Example sentences of "[indef pn] for the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 5 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 8 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 9 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 10 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 11 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 12 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps , just as the BA holds a senior and junior College and University Booksellers Group conference , it could put on two mainline conferences : one for the under 45s , for the men and women who actually do the biz ; and one for the older members of the trade . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The period between the wars was an unhappy one for the British people in general , and particularly for the majority who belonged to the industrial working class . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |