Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 2 | Oh I do n't mind paying you , it 'd cost me that for a bloody taxi . |
| 3 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 4 | The library staff can manage on their own for a little while , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 5 | Leaving his wife to clear up all the dishes , Mr Jones went to get himself ready for a good game of cards with his friends from work . |
| 6 | ‘ I know I should n't say anything , but I 've known you both for a long time , and your mother spoiled Dana rotten . |
| 7 | ‘ Is she ready for a public performance ? ’ |
| 8 | She had kept everyone awake for a whole night and Oz had cried into his pillow . |
| 9 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 10 | Everything necessary for a fabulous holiday . |
| 11 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 12 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 13 | A ramp that made it possible for a disabled woman to get in and out of her home has been demolished by the local council . |
| 14 | By making it possible for a vivid and urgent desire for power to exist alongside a consciousness of being the legitimate and predestined possessor of it , they kept the edge on the governing classes . |
| 15 | One starts from the question of mind and behaviour and asks : ‘ How is it possible for a physical system , the brain , to produce this ? ’ |
| 16 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 17 | How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ? |
| 18 | We have made it clear for a long period that we believe that devolution or independence would damage very severely the degree of inward investment into Scotland and the degree of self-generating investment within Scotland as well . |
| 19 | Once I had the basic colours put in I would then sometimes , for added intensity , dip the point of a certain colour into the water and apply it direct for a small intense spot of pigment . |
| 20 | This does not make it impossible for a domestic market to be dominated and then abused , but it is far less likely to happen . |
| 21 | Amendment No. 3 would make it impossible for a Scottish Bus Group subsidiary to be resold within five years without the consent of its employees . |
| 22 | It moves through your applications at a faster-than-average 25 MHz , making it ideal for a wide variety of heavy number-crunching , CAD and DTP applications . |
| 23 | He was like just being an adviser , he was n't like trying to design it , and I looked at it all for a long time and I said Bembo , which I had never heard of . |
| 24 | Using Wella 's High Hair Form & Finish Spray for extra hold , he pinned the hair and brushed it flat for a sophisticated Sixties style . |
| 25 | ‘ British publishers have had it good for a long time . |
| 26 | This is his first for a new company — he left Motown after 30 years , following Berry Gordy 's own departure — and the tracks have a fresh , live feel to them . |
| 27 | ‘ Here and Now ’ ( ) , his Blue Note release from the autumn of last year , is his first for a major label , although ‘ new ’ he is not : Keezer was the last occupant of the Jazz Messengers ' piano stool at the time of Art Blakey 's untimely death last year . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the inclusion of these issues may make it difficult for a dieting lay-reader . |
| 29 | The study is a small-scale exploratory study which will involve intensive interviews with 54 married women whose children are old enough not to require that degree of care and attention which makes it difficult for a married woman to take up full-time employment . |
| 30 | Equally importantly , these code provisions are designed to make it difficult for a detained person to make unfounded allegations against the police which might otherwise appear credible . |