Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
2 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
3 | Highlights will include an istoriato plate depicting the ‘ Sack of Rome ’ , made in Urbino between 1527 and 1530 by Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo ( est. $100,000–125,000 ; £62,500–78,125 ) , an armorial istoriato charger illustrating ‘ Orpheus charming the animals ’ of around 1520 ( est. $80,000–100,000 ; £50,000–62,500 ) and a tondino made for the Vitelli family of Città di Castello around 1530 ( est. $50,000–60,000 ; £31,250–37,500 ) . |
4 | Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time . |
5 | Javed Miandad 's XI was unchanged , but England had a side tailored for the imagined needs of Leeds , Russell , Malcolm and Salisbury making way for Ramprakash , Pringle and Mallender , with Newport ( less than full fit ) and Childs left out of the squad of 13 . |
6 | In Kaszubia , Mazowia and Silesia the peasants referred to themselves as Kaszuby , Mazury and Slęzaki rather than as Poles : Polak was a term reserved for the Polish nobility . |
7 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
8 | I 've got a piece to write for the Overseas Service . |
9 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
10 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
11 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
12 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
13 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
14 | It 's a girl looking for the middle son , Paul . |
15 | I suspect that we will find that John Major is both pro-active and reaction , because in the next few months erm up to some time before June nineteen ninety two , there has to be a manifesto produced for the next election , and I think it 's in that you will probably see the pro-active side of John Major and his colleagues . |
16 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
17 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
18 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
19 | Around this time , Bruckner likened himself to a watchdog that had slipped its chain ; and four-square as much of the Study Symphony is , it conveys just that sense of a barely-checked yearning for the epic symphonic tussles that Bruckner seems to have been fated to undertake . |
20 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
21 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
22 | ‘ Actually it 's a tax dodge for the Prime Minister , ’ Scott said smugly . |
23 | Nor was a desire to retaliate for the Triple Intervention of 1895 totally absent . |
24 | When a vacancy occurs for the top post in a department , the tradition is for the vacancy to be discussed by the head of the civil service with the secretary of state . |
25 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
26 | I have a room booked for the thirtieth of July and I 'd like a word with the manager . |
27 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
28 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
29 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
30 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |