Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 2 | ‘ Criticising my age is like a footballer going for the man rather than the ball . |
| 3 | A popular edition is a version of a text intended for the general rather than the academic reader . |
| 4 | Winger Gareth Pratt , signed from Rochdale amateur club Mayfield , bagged a debut try for the home team after David Hill and Mike Blakeley had also crossed . |
| 5 | Ketotifen , a drug used for the prevention of asthma , was found to decrease significantly the extent and severity of experimental colitis in two rat models . |
| 6 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 7 | Lisa Sutcliffe , Christopher Filtock , Iain Cropper and Hayley Waller with a certificate awarded for the school garden |
| 8 | Blows were exchanged between members of the audience somewhere at the front and the whole scene developed into a riot , with others not wishing to get involved in a fight scrambling for the exit . |
| 9 | As I had suspected , we were the only folk rash enough to have booked into a cow shed for the night . |
| 10 | The handsome admirer , said to have called Diana ‘ Squidgy ’ , crunched his company car as he tried to dodge a photographer working for The Sun . |
| 11 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 12 | John Garmston Hopkins died at Belmont House , Worcester , on 22 January 1871 and his father commissioned Francis Charles Earl of Worcester Broad Street to immortalize the lad in a photograph destined for the churchyard memorial . |
| 13 | Stay at Goulding 's Lodge , a ranch built for the set of the movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( this , remember , was John Ford country ) and surrounded by high open desert . |
| 14 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |
| 15 | The fact that consciousness is able to operate independently of the physical vehicle has been proved throughout vast research , and that an ‘ interconnectiveness ’ exists between mind and matter was brought clearly into focus in a study prepared for the House of Representatives Science and Technology Commission in the United States , back in 1981 . |
| 16 | The predictions are made in a study co-ordinated for the University of Maryland . |
| 17 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 18 | Before the 1988 Act , anyone copying a design would infringe the copyright in a drawing made for the design even though that person had never seen the drawing , because making a three-dimensional copy of a two-dimensional work infringed the copyright in the latter and vice versa . |
| 19 | I stay in my corner like a boxer waiting for the bell . |
| 20 | Giving judgment in a case that has so far been heard in camera , Mr Justice Hoffmann ruled that Mr William Goodwin , a journalist working for The Engineer , must hand over his notes of a telephone conversation with his source . |
| 21 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 22 | Himself and two colleagues , and even a car found for the escape run , and a homemade pistol that would be sufficient to unnerve the cashier clerks . |
| 23 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 24 | In Chapter 5 Ryan shows how her formula can be used as a " fiction automaton " , that is as " a machine built for the purpose of telling fiction from non-fiction " ( p. 80 ) . |
| 25 | After that exercise we spent an hour and a half preparing for the case study which we would have to accomplish the next day . |
| 26 | It seems a sponsor to pay for the trip could n't be found . |
| 27 | Brent magistrates have ruled that the case against Guinness Brewing Worldwide , its technical manager and a consultant working for the company following a fatal accident at Park Royal Brewery last year should be heard at the Crown Court . |
| 28 | Please use them as you think appropriate — as a vein to mime for The Graduate , as props for Reunions , to archive , or junk . |
| 29 | Three initiatives in particular " confirmed " their fears : a seminar series held in 1954 and entitled " Encounters between Poetry and the University " , which were ostensibly purely cultural but always became highly politicized ; a projected " Congress of Young University Writers " , planned for November 1955 by pro-democratic students and progressive Falangists , but banned by the Ministry of the Interior ; and the idea of a " National Congress of Students " , in preparation for which a manifesto calling for the abolition of the SEU monopoly of student representation was circulated in universities throughout Spain in early 1956 . |
| 30 | This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 . |