Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 2 | For this purpose , we need to show that the roles serve as a focus for patterns of social relationships and for a framework enabling social development . |
| 3 | 17.38 ( i ) Pupils should have frequent opportunities to write in different contexts and for a variety of purposes and audiences , including themselves . |
| 4 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 5 | Classifications of political systems have been undertaken in diverse ways and for a variety of purposes . |
| 6 | an inter-related set of private sector demands for stocks of money , government bonds ( and net foreign assets ) , and durable goods and for a flow of nondurable consumption goods ; these demands depend on wealth and real returns . |
| 7 | His eyes glinted through the black lashes and for a moment he seemed to be offering some sort of olive branch . |
| 8 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 9 | It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women . |
| 10 | It was curling out around the edges of the large double doors and for a moment or two Benny stopped and stared , then with a shout of alarm he ran across the road as fast as he could and pulled on the hanging padlock flap . |
| 11 | All records are for coastal grasslands except for a party of 27 on Glynde Levels on 26 February 1956 . |
| 12 | It is in this last capacity that Hitler 's image as perceived by his loyal ‘ following ’ — functioning within the framework of ‘ charismatic politics ’ — played its crucial role , as not only the leaders of Party and State , but those in responsible intermediary positions — whether for ideological reasons or for a variety of careerist or other motives little related in essence to principled hatred of Jews — ‘ read ’ Hitler 's vaguely expressed ‘ intent ’ as a green light for radicalizing actions which developed their own dynamic and momentum . |
| 13 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 14 | If this were so , then any inclination we may have to think that the heat we attribute to external objects and the bodily sensation of being hot must be alike derives from our using the same word for a quality of external objects and for a sensation , and not vice versa . |
| 15 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 16 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |