Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoyment obviously does derive from performing successfully for the side but being determined to enjoy the occasion , be it a wet Northampton Monday or a NatWest Final , should n't be reliant solely on personal success . |
| 2 | Its European outlet , Pinnacle Data Systems UK Ltd , is currently in talks with a European manufacturer to get its products made locally for the UK and continental markets . |
| 3 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 4 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 5 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 6 | Following on from this there should be no difficulty in categorising transactions where gift tokens or coupons are exchanged wholly for a product as transactions under the SGSA 1982 ( compare Davies v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 204 ) . |
| 7 | I mean it 's mostly for the kids or if , w when we 're travelling in the car anywhere . |
| 8 | There is thus now an excess of supply over demand which augurs badly for the UK as its North Sea oil is relatively expensive to produce and this has put certain marginal oil fields out of production . |
| 9 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 10 | After primary fermentation the beer is stored ( the German word is ‘ lagered ’ ) for a short time but rarely for the month or more that is standard abroad . |
| 11 | It extended a few of its probes , which swung around slowly for a while and then pointed towards the going-up jet . |
| 12 | The planting of the woods above Halling continued into the 19th and early 20th century for woodcutters , as well as producing Bavins etc. for the lime and cement industry , planted young trees . |
| 13 | From the very first , he painted professionally for a living and achieved fame primarily for his paintings of Nelsonian and Roman events . |
| 14 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 15 | It is all right for the hero and heroine to go to bed together , although if they actually make love before they are married , a wedding should follow immediately . |
| 16 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 17 | But apparently he 's all right for the weekend because Saturday is a courting-free day ! ’ |
| 18 | Pallister missed the European Championship because of back and foot injuries and Ferguson stressed : ‘ He has worked so hard this summer to get right for the season and I am sure it will pay off for him . ’ |
| 19 | As they became confident , she moved them into faster and more daring exhibitions , inciting them to dive skilfully for a titbit or a ‘ lure ’ . |
| 20 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 21 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 22 | This time the party campaigned more effectively for the treaty and 60% of its supporters voted Yes . |
| 23 | In a sense the music existed rather for the participants than the hearers ; thus they wished only to be helped , or nudged , not commanded , when in danger of error . |
| 24 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 25 | The kitchen door stood open revealing a strip of bumpy grass and yellow sandy gravel wide enough for a coach and four to turn in between the House and the stable block . |
| 26 | The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables . |
| 27 | Dairy cattle … eh , Beh , milk is not food enough for a man and besides I have my fields to plough . ’ |
| 28 | answered and deep enough for a boat if we had one . |
| 29 | He confirmed that the lump on my thigh was indeed big enough for a biopsy and that Dr Slachman would be performing the small operation ( thank God it 's not Bloodnott ) . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's sly enough for a Quaker or that newfangled Methody . |