Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other market roles invariably involve a search for the best exchange opportunities for translating an initially owned asset into something more eagerly desired . |
| 2 | RETIRED Gordon Turner has launched a search for the best pal he has n't seen in 40 years . |
| 3 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
| 4 | I notice the poster on the wall promising a prize for the best school uniform on display , and I question Mick the proprietor as to who won . |
| 5 | For this give a prize for the best creation . |
| 6 | There 's a prize for the best letter each month . |
| 7 | There is to be a fancy-dress parade , with a bicycle as a prize for the best entry , so see if you can think of a good idea for a character . ’ |
| 8 | Their motives tend , I suspect , to be a mixture of concern for their own and their families ' future , concern for countries and people who are less well-off than they are and a sympathetic response based on a wish for the better treatment of the animal world . |
| 9 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 10 | The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written . |
| 11 | Extensive experience at interviewing can help the manager develop a sense for the good candidate but the danger is that the interviewer finds people whom he/she regards as sympathetic and compatible . |
| 12 | These people came in yesterday , he told me , who were judging a competition for the best window displays in the Kings Road . |
| 13 | But first there must be an architectural competition , and before that , a competition for the best idea for a competition ; pending , of course , the decision as to whether the monument will be built . |
| 14 | There 's going to be a competition for the best alternative verse I think . |
| 15 | There 's a competition for the best photograph |
| 16 | There 's the holiday of a lifetime for the best tip of the year |