Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 In between a full time job , writing articles , trying to write a book and moving house , I was asked to write a special for this Christmas edition based on the assembly of a ‘ dream tank .
2 Areas which will be in contact with the cove members should be scratched to provide a key for the Gyproc cove adhesive , then brush away any dust and loose particles .
3 CRICKET fanatic Fred Smith died trying to smash a six for victory off the last ball of a match .
4 Just about a year ago Cicely and Dick Harris made their third trip to Malta ; this time to find a flat for rent on a permanent basis , enabling them to spend the Winter months there each year .
5 Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are .
6 It took a Maori around four weeks to extract a blank for an adze-blade from a pebble of nephrite and another six to shape it ( fig. 12 ) .
7 The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic .
8 ‘ Now I am trying to buy a flat for Katya there .
9 The 31-year-old Ulsterman had another fine run of birdies on the new course to record a 66 for a remarkable 16-under-par , two-round total of 128 .
10 However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery .
11 ‘ Tom 's a good fellow , if unpredictable and inclined not to give a damn for anyone else .
12 There are spaces in the console for a radio and loudspeaker … and a non-locking glovebox on the transmission tunnel , with a padded top to form an armrest for driver or passenger .
13 And an arrangement to build a sled for the race held in Aviemore each year .
14 The two longer serving assistant housekeepers are familiar with her ways , but she has found it difficult to keep a third for any length of time , and the present incumbent appears sullen and resentful .
15 Wolf 's animals look right even in these scenes where the temptation to make them anthropomorphic is great , because the picture might be taken to have a moral for human beings .
16 Are there any rules for writing poetry in the sense that does it have to rhyme , does it have to have a rhythm , does it have to have a particular for to be recognised and accepted as a piece of poetry as opposed , perhaps , to a piece of prose ?
17 ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’
18 It was n't as if she even liked this man enough to care a damn for his opinion of her !
19 Under his successors , it was also exploited as a source of revenue by allowing men to pay a fine for exemption .
20 Once on the first aerodrome , Brueckner stopped and made some excuse about engine problems , saying that he had to try to get a key for the toolbox .
21 ‘ I 'm much too hard to want a woolly for myself , ’ he said , ‘ but I would n't say no to an overcoat or two ! ’
22 The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff .
23 But I might be ready to sign a 23-year-old for such an investment .
24 If he thought instant bankruptcy would result from such disclosures , he must be no less earnest to become a bankrupt for the just advantage of his creditors than he would have been resolute not to fail by collusion for the purpose of defrauding them .
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