Example sentences of "for a [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis .
2 He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes .
3 Tug of Gold has also returned in great heart , only put up two pounds for a 10length romp from subsequent scorer Rio Haina at Uttoxeter last month , and must rate a big danger .
4 I do n't know how much turf they to put on this here for a pris for a prisoner to kick a ruddy football on .
5 Cos any spare the men or that they were usually away for a har taking up a harvest .
6 Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits .
7 It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana .
8 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight-node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000-processor model .
9 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight-node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000-processor model .
10 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight-node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000-processor model .
11 Perhaps the most successful maker is Peugeot , with a complete range of cars from the small 205 — around £3,000 for a 90,000-mile 1985 car — to the legendary 504 estate , about £2,000 for a 1982 example .
12 Somewhere along the Ob river in central Siberia , slowly building strength for a 3,500-mile flight , wait perhaps 50 Siberian cranes .
13 Greens suggest 170 kilo ( 3751 b ) line for their ST3 and this is sound advice for a 2.75sq.m ( 30sq.ft ) kite and attendant dangling weights .
14 Push every alternate needle back to non working position for a 1x1 rib or every third needle back to non working position for a 2x1 rib .
15 An ordinary page printer can , of course , only produce a black and white image which can incorporate a few levels of grey , perhaps up to 16 for a 300dpi PostScript printer .
16 QUALITY control checker Kerrie Ratcliffe would like to say a big thank you to employees at Tuscan who donated hundreds of tins of dog food for a Stoke-on — trent dogs home .
17 The trade weekly says that United Microelectronics Corp will produce the first commercial version of the chip set using a 0.6-micron CMOS process and pitching for a 50MHz , 39 MIPS CPU for availability oapart in the second half of the year .
18 United Microelectronics Corporation will apparently produce the first commercial version of the thing using a 0.6-micron CMOS process trying for a 50MHz , 39 MIPS part in the second half of the year .
19 Thus reduction in pH of saliva from pH 8.2 to 7.2 accounted for a 2.2% reduction in amylase detection ( p=0.004 ) .
20 Facial Oils : For a ½ per cent concentration add one drop of essential oil to every two 5 ml teaspoonsful of base oil .
21 For a ½ per cent concentration , add 5 drops to 50ml of base oil .
22 The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits .
23 The profession can not be certain how much this will save , as it depends on the amount provided for when the supply estimates were settled ; but we estimate a saving of £15 million on the assumption that the Government would have provided for a 1.5% increase .
24 Like her mum , she 's sent off for a cat catalogue , she got it , you know within thirteen days I think it was .
25 Chairman Sir John Hall will unveil plans shortly for a 38,000-plus all-seater stadium at St James ' Park , to be completed by 1996 .
26 The budget , which was subject to a Knesset vote later in the year and which assumed US Congressional approval of fresh loan guarantees [ see p. 37749 ] had been drawn up contrary to recommendations by Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i for a US$470 million cut in the military budget .
27 The body was taken away for a post mortem which revealed pressure marks on her neck , she had apparently been throttled .
28 The body has now been removed to the Princess Margaret Hospital for a post mortem .
29 I HAVE N'T done too badly for a short-***** , bandy-legged Welshman .
30 Left three children there and took the took eleven year old for a wa , dog for a walk , and nobody knew she 'd left them there , cos she did n't come back until Sunday afternoon at three o'clock !
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