Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a necessity to qualify for a later call to the Bar . |
| 2 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 3 | A few months later , he accepted a contract to play for a Canadian football team . |
| 4 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 5 | Students are admitted into a faculty to study for a particular degree . |
| 6 | Thus , on the facts of the Dodds case , where a landlord gave notice of termination of a tenancy of business premises under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 on the 30 September 1978 , the ‘ four month ’ period during which the tenant had a right to apply for a new tenancy expired at midnight on 30 January , and so his application made on 31 January 1979 was invalid as being out of time . |
| 7 | As was said by the Royal Commission , the police should not , on a warrant to search for a stolen grand piano , look under the floorboards or in the water cistern . |
| 8 | Perhaps the replacement of the flawed philosophy which permits the best batsmen in a team to bat for an unlimited number of deliveries , but restricts the number of overs the best bowlers in a side can send down ? |
| 9 | What a price to pay for an Imperial whim . |
| 10 | Whereas Dysart had the bearing and features of an accomplished thirty-year-old , Ockleton lacked only short trousers and a catapult to pass for a skylarking schoolboy . |
| 11 | With or without heart trouble , Shelby was n't a man to settle for a dull life . |
| 12 | All new members for 1991 will receive a voucher to exchange for a FREE rally ticket of their own choosing ; |
| 13 | A conceivable problem for the Solo is its price — £39,850 is a lot to pay for an unknown quantity . |
| 14 | The exception is the competent and confident young reader like Sharon in Donald Fry 's study ( 1985 , p. 115 ) , who sums up The children of the New Forest with the words ‘ a lot to read for a little bit to happen ’ . |
| 15 | The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ . |
| 16 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |
| 17 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 18 | Once again , you have an opportunity to go for a perfect ton , providing you have produced the goods during the first two days play . |
| 19 | It 's unusual for Festival to extend an invitation to an artist to return for a second consecutive year but that is what 's to happen tonight and we make no apology for it . |