Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space . |
| 2 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 3 | There is a similar earnings rule for the dependent wife 's pension , and for this purpose an occupational pension also counts as earnings if the wife is under 60 . |
| 4 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 5 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 6 | Many students find it useful to spend two or three minutes drawing a key words map for the questions they intend to answer . |
| 7 | Poet and visionary climber Edwin Drummond is about to achieve his ambition of a United Nations Climb for the World , now sponsored by the Sheffield firm Fretwell-Downing Datasystems . |
| 8 | The Shippers Club is a vital communications link for the airline , helping it to monitor requirements such as the spread of capacity geographically . |
| 9 | Full marks to Wallace , who finished with a seven feet putt for a 73 after almost holing his tee shot , a four iron , at the short 14th . |
| 10 | The paper-maker , Bowater , still basking in an optimistic profits forecast for the full year , firmed 7p to 507p . |