Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Highlights will include an istoriato plate depicting the ‘ Sack of Rome ’ , made in Urbino between 1527 and 1530 by Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo ( est. $100,000–125,000 ; £62,500–78,125 ) , an armorial istoriato charger illustrating ‘ Orpheus charming the animals ’ of around 1520 ( est. $80,000–100,000 ; £50,000–62,500 ) and a tondino made for the Vitelli family of Città di Castello around 1530 ( est. $50,000–60,000 ; £31,250–37,500 ) . |
| 2 | Javed Miandad 's XI was unchanged , but England had a side tailored for the imagined needs of Leeds , Russell , Malcolm and Salisbury making way for Ramprakash , Pringle and Mallender , with Newport ( less than full fit ) and Childs left out of the squad of 13 . |
| 3 | In Kaszubia , Mazowia and Silesia the peasants referred to themselves as Kaszuby , Mazury and Slęzaki rather than as Poles : Polak was a term reserved for the Polish nobility . |
| 4 | I 've got a piece to write for the Overseas Service . |
| 5 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 6 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 7 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 8 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 9 | It 's a girl looking for the middle son , Paul . |
| 10 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 11 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 12 | Around this time , Bruckner likened himself to a watchdog that had slipped its chain ; and four-square as much of the Study Symphony is , it conveys just that sense of a barely-checked yearning for the epic symphonic tussles that Bruckner seems to have been fated to undertake . |
| 13 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
| 14 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 15 | ‘ Actually it 's a tax dodge for the Prime Minister , ’ Scott said smugly . |
| 16 | Nor was a desire to retaliate for the Triple Intervention of 1895 totally absent . |
| 17 | When a vacancy occurs for the top post in a department , the tradition is for the vacancy to be discussed by the head of the civil service with the secretary of state . |
| 18 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 19 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 20 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 21 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 22 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 23 | The Princess of Wales is to play a leading role in a charity caring for the homeless , it was announced yesterday . |
| 24 | A communiqué called for the speedy withdrawal of all external forces from Bosnia-Hercegovina ( i.e. including Yugoslav forces — see also pp. 38918-19 ] and appealed for the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces there to restore peace and security . |
| 25 | She , 17 years his senior , was ebullient , romantic and far too impatient to spend even a minute searching for the perfect phrase when a cliché would do . |
| 26 | We note the elapsed time at that quarter-point , knock off a minute to allow for the initial climb out of Gransden , and mentally predict the arrival time at the half-way point . |
| 27 | The above extracts are from a leaflet issued for the American and English markets by the French manufacturers of Le Creuset fondue sets . |
| 28 | Delegates adopted a petition calling for the mass resignation of the Council of Ministers , the People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) and the central committee of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) . |
| 29 | The role of political pressures such as these as a major influence upon the development of employers ' associations has been emphasised by Adams ( 1981 ) , who puts forward a theory to account for the broad differences between Western Europe and the USA both in the extent of organisation among employers themselves and in their behaviour towards trade unions . |
| 30 | What is different is a flat designed for the disabled where they can gain confidence to live outside |