Example sentences of "a [noun] for the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main focus of the statement was on the need to guarantee peace through enhanced regional economic integration in order to achieve " a process at the national and regional level which permits an accelerated reconstruction and transformation of production and technology of the Central American countries as a base for the efficient and dynamic insertion of the region into the world market " . |
| 2 | ‘ The Women 's Group provided a special lunch for the elderly and established a club for the elderly and the unemployed in the church hall . ’ |
| 3 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 4 | Prague School structuralism is a programme for the precise and systematic explanation of the aesthetic effect of a text in its totality . |
| 5 | The acquisition of a car for the private and business use of a director was not considered by both members of the Court of Appeal ( Neill and Dillon LJJ ) to be an integral part of the company 's business . |
| 6 | The last year of Ayliffe 's Presidency witnessed the fulfilment of one of the BDDA 's earliest dreams and objectives : the purchase of a fine house and grounds for conversion into a Home for the Aged and Infirm Deaf and Dumb . |
| 7 | In one study a random group of residents in a home for the elderly and infirm were given a house plant to own and look after . |
| 8 | If none of these ideas is possible , would she be willing to spend a few weeks each year in a home for the elderly or , if she is infirm , in a nursing home or a local National Health Service hospital ? |
| 9 | So then when I got back to erm er St Giles erm I was there for a month and then I went into a home for the blind and handicapped |
| 10 | This is what keeps open a breathing-space for the spiritual and moral dimensions to the investigation of truth in a world whose natural bent is to exclude it . |
| 11 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 12 | There is a trap for the unwary where Newco is a close company and lends money to the trustees of an employee trust which holds shares in Newco , for example where funding is required to enable the trust to acquire further Newco shares . |
| 13 | I thought it was a place for the aged and moribund — St Cemetery's-on-Sea ! ’ |
| 14 | But when Hannah was a girl , chapel was a place for the young and energetic , for people who wanted their voices to be heard . |
| 15 | It 's a well-known therapy in places like mental hospitals and prisons and has a place for the elderly as well . |
| 16 | Repairing gutters is not a job for the fainthearted since it involves working up a ladder for quite a long time . |
| 17 | This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX . |
| 18 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 19 | They explored the drawing-room next — or perhaps that is too formal a name for the large and very cheerful room on the other side of the hall . |
| 20 | It is certainly not a tree for the impatient or faint-hearted gardener . |
| 21 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |
| 22 | In the end , West Germany , constitutionally prevented from deploying its forces outside Europe , agreed to provide additional naval cover in the West European arena as a replacement for the British and French ships sent to patrol in the Persian Gulf . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The EEC makes four programmes a week for the national and provincial networks . |
| 25 | A quantitative analysis of these alternants , taken from 30 one-hour interviews of 15 men and 15 women , had revealed a preference for the indicative and conditional forms in lower-status groups and by all speakers in less careful styles . |
| 26 | Not a city for the lily-livered or faint-hearted . |
| 27 | Determined to make the house a Mecca for the rich and famous , he decorated it elaborately and expensively . |
| 28 | It was like a drain where the dregs and filth exuded from all the other prisons in the land had been gathered together ; the human refuse brushed aside and locked up in an institution that was a dustbin for the unwanted and unmanageable . |
| 29 | It would be insipid to say this book loves football , it does n't , it lusts after it with a taste for the perverse and the painful . |
| 30 | For those with a taste for the unusual and exotic , Pavilions in Peril remains not only an engaging armchair read , but an explorer 's guide to a forgotten world of follies and garden temples . |