Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in the case of contract hire of motor vehicles , the requirement of durability for the whole contract period is often expressly incorporated in the contract where , of course , the hirer pays extra in terms of rentals for facilities such as servicing and the provision for a replacement vehicle . |
| 3 | The local authority had provided half the capital for the dual purpose church and the salary for a youth leader , so the church had obligations to maintain the club open despite continuous vandalism and verbal abuse directed at the elderly people , who became understandably reluctant to attend church . |
| 4 | And , with its disintegration , both were driven to an increasing identification with German nationalism and the proposal for a merger of Austria and Germany . |
| 5 | We sit round on bins , rugs and the floor for a chat . |
| 6 | By a single vote , the Commons withheld confidence from the government , Lord Melbourne sought and obtained a dissolution of Parliament , and the necessity for a Cabinet to secure the confidence and support of Parliament and thus be responsible to it was established . |
| 7 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
| 8 | The Durdin-Robertsons have long since abandoned the horse , the gun and the salmon-rod for a pastime at once arcane and modishly contemporary : the worship of Isis , the Eternal Female , fertility goddess of Ancient Egypt . |
| 9 | Hence , by 1905 the Poor Law faced criticism from all sides and the case for a review was strong . |
| 10 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 11 | A case in point , which we discussed at length in the first edition of this book , is Teesside Polytechnic where the CNAA 's 1978 quinquennial review led to the most critical report ever issued by the CNAA on an institution : among other things , it criticized the local authority for its inadequate support for the polytechnic and the director for a failure in internal management . |
| 12 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |
| 13 | Daphne Statham , director of NISW , summed up the debate as : whether services should be free or not ; joint registration ; equity in geographic provision ; and the need for a reconsideration of the differences between social and health care . |
| 14 | In this instance the issue of accountability was a principal and explicit motivation , and the need for a curriculum review was placed in the context of the need to provide information for the headteacher , the school governors , ‘ feeder ’ schools , and the LEA . |
| 15 | There were no rules to lighter racing and the need for a Committee boat was restricted to the brewer 's generosity in distributing cases of beer and crates of white rum . |
| 16 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 17 | Slight variations in the implementations will occur because of differences in hardware construction — there is no standard method for configuring multiple Intel processors in a system for example — and the need for a range of device drivers . |
| 18 | Anne Boleyn was pregnant ; the King contracted a secret marriage with her and the need for a divorce was urgent to secure a legitimate succession . |
| 19 | It was Madame in the doorway , loudly disputing the accuracy of the information and the need for a power cut . |
| 20 | They usually have their own personal computers , they need to subscribe to technical journals and pay for ( relatively expensive ) training and familiarisation courses in order to update their skills , their work tends to be spread over a wider geographical area and the need for a car is greater . |
| 21 | The question of whether the convictions were safe , and the need for a review to allay public anxiety in the light of the Guildford findings , is raised in a statement by the joint presidents of the Birmingham Council of Christian Churches : the Most Reverend Maurice Couve de Murville , Archbishop of Birmingham ; the Right Reverend Mark Santer , Bishop of Birmingham ; and the Reverend David Good , representing the Birmingham Free Churches . |
| 22 | He informed them of Visconti 's departure and the need for a replacement bass guitarist , and they returned with a friend who played bass called Trevor Bolder . |
| 23 | In Committee when we discussed the needs of the disabled and the need for a code of good practice , the Minister 's response , as it was to everything else to do with consumer interest , was " It will be all right on the night " . |
| 24 | He stressed two major themes : self-determination ( the right of each nation to choose its own form of government and maintain national independence ) , and the need for a world organization of powers ( the League of Nations ) . |
| 25 | In order to appreciate some of the present problems and the need for a reform , it is necessary to examine the pattern of local government as it stood before the 1972 act . |
| 26 | Foreign Ministers from the Islamic Conference Organization ( ICO ) held an emergency meeting in Istanbul on June 17-18 , principally to discuss the crisis in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina ; Turkey 's Foreign Minister and current ICO chairman Hikmet Cetin also highlighted , as key issues , the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the need for a solution to the Cyprus issue . |
| 27 | Communist party critics of the Cuban line stressed its neglect of the role of the masses , its under-estimation of the grip of reformism ( Aprismo ) , especially amongst the peasantry , and the need for a party . |
| 28 | It was then that the feeling of utter boredom would assail him and he would be driven to join the crowd for the buses and the queue for a seat in the pictures in Hereford to pass the Saturday afternoon away . |
| 29 | This level increases depending on our activity and the demand for a surge of blood to be sent where it is needed , for instance to the muscles during exercise or to our brain when under pressure mentally . |
| 30 | Now that is a job worth having — traditionally the stepping stone to the Cabinet and the place for a man of ideas . |