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 | ‘ Now I am trying to buy a flat for Katya there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom 's a good fellow , if unpredictable and inclined not to give a damn for anyone else . |
| 11 | And an arrangement to build a sled for the race held in Aviemore each year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 16 | It was n't as if she even liked this man enough to care a damn for his opinion of her ! |
| 17 | Under his successors , it was also exploited as a source of revenue by allowing men to pay a fine for exemption . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But I might be ready to sign a 23-year-old for such an investment . |
| 22 | 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 . |