Example sentences of "for a [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking for a biscuit after a meal will be acceptable but not before . |
| 2 | To be sure , Pamela is a better companion for a lady than a monkey or a harlequin . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S third-biggest clearing bank looks fit more for a wake than a wedding . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose it 's better for a girl than a boy , ’ said Ken doubtfully , ‘ but all the same you should have asked me . ’ |
| 5 | It 's just been announced that three Oxford University students have been suspended for a year after a friend died at a drink and drugs party . |
| 6 | The six-month-old animal fell through a hole less than two feet wide in a field at Great Burdon , Darlington and was imprisoned 12ft underground in a narrow chamber for a day until a man walking his dogs discovered her and called the RSPCA . |
| 7 | She was imprisoned 12 feet underground in a narrow chamber for a day until a man walking his dogs discovered her and called the RSPCA . |
| 8 | A sister with a part-time job looks more available to care for a parent than a brother who works full-time . |
| 9 | He could get up to all sorts of tricks and I was told that when another one of the lads at the same farm applied for a job as a coachman , Grandad gave him a reference . |
| 10 | In its Philip Morris decision in November 1987 , the Court held that all agreements for a merger where a cartel situation already existed , or might be created by the merger , were exposed to Article 85 . |
| 11 | The Crumps ' boat was a splendid , new affair , more fitted for a picnic than a fishing expedition , unusually comfortable and a pleasure to handle . |
| 12 | I ca n't see the point in going for a walk unless a chop lies at the end of it . ’ |
| 13 | I think it 's worse for a woman than a man . |
| 14 | What she is really saying , after all this time , is that it is more important for a woman than a man to look good . |
| 15 | The abbey of Otley on Otmoor was abandoned after three years , in 1141 , as ‘ fitter for an ark than a monastery ’ . |
| 16 | He had even spoken — interminably — at the famous meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , held at Oxford in 1860 , when Huxley allegedly scored his victory over Bishop Wilberforce with the retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a man who used his privileged position to pronounce on matters he knew nothing about . |
| 17 | Huxley 's retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop — or words to that effect — has come to symbolize not merely the conflict between Darwinism and the Bible but the victory of science over religion . |
| 18 | We shall start , in Chapter 3 , with the hunt for an offender after a sex crime has been reported to the police . |