Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 've got to write a comment for a start |
| 2 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 3 | However , the county council was reluctant to establish a post for a tutor in adult education and other options had to be considered . |
| 4 | He feels the ref should be empowered to demand a substitute for a player guilty of non-malicious , dangerous play . |
| 5 | It is safer to grant a tenancy for a term certain , subject to a break-clause , that is contracted out of the 1954 Act ( Scholl Mfg Co Ltd v Clifton ( Slim-Line ) Ltd [ 1967 ] Ch 41 at 51 ) . |
| 6 | The data base is to be housed at the Norwich Community Workshop , a co-operative set up to provide a centre for a variety of activities , including research on the local economy . |
| 7 | The appeals court ruling meant that several laws restricting abortion passed by other states were more likely to provide a vehicle for a reconsideration of Roe v. Wade than the Louisiana statute . |
| 8 | But the Buid also view themselves as constituting a sort of animal ultimately destined to provide a feast for a class of spirits after death . |
| 9 | Yesterday the Rev John Wilson , minister at Corporation Road , said he was encouraged by local people 's response to efforts the church is making to provide a focus for a range of activities . |
| 10 | Sometimes we do not even need to provide a substitute for a word or phrase which has already been said . |
| 11 | He is also trying to find a manufacturer for a porcelain razor he designed for an exhibition in New York . |
| 12 | His cynicism is understandable — the black humoured script depicts US soldiers as sadists and racists , hopelessly trying to find a rationale for a war that their country can not justify . |
| 13 | International aid agencies , such as UNICEF , the UN children 's fund and the World Bank , are now striving to find a design for a handpump that is cheap and easy to maintain . |
| 14 | It had a competition sponsored by McCartney to find a script for a movie , a declaration by Harry Fainlight about the ( still legal ) pleasures of LSD , it had letters , and , specifically , it had a long epistle from John Wilcock in New York , defining what was supposed to be going on . |
| 15 | The duke 's attitude is made plain in a letter which he wrote to Mungo Graeme of Gorthie in 1737 when asked to obtain a church for a brother of a Graham laird , who was one of the most active members of the Montrose interest . |
| 16 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |
| 17 | BRITAIN yesterday took comfort from reports of an alleged overnight breach between the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , and the French on the need to set a date for a Community monetary union conference . |
| 18 | BRITAIN yesterday took comfort from reports of an alleged overnight breach between the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , and the French on the need to set a date for a Community monetary union conference . |
| 19 | One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set . |
| 20 | The child would be allowed a sum of money to feed a family for a week . |
| 21 | If you had to choose a place for a factory making some similar consumer goods , perhaps pop records , which city , on either side of the Pennines , do you think would be best , and why ? |
| 22 | Section 6 stated that although parents should be allowed to state a preference for a school , compliance with that preference was not required if it would ‘ prejudice the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources ’ . |
| 23 | Vacancies were not the only occasions for such pressure , for there were on occasion officers functioning without a treasury warrant , and should this fact become known , pressure would be exerted to secure their removal in order to create a vacancy for a man with friends among the freeholders or councillors . |
| 24 | We have also , however , shown that market failure can be handled aggressively , ie to create a disadvantage for a competitor . |
| 25 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 26 | She let it be known that this was a cause she would wish to be supported and therefore we intend to open a Fund for a period of six months from 1st March — 1st September at the end of which time the Society will donate the money to the hospital in Molly 's name . |
| 27 | And how much does it cost to hire a helicopter for a day ? |
| 28 | It is not difficult — though may be expensive — to hire a guide for a day ( or a week ) so that you find the best snow available at each time of the day and each season , whether it has n't snowed for a week or is blizzarding as you start the day . |
| 29 | He saw the question of how such contrarious genres as fabliau and romance could co-exist in medieval French literature as a critical problem , and consequently tried to identify a source for a taste which could explain the proliferation and regularization of fabliau , the narrative and comical substance of which he accepted as being ubiquitous . |
| 30 | Queen drummer Roger Taylor has volunteered to organise a super-group for a concert on Ibiza next summer , while impresario Cameron Mackintosh has donated his musical ‘ Five Guys Named Moe ’ for a one-off performance on September 17 on the island . |