Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 32 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
| 33 | As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says . |
| 34 | I used to buy a half a pound for 400 pesos and make thousands of papelitas to sell at 50 centavos . |
| 35 | Another decided that tiv must mean ‘ just a tiny bit ’ and so added a teaspoon of water , compared to half a glass for more , and so on ( Clark , unpublished data ) . |
| 36 | That was a timber prop and a timber half a prop for a bar to carry the roof . |
| 37 | If the software writers arranged that the start of the track has to be detected before the search begins , this becomes a full revolution ; this is made up of half a track to locate the start , and half a track for the search . |
| 38 | And , under the hedge , a dunnock : ‘ The tame hedge-sparrow in its russet dress/ is half a robin for its gentle ways . ’ |
| 39 | Elsewhere in a key speech , Mr Hurd said the storm which blew through Britain 's institutions last year , ‘ uprooting some and damaging others ’ , has now blown itself out , leaving 1993 a year for ‘ recovery and replanting ’ . |
| 40 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 41 | If you 've smoked 30 a day for 20 years , is it worth giving up ? |
| 42 | The same fragility can be heard in the six songs that complete this issue , and she seems too light a voice for either the humouristic pomp of the Ballade des gros Dindons , or the lovely lyricism of Chanson pour Jeanne and L'île heureuse . |
| 43 | ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’ |
| 44 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 45 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 46 | On Nov. 22 a spokesman for the exiled Iraqi New Ummah Party claimed that he had been executed along with seven other officers for having attempted to depose Saddam Hussein . |
| 47 | ‘ I half-killed a man for sayin' that once tae me , ’ replied Tam , abashed . |
| 48 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 49 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 50 | Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 51 | The periodic swarming mass of adults provides such a surfeit for predators that the majority of the cicadas survive to lay eggs . |
| 52 | Unfortunately there is no semantic theory currently available that is able to work in such a way for a broad coverage of English . |
| 53 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 54 | He claims he had to develop such a style for his latest role , as the couch potato host of TV Hell , last month 's one-night-stand featuring some of the classically bad moments of popular television . |
| 55 | Such a requirement for express agreement of admissions policy is difficult to reconcile with the more limited requirement that governors should simply ‘ consult ’ the local education authority which was introduced for the first time by section 33 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 56 | A child may appear before a hearing for reasons other than offences ; and he will have a disposal tailored to his needs for care rather than to the seriousness of the offence ; and a child may not only be put under a supervision requirement for reasons other than an offence , but he may remain under such a requirement for a period of years for reasons completely unconnected with breaches of the criminal law . |
| 57 | The Ixmarites would not tolerate such a man for long , I am sure . ’ |
| 58 | She tried to imagine such a life for herself , but could not . |
| 59 | Only an eccentric would consider spending £1,000 on such a course for fun , and the company would probably refuse to accept such a trainee . |
| 60 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |