Example sentences of "[indef pn] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
2 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
3 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
4 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
5 | He guessed that was how she would always be , blocking out everything for the preferred world of her own creation until an idea was spent . |
6 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
7 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
8 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
9 | In the session 1972–73 the expected workload of the Committee as judged in October 1972 consisted of fifteen proposals for full-time or part-time BEd courses , as well as one for a full-time Diploma in Educational Technology and a Further Education certificate . |
10 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
11 | Multiple-step paraffin sections ( 4–5 m ) were immunostained with two ET-1 antisera — one for the c-terminal pepetide of ET-1 and one for the c-terminal peptide of big ET-1 ( big ET-122–38 ) — µby the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method . |
12 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
13 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
14 | Cold water feeds are usually fitted with gatevalves near to the cistern ; the one for the cold feed to the hot water system is generally fitted near to the hot water cylinder . |
15 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
16 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
17 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |