Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there are close affinities between education provided in a state and a private school , much of the argument does in the end turn on the belief that there is something different in kind in the educational experience gained by a child in a local community school and one in a private school catering for a particular income group . |
| 2 | Stings in " ed form are taken as they are , with a possible error occurring for a missing closing quote . |
| 3 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 4 | The idea — a version of managed competition — is that each pool , with its thousands of members , will be in a strong position to negotiate for a menu of medical-benefit packages.Health-care providers — physicians , hospitals and pharmaceutical companies — will be compelled to come together to offer these packages or risk losing patients . |
| 5 | Angry telephone calls followed and a strong case made for a review of Japanese regulations . |
| 6 | A narrow majority voted for a ban in parks and open spaces … but moves to make tenants conform to the ban as well were defeated by three votes . |
| 7 | These two facets are complementary rather than necessarily exclusive — an EEIG could come together as a multi-disciplinary vehicle to tender for a construction , engineering or hi-tech project , whether within or outside the Community . |
| 8 | Imagine that you 're a complete beginner looking for a versatile sewing machine for dressmaking , soft furnishings and embroidery . |
| 9 | — and chuckling quietly in the semi-demented manner of someone who is sitting alone in damp clothes in an empty restaurant in a strange country waiting for a twenty-five-dollar pizza . |
| 10 | They decided at a meeting of the Labour group of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane yesterday to set up a working group to prepare for a referendum . |
| 11 | During the takeover battle , questions were raised about the desirability of allowing a foreign airline to bid for a British airline , providing access to Britain 's second largest ‘ hub ’ . |
| 12 | Unlike some of the more academically qualified tutors , Sophie Green believed that if the WEA was to succeed among manual workers it had to be perceived as a social movement striving for a democratic state through its educational purpose . |
| 13 | Paul Newman plays The Kid as a social outcast looking for a father figure . |
| 14 | Thompson is the 4/9 favourite with William Hill to win the best actress Oscar , the shortest odds they have ever given for a British actress nominated for a prize . |
| 15 | ‘ Just like a wet lettuce waiting for a plate , ’ she muttered , colouring at the strange looks she received . |
| 16 | He says this morning one of our postmen was asked to work a different shift to cover for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 17 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 18 | If the length being searched for is 10 or more letters , a further test checks for a ±1 match with the required length . |
| 19 | For an instant she was a primitive creature looking for a hole to hide in . |
| 20 | If , for example , all you wanted to do was to reduce the sleeve length , you could ( provided an alternative length was given ) use a shorter length given for a smaller size . |
| 21 | It was alleged that he had accepted money from a German company bidding for a contract for the construction of the new Macao airport . |
| 22 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a tremendous responsibility caring for a handicapped person . ’ |
| 24 | There is a second condition required for a rational agent to be indifferent between equal forward and expected future spot rates . |
| 25 | The tiny racing cars , operated by two sponsored five-men teams , zoomed around a 24-yard track competing for a trophy donated by Major Marques car restorers of Sherborne . |
| 26 | 7.3 If they touch on the point , discussions of restriction invariably proceed in a way which implies that the property of a restrictive adjective stands for a property which is to be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase . |
| 27 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 28 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 29 | Leave the dough in a warm place to rise for a further 20min , then brush with melted butter and place in the oven . |
| 30 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |