Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm having a shower before breakfast , ’ Steve called out to her , and with a sigh of relief Ruth sank to a kitchen chair to wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 2 | Dorling Kindersley , publisher of sparkling non-fiction guides to dinosaur , is launching a Dinosaur Club to cater for the large number of junior dinosaur fanatics . |
| 3 | Robin Smith from Cheltenham was a computer scientist working for the Government , and a member of the Institution of Professionals , Managers and Specialists , at the GCHQ spy base in the town . |
| 4 | Not every school will be able to travel down to Portsmouth to see the wreck of the Mary Rose for themselves , but they could watch a video about the discovery and raising of the wreck , and carry out a computer simulation to search for the wreck . |
| 5 | Scientific Information Retrieval ( SIR ) is a computer package designed for the analysis of large scale , complex , social surveys . |
| 6 | with a tin mug kept for the bullet hole |
| 7 | It is possible to make a stitch pattern drawing for the vertical buttonhole , shown in Diagram 7 , for the E6000 machine . |
| 8 | Over 50,000 people gathered in response to a opposition call to mobilize for the victory of democracy . |
| 9 | For low inputs , a feedback attenuator compensates for the reduced output ; the difference-of-squares circuit in Fig. 3 , for example , used the attenuator to cancel the factor of 2 loss in gain caused by the sum term generation . |
| 10 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 11 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 12 | Waite actions were begun both in the English and the Irish courts in respect of breach of a licensing agreement providing for the manufacture in Ireland of bullet-proof vests for the Libyan authorities . |
| 13 | The chains for the bridge were cast at Upton Magna in Shropshire and thoroughly tested on a machine Telford devised for the purpose . |
| 14 | ORGANISERS of Hill Sheep ‘ 93 on a Powys upland holding , deserve a round of applause for staging a specialist event tailored for the professional flockmaster . |
| 15 | ORGANISERS of Hill Sheep ‘ 93 on a Powys upland holding , deserve a round of applause for staging a specialist event tailored for the professional flockmaster . |
| 16 | In a famous book ( The King 's Two Bodies ) , E. H. Kantorowicz illustrated his theme of the development of Christ-centred kingship with the depiction of the Emperor Otto III on a page of a gospel book made for the imperial church of Aachen probably in the 990s . |
| 17 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Northampton Town yesterday spent £70,000 — a record cash buy for the Third Division club — to buy the winger Bobby Barnes from Bournemouth . |
| 19 | A massive range of policies included a Job Opportunities scheme for the long-term unemployed ; " Head Start " to provide pre-school education for poor children ; " Upward Bound " to provide college places for the poor ; adult literacy programmes ; Volunteers for Service in America , a type of domestic peace corps ; Neighbourhood Youth Corps to provide part-time jobs . |
| 20 | In general , the US response to the dispute had been very muted , reflecting the prevailing view in the West that the Iraqi campaign against Kuwait was primarily a scare tactic timed for the start of the OPEC conference in Geneva . |
| 21 | A one-ton bomb intended for the Lord Mayor 's parade the previous day was also foiled when an alert police officer discovered a lorry full of explosives . |
| 22 | Shortly before this visit , a UN convoy heading for the town of Gorazde was caught in a minefield . |
| 23 | On 28 January a UN resolution called for the cessation of hostilities , the release of the Indonesian leaders and the restoration of their authority within the Van Mook Line . |
| 24 | If the adoption goes ahead , it will be a fairy tale ending for the little girl whose winning smile and sunny personality stole the heart of a hardbitten war reporter . |
| 25 | A charity clay-pigeon shoot for the Romanian orphans will be held at ‘ The Grapes ’ , Yarnton on Sunday June 17th . |
| 26 | She could sleep now in peace and with her windows open to sweet air and silence , nothing to disturb her in the mornings but birdsong and the lowing of Colonel Covington-Pym 's cattle , the barking of a dog that would most certainly be a pedigree animal bred for the retrieving of partridge and pheasant , as far removed from the yapping mongrel-packs of Frizingley as could be . |
| 27 | A student petition calling for the Chinese government to negotiate with student leaders attracted 80,000 signatures and was presented to Xinhua after another rally on 17 May . |
| 28 | What was until recently the Round House Arts Centre in Chalk Farm Road was originally built as a locomotive turntable shed for the London and North Western Railway . |
| 29 | I went there during my first summer vacation from Oxford , working my passage in a tramp steamer bound for the Black Sea . |
| 30 | You do n't have to be a Mike Gatting to play for the Wimpey cricket team . |