Example sentences of "[noun] for a [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The range consists of 17 items with prices starting from £1 for a guest soap up to £9.95 for a pair of luxury coathangers . |
2 | Prices range from £9.95 for a three-metre black , blue or red cable up to £13.95 for a 5 metre orange or green version , £15.95 for a 5m translucent pink jobbie and £17.95 for a 5m toaster-type . |
3 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
4 | Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side . |
5 | Britain 's IT firms , in company with any others that use electronic equipment , rely on universities and other institutions for a supply of skilled people . |
6 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
7 | YAKOVLEV Design Bureau ( OKB ) are creating a number of Yak-3 replicas for an order from the USA , confirms Chief Designer , Sergey Yakovlev . |
8 | Round was signed from St Helens for a club record of £65,000 in the summer of 1987 but he damaged a knee in his only game this season — at Carlisle in October — and needed a cartilage operation . |
9 | A businessman and a man who puts up ramps for a living ? |
10 | Two people are awaiting trial in connection with the attack , but 5 others , including Howard Banton , chief clerk for a firm of solicitors in the town , have appeared in court at Cheltenham , accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by plotting to persuade a witness to withdraw a statement . |
11 | His father started as an accounts clerk for a road haulier ; his mother was a shop manager . |
12 | They live in Langford Village , two miles from Bicester in Oxfordshire Barbara works as a clerk for a removal company , Joelle is a care assisstant at a home for the disabled , while Bobby is still at school . |
13 | Sidney Lee in his life of Shakespeare , 1908 edition , attributes his accurate use of legal terms to observation of his father 's legal battles and early association with members of the Inns of Court and there is also a suggestion that on his arrival in London he may have been employed as a clerk for a lawyer . |
14 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
15 | ‘ I talked to a couple from Stirling for a while — Mr and Mrs Maclean . |
16 | And with Christmas coming , they 're asking anyone who 's thinking of giving a bike for a present , to think of giving the right clothing as well . |
17 | When I first came to the region I had thoughts of using a bike for a lot of short travelling . |
18 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
19 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
20 | In GEC 's Patent , the employer had obtained patent protection for a cockpit display unit which had been invented by an employee for use in military aircraft . |
21 | Dage has introduced an improved version of its disposable user comfort and increased protective coverall , offering enhanced protection for a variety of industrial and commercial applications . |
22 | ‘ Designer ’ black became the epitome of good taste : a defence against true style and protection for a multitude of sins . |
23 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
24 | Until the 1988 Act , all a person had to do to gain copyright protection for a design was to make a drawing of the design in such a way that the design could be recognized from the drawing ( as long as the design did not relate to a spare part ) . |
25 | The employer who has obtained patent protection for an invention which is undergoing refinement may agree to supply customers with one of his own non patented substitute products until the development work has reached its conclusion . |
26 | In the United Kingdom , the question of copyright protection for an instruction set was considered in Microsense Systems Ltd. v Control Systems Technology Ltd. ( 1991 ) . |
27 | A ‘ tougher ‘ form of protection for an area containing many buildings of historic interest , perhaps with particular features typical of the locality , comes when a local authority ( with confirmation from the Department of the Environment ) makes an Article 4 Direction . |
28 | Damon was a nineteen-year-old student from California who was staying with Bodo and Liese for a month . |
29 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
30 | The old lady clutched at her chest for a moment , and Lina took a step forward , but Mrs Richards waved her away . |