Example sentences of "a [adj] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mine is a rich one for the diligent researcher . |
| 2 | In 1991 , British government finances again moved into deficit and the projections are that the deficit will grow but notwithstanding this the market in UK government bonds will remain , by international standards , a medium-sized one for the foreseeable future . |
| 3 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 4 | The subject of travel concessions has been a controversial one for the last few months . |
| 5 | Moving across the Adriatic , you comment that ‘ it has been a bad week for Bosnia 's Muslims and a shaming one for the outside world . ’ |
| 6 | it was a popular one for a talented and local boy . |
| 7 | There is no reason why these should not be made in the home provided the design is kept to a simple one for a first attempt . |
| 8 | In the darkness , arms around each other , they came to a decision , and though the decision was a relief for Chrissie in terms of her two kids , it was a sad one for the two adults . |
| 9 | The battle is a hard one for the anorexic — at first , hard-won , and then hard-lost . |
| 10 | Almost any Japanese dish — except for the deep-fried tempura — is a good one for the discerning eater . |
| 11 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 12 | tape deck , well it varies , you can get one , a double one for a hundred and fifty |
| 13 | HOSPITAL patients were given a COLD lunch yesterday — because the cooks were too busy preparing a HOT one for a royal visit . |
| 14 | The period chosen was a critical one for the British economy , emerging from the difficulties of the post-War period and embarking on a major period of expansion which saw the increase of real wages and affluence in British society . |
| 15 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 16 | The journey is a slow one for the tiny fish do little more than allow themselves to be carried by the river current . |
| 17 | There is a special one for the medical side . |
| 18 | The Loire valley region is especially noted for its châteaux as the fifteenth century court was not yet fixed in Paris and this hunting area was a favoured one for the royal house , who visited loyal subjects in their castle homes . |
| 19 | An honest vote for Labour — or an evasive one for the Liberal Democrats , which will also help Mr Kinnock to Downing Street — signals a return to Britain 's long , tragic , doomed pursuit of a soft option . |
| 20 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 21 | The period between the wars was an unhappy one for the British people in general , and particularly for the majority who belonged to the industrial working class . |
| 22 | Outside the Review the whole area of digitisation of existing research library material is an important one for the 1990s . |
| 23 | The situation is an exemplary one for a structuralist : a young critic is chided by a writer for having failed to identify the motive principle of his work , the ‘ figure in the carpet which governs every aspect of it . |
| 24 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |