Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 32 | I had suggested that their epic journey through the mountains would make a good subject for a film . |
| 33 | All for a film . |
| 34 | While we had n't asked for a film sample it 's worth knowing that all bureau should be able to offer this service — it can save time and money at the printing end . |
| 35 | There were location notes for a film and sheets about the physical appearance of the characters and the sort of actors who might play them , these surrounded by doodles , mazes and uninspired drawings of faces . |
| 36 | More than once she has been asked , without prior warning , to sit down there and then and play an instrument — usually for a film sequence — and she always complies without a flicker of nerves . |
| 37 | Except for a film version of Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , his film career was mainly an extension of his operetta activities . |
| 38 | Jennings died as the result of a fall on the Greek island of Poros , 24 September 1950 , choosing locations for a film for the European Economic Commission . |
| 39 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 40 | Technically — and particularly impressive for a film produced on a shoe-string — this is wonderfully done . |
| 41 | Following McNicol ( 1972 ) a nonparametric overall measure of recognition sensitivity for individual films was calculated from the collapsed data , this measure , P(A) , corresponds to the area beneath the ROC curve plotted for a film , aggregating the data from all subjects . |
| 42 | YOU ca n't beat the Mafia when you 're stuck for a good idea for a film . |
| 43 | And this , for a film dealing with intergenerational sex and multiple incest , is rather strange . |
| 44 | Yeah but it 's a lot in n it for a film that you never know is gon na |
| 45 | We saw a trailer for a film , it 's Mr was it ? |
| 46 | He paid for a film . |
| 47 | Wish she 'd come and tell me how to set ours for a film that 's on about |
| 48 | I think this book is good for a film actually . |
| 49 | Her hand shook slightly as she reached for a swab , and the child began to whimper as she gently began trying to clear the affected area in order to get a better look . |
| 50 | As for working the ebony , it blunts tools very rapidly and it is really best to use scrapers and stockscrapers when performing shaping operations , as they keep their edge and give a superb shiny finish , leaving little cleaning up but for a rub-over with 400 grit paper . |
| 51 | Nicandra burst into tears and , as she opened her mouth for a bellow , the stored spinach and saliva shot out , into her plate , on to the tablecloth , a horrid defilement . |
| 52 | It might seem a smaller risk to stick to stores and wait for a retailing boom to return . |
| 53 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 54 | It is an appropriate name for a land that lies on the edge of Europe , at the threshold of Asia and along the northern coast of the Black Sea . |
| 55 | In 1721 there was another vacancy for a land surveyor at Port Glasgow , and this time the strongest solicitation was made by George Smollett , whose father was one of the major political figures in the Glasgow district of burghs through his control of the town council of Dumbarton . |
| 56 | Blackwell produced an ingenious if not wholly convincing scheme for a land bank , to provide credit and to help overcome the colony 's chronic shortage of specie . |
| 57 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 58 | He had hoped for a snort at least for this , but Rosie did not react . |
| 59 | In August , we rented a house in Wales , and Shanti and Chris , our son Barney and his wife Veronika , and their children Mark and Rachel all joined us for a seaside holiday . |
| 60 | A railway link came to be essential for a seaside resort . |