itself . |
| 17 | The market system holds out opportunities for the peasant , but it also makes his situation more precarious . |
| 18 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 19 | FA Cup Final fever may be dissipating but excitement is only just beginning to mount over plans for a croquet centre of excellence . |
| 20 | Yes , yes Erm one once you 've done that if you could give in diaries for the day and then your time is your own . |
| 21 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 22 | Compatible colours include teal , blueberry or moss , used as liner , mascara , or smudged over eyelids for a dramatic effect . |
| 23 | The decision effectively kills off plans for an open-pit copper and gold mine , the US$430 million Windy Craggy project . |
| 24 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 25 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 26 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 27 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 28 | First it 'll stop off at Brize Norton to pick up supplies for the Tornadoes operating the air exclusion zone . |
| 29 | They thought that it might be excusable to exploit situations to promote the individual MP 's career within his own party or to look after constituency interests , but it was quite inexcusable to open up opportunities for the Opposition to criticize the government . |
| 30 | It is a relatively straightforward matter to sort out guidelines for the conduct of the latter ; much more difficult to control the character of the former . |