Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 2 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 3 | but fifty per cent of the people who said they were coming did n't turn up and most of them did n't phone in or anything like that which was a little bit of an upset for the host erm and consequently there was a bit put in |
| 4 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 6 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
| 7 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 8 | The least fertile part of the heath was left as a common for the poor to collect firing from . |
| 9 | It was in this late period , between 1380 and 1200 BC , that the cave cult really came into its own , acting as a night-safe for the whole fund of Minoan religious beliefs . |
| 10 | Masters champion Couples coasted to a 66 while Love , the US No 2 , chipped in with a 68 for the Americans to set the first round pace with a combined 10 under par total of 134 . |
| 11 | Preferably use yellow l.e.d.s for pitch positions D1 to D8 , with a green for the batsman 's position ( D9 ) and red for the wicked ( D10 ) . |
| 12 | He was immediately roped in as an extra for the night . |
| 13 | However , it seems clear that the custom is a relic of pre-Christian sun worship , a celebration of the fact of the sun reaching its Zenith and an offering as an earnest for the promise of a good harvest . |
| 14 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 15 | They are in a flat for the homeless . |
| 16 | And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . |
| 17 | The US Treasury , in a brief for the president on 26 June 1965 , darkly concluded that Britain required an austerity programme of almost wartime stringency . |
| 18 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 19 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 20 | We realized that we needed a letting agent who would not only take the bookings but generally oversee the properties , plus a cleaner for the days on which they changed hands . |
| 21 | These are maps showing lines of equal rates of subsidence , though one has to make the assumption that depth of subsidence equals thickness of sediment multiplied by a constant for the type of sediment involved ( to allow for differential compaction ) . |
| 22 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |