Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We could all fly to Paris in perfect safety if we were prepared to pay £1,000 for a ticket , since we would then travel with the same cast-iron safety precautions as do heads of state .
2 For example , if the current rate of interest were 20 per cent , no one would be willing to pay £100 for a bond that only yielded £10 per year .
3 Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire .
4 Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) .
5 The threaded portion is ½in BSP ( sink , basin and bidet taps ) or ¾in BSP ( baths ) ; sink taps are taller to allow room for a bucket underneath .
6 I 'm supposed to take care for a while .
7 In one of his most vivid dreams , he saw a large aspirin bottle , labelled : ‘ Guaranteed to mask pain for a while ! ’
8 It was bulldozed into oblivion in the 1970s to make way for a couple of undistinguished skyscrapers and a brick-pathed wasteland called by the city , a park .
9 The couple would like to care for Leah at home fulltime , but have been told they would be unlikely to receive funding for a night nurse to look after her while they slept .
10 Anyway Mike is ill in hospital at the moment and unlikely to play chess for a bit . ’
11 What fixes the result of a particular experiment when the theory is only able to assign probabilities for a variety of possible outcomes ?
12 Lafontaine , although regarded as a better orator than Kohl , was unable to draw support for a campaign which concentrated on the cost of unification ( he had initially opposed the treaty on economic and monetary union — see pp. 37535-36 ) and on social and environmental issues .
13 And they are happy to pay £5 for a five-litre tub to spread on their roses .
14 But since it had been adopted , the Councillor mentioned above was able to get approval for a motion acknowledging that the Education Committee had voted to close the school on grounds incompatible with its own policy .
15 The Tolson Memorial Museum is in Ravensknowle Park , where some parts of the town 's eighteenth-century Cloth Hall have been re-erected , after the historic building 's demolition in 1930 to make way for a cinema the local product was displaced by fantasies woven in Hollywood .
16 ‘ But , ha ! ha ! able to make time for a dance , ’ Herr Hocher said .
17 Unless they received an assurance , within twenty-one days , that the trustees of the church would not proceed until listed building consent had been obtained , our solicitors would seek leave of the Attorney General to bring proceedings for a declaration that listed building consent was required .
18 Lily Morrison was due to have treatment for a hernia but , after a three hour wait in a side ward , was told the operation has been cancelled .
19 Pecham was equally ready in 1290 to raise taxes for a king who had followed up his crusader 's vow with the expulsion of the Jews .
20 It was one thing in the 1830s and the 1930s to provide luxuries for a minority , but it was quite a different thing to provide non-essential products at a competitive price for the whole population .
21 Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel .
22 Mm yeah there , there is a need to exceed proper limits , he says , that proper limits have to be exceeded in order to right a wrong er it 's also he says necessary to create terror for a while .
23 And they 'll be keen to take revenge for a defeat at Pollock Park a fortnight ago , a grave setback to Waringstown 's bid for a third successive crown .
24 In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib .
25 The health authority wished to demolish this very attractive group of buildings dating from 1838 to make way for a car-park .
26 He came virtually as an unknown to join Hampshire for a season , as temporary replacement for Malcolm Marshall .
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