Example sentences of "a [adj] [vb base] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain .
2 This pretty island is only an hour away by ferry so you will have plenty of time to get a real feel for the island and begin to enjoy its special magic before it is time to leave .
3 The race is now on to fund what would be a major buy for the museum .
4 If he had his fishing tackle ready , his polo ponies saddled and a 5 note for the church collection he was perfectly content .
5 ‘ We 're not aware of creating a visual identify for the house scene , because we 're right in there .
6 They should have a good feel for the sector 's long-term confidence .
7 By the time the area basic training course starts , trainees should have a good feel for the work of their bureau , and CAB policy and practice .
8 This , combined with the smallish cutting length , make it a good buy for the owners of small to medium gardens , who want the convenience and added safety of a cordless trimmer .
9 It is a vital read for the fan , but in it the group become parodies of themselves .
10 And , as I came to discover later , a genuine feel for a story .
11 A new employ for the aircraft was that of a " minifreighter " .
12 It does not sound like an essential buy for every reader of the Evening Standard , which last Thursday devoted a full page to the facsimile .
13 To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million .
14 Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves .
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