Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 2 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 3 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 4 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 5 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 6 | Dr Brice Pitt comments in Making the Most of Middle Age : ‘ So much publicity is now given to the art of making love , what men and women need from each other , and how to please your partner , that there is little excuse for a dull , unimaginative sex life even in the supposedly stolid middle-aged . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You want to take that brute for a walk ? ’ |
| 8 | Trade in that direction for a parish priest is fairly brisk , arrangements for christenings , funerals , marriages , that sort of thing , ’ Tallboy said offhandedly , as though he himself regularly joined couples in wedlock . |
| 9 | I think there is , there is an attempt to move in that direction for a set of ideological reasons . |
| 10 | Throughout England there are projects nationwide , they need practical support , counselling , and specialist treatment , but above all there are sixteen thousand children a year that hope for a better future . |
| 11 | One effect of the early deadline was that some teachers claimed that their reports had to be rushed and that there was little opportunity for a considered appraisal : |
| 12 | I referred sir at the beginning to er the limited experience I 've had in Nottinghamshire where erm a criteria based policy was put into a structure plan erm for er in that case for a prestige business development I think is what they call it , prestige business park , that was a criteria based policy as a way of containing , stopping this strategic issue becoming a Trojan horse for lots of other things . |
| 13 | Employees who are redeployed to posts outwith their recognised employment field will be given priority consideration for any subsequent vacancy which arises in that field for a period of one year following the date of redeployment . |
| 14 | There is little support for a pact with the Ulster Unionist MPs . |
| 15 | Since there is little support for a temporary return to a Premier Division of 16 — this arrangement , of course , would deny the city clubs income generated by extra matches against Rangers and Celtic — a league set-up of 14-12-12 is on the cards for 1993-94 . |
| 16 | But the Law Lords , applying European law , ruled that liability for a dismissal by a seller before a business transfer passes to the purchaser if the employee has been unfairly dismissed for a reason connected with the transfer . |
| 17 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 18 | We 've still got that tape for a couple of a weeks . |
| 19 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 20 | On the road , the GTi costs £10,903 — add about 300 to that figure for a radio cassette and electric front windows . |
| 21 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 22 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 23 | Let us not shatter that illusion for a week or so . |
| 24 | Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity , resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day . |
| 25 | However during 1960–3 there was some support for a British Commonwealth non-military space programme . |
| 26 | She boiled some milk for a cup of cocoa , resolving to steer clear of the brandy and hot milk : all that talk of pookas in the car had made her sound neurotic ! |
| 27 | However we 're beginning to make some progress and we 're making some progress for a number of reasons . |
| 28 | To recoup her strength and escape all this … this horror for a while . |
| 29 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 30 | It has recently been recognised that there have been considerable liquidity problems both before and after Big Bang for some of the smaller companies listed on the ISE , prompting some calls for a two-tier market . |