Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 2 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
| 3 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 4 | For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years . |
| 5 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 6 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 7 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 8 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 9 | We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East , and our two movements complement each other . ’ |
| 10 | The board of inquiry called yesterday for a full and open judicial inquiry into the alleged activities of the death squad , noting that the present McNally investigation was an inter-departmental inquiry behind closed doors . |
| 11 | The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone . |
| 12 | My family 's home for a hundred and sixty years . |
| 13 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 14 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 15 | but er , as I say I ca n't remember precisely , I just scanned it and give it to Mick who was out the door like , Lesley put her house up for a hundred and twenty six erm , one how much is it ? |
| 16 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 17 | Well think , why pay out for a hundred and forty pounds for a suit , when you gon na wear it again ? |
| 18 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 19 | Wetherall was up at one point and had two shots blocked before coming back for a third and putting the ball in the net . |
| 20 | Your old man here has brought me all the way up here for a complete and utter waste of time |
| 21 | In the final analysis , it may be that national states and their control agencies are relatively autonomous of a particular social class , and that in that sense could , under the right circumstances , become an instrument , at least for a specific and limited objective , of any particular class or alliance of classes or pressure groups . |
| 22 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 23 | Lot number seventy one Lot number seventy one seventy one there 's the stele showing there 's the carving showing there for a hundred and fifty pounds , at one fifty , one sixty , one seventy , at one hundred and seventy pounds , at one eighty offered , one ninety , two hundred now two hundred is bid and selling for two hundred , you all done ? |
| 24 | And the provision for the county is well over the allocations in the structure plan already , but the County Council , sent observations to the District Council to say , We 're not going to object to this particular er windfall site coming forward for a hundred and sixty houses , because it 's recycling existing urban land , and in that case we can set the policy to one side . |
| 25 | In 1960 a major proposal was put forward for a British and Commonwealth programme by a consortium of Britain 's main aerospace and electronics companies — called the British Space Development Company ( BSDC ) . |
| 26 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |