Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ . |
| 3 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 4 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 5 | They can be very useful , especially for those with chronic conditions , and for the elderly where a mix of medicines may result in undesirable side-effects . |
| 6 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |
| 7 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |
| 8 | Romany King is five pounds better off than last year for a two and a half length beating and is now ridden by Adrian Maguire , one of the most talented young jockeys on the circuit . |
| 9 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 10 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
| 11 | To begin with it is best to keep the adults for no more than a day , then let them free . |
| 12 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 13 | Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well . |
| 14 | Except that there was no way Third World countries could develop that fast : there was room for no more than a handful of South Koreas or Singapores , ready to beat the West at its own game . |
| 15 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |
| 16 | Reed was built on an overgenerous scale , bull-necked and bulging in his grey pinstripe ; Wycliffe , slight of build , and rather pale , was more likely to be taken for an academic than a policeman ; hard to believe that he had served a tough apprenticeship on the beat in a Midland city . |