Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridging precariously above the protruding spike concentrates your mind wonderfully on the old cliche — ‘ not a route for the married man ’ ! |
| 2 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 3 | Stockings that were past repair were used as a base for the new victory roll hairstyle . |
| 4 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 5 | Often local pubs serve as a base for the local community : as Neil Richardson pointed out in CAMRA 's Pub Preservation report of 1980 , ‘ The pub is first and foremost a social centre , the best ever invented … |
| 6 | Plymouth is a base for the Royal Navy , making , repairing and servicing warships and training their crews . |
| 7 | The Convention also includes , in Article 14 , a provision for the compulsory settlement of disputes by arbitration , at the request of either of the parties in dispute . |
| 8 | Richardson , Texas-based Micrografx Inc warns that it has uncovered corporate funds mismanagement in its Japanese subsidiary Micrografx , KK which may result in a loss of $500,000 , and it will likely take a provision for the non-recurring loss in the fourth quarter ; the company further realigned its worldwide operations to respond to changes in software purchasing trends and the costs of marketing products and services and expects to report a loss for the fiscal . |
| 9 | Chief among the reforms was a provision for the direct election of Assembly delegates . |
| 10 | Just as the greater includes the less , so a provision for the marginal case must include the central case . |
| 11 | The last leg of the expedition was proving more than a trial for the young naturalist . |
| 12 | The pupil 's classroom and working groups ( how an individual 's behaviour may have a function for the whole group who may then try and prevent him from changing it ; how groups may be handled so as not to ‘ need ’ one child 's particular behaviour and instead support his progress ) |
| 13 | The ‘ intellect ’ is seen as a function for the direct apprehension of images — to illumine the products of sensory and mental activity , to distinguish , and this is aligned to the thought processes which offer seemingly fragmented views of reality , being centred on objectivity . |
| 14 | Was it not his father who had resolutely argued a case for the necessary acquisition of bourgeois culture in order to succeed ? |
| 15 | Was it not his father who had implicitly argued a case for the moral uprightness of bourgeois culture and bourgeois education ? |
| 16 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 17 | We believe ultimately that there is a case for the further development of budget in this case , and for the schools themselves to decide the levels of erm special needs advisers that they will want . |
| 18 | If ever there was a case for the old adage ‘ horses for courses ’ , ‘ Strip Search ’ was it ! |
| 19 | The council also set aside an initial budget of£250,000 to employ a legal team and prepare a case for the public inquiry . |
| 20 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 21 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 22 | This request for information provides a direction for the conversational fragment , so that we are considering speech with some purpose and not just social chat used to pass the time . |
| 23 | Symbols , according to Gandhi , are a necessity for the religious life of some people but he insists that there is nothing inferior in conceiving of God in personalized terms . |
| 24 | Competent solicitors are a blessing to their clients and a necessity for the economic life of the country . |
| 25 | At universities , where professors of medicine taught botany , physic gardens became a necessity for the practical study of plants . |
| 26 | Modernization of the legal system of Ceylon is a necessity for the smooth running of its commercial and banking machineries . ’ |
| 27 | In London last night , a French Embassy spokesman said : ‘ This is a decision for the British Government . |
| 28 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 29 | A budget for the 1992-93 biennium , providing for expenditure of US$646,000,000 ( representing a cut in real terms of 4.6 per cent ) , was approved without major controversy [ see p. 37054 for 1989 budget disputes ] , and the USA undertook to pay before January 1992 its arrears for 1991 , which amounted to some $34,000,000 out of a total contribution of around $75,000,000 . |
| 30 | The Japanese Diet ( the lower House of Parliament ) approved on April 9 a budget for the fiscal year starting April 1 , 1992 , which envisaged a sharp curtailment of the rate of growth in overall spending . |