Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 2 | For a schooled child the probability was increased threefold ; for an unschooled child , it was increased sixfold ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | For a split second the friendliness disappeared from Marianne 's eyes to be replaced by a calculating glint . |
| 4 | For a split second the man on the sofa glanced away , towards the noise . |
| 5 | Then he sells off ‘ time shares ’ , which is the right to occupy a unit for a fixed period every year . |
| 6 | Assuming that dl → 0 and noting that for a closed contour the line integral of the electric field vanishes we get |
| 7 | For a limited time the Abbey National is offering 8.65 per cent — 9.4 per cent APR — fixed until the year 2000 . |
| 8 | And for a loving mother the child would have Katelina , who would cherish him now , and make what she could of her marriage , for the sake of what she had found in Kalopetra . |
| 9 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 10 | To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first . |
| 11 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 12 | Indeed , for a long while the possession of a domestic clock or a watch tended to be restricted to the wealthy and was looked upon more as a sign of affluence than as a social necessity . |
| 13 | For a long while the bell rang and Harriet felt the sense of loneliness deepen . |
| 14 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 15 | This , the kylix par excellence , remains for a long time a vehicle for some of the finest vase-drawing , in the ton do and in many figured compositions between the handles . |
| 16 | For a long time the boy maintained a defiant silence and did n't look at his father . |
| 17 | Signora Silvana Ciammarughi , the owner and creator of this unique establishment , nursed for a long time the dream of acquiring some old house of character , converting it and running it as a hotel . |
| 18 | For a long time the building was attributed to Inigo Jones , something people much enjoy doing . |
| 19 | For a long time the type remained quite insignificant , but in recent years the increasing attention has added many new varieties , and a few miniature standards are also now available . |
| 20 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 21 | For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers . |
| 22 | For a long time the sound of the men chopping wood stayed with us . |
| 23 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 24 | For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community . |
| 25 | For a long time the hardware available for handwriting recognition was such that the input would take place on a graphics tablet , while the visual feedback appeared on a monitor screen . |
| 26 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 27 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 28 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
| 29 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 30 | For a long time the lawyer called almost every day . |