Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly shaped tanks may not hold as much water as you may think , which is important when you consider that the stocking level for a mixed fish/invest system is 1″ of fish per six gallons of water . |
| 2 | A Victor V486MX mini-tower has just arrived at Lyndhurst West for a long-term test . |
| 3 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 4 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 5 | His first novel , Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) , sets up a ludicrous adventure plot in which two ‘ heroes ’ attempt to carry the mummified remains of Jesus ( seized from t base for a whole series of chronological divergences and a parallel plot in which a zoo and hot-dog joint , together , are established as the roadside attraction to the title . |
| 6 | ‘ The unedifying scramble for a free judge causes great embarrassment to solicitors vis-a-vis their clients . ’ |
| 7 | That in France , about which most information is available , had at various times responsibility for a wide variety of technical services — couriers , diplomatic bags , codes and , much more significantly , personnel and appointments . |
| 8 | So , after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days , the City would have sold sterling anyway . |
| 9 | And if skills associated with the new technology are specific to a particular occupation rather than to a firm , why should either employer or employee prefer a long-term contract with one employer rather than a consultancy contract for a particular piece of work ? |
| 10 | The selection of a building contract for a particular project is unfortunately often left too late to allow proper consideration of matching the contract to the job . |
| 11 | The UK government has deferred funding support for a major road scheme through the rainforests of the Central African Republic , and is calling instead for a thorough environmental impact assessment . |
| 12 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 13 | Always a man of action , he enrolled at Napier College for a self-learning course and , in his own words , ‘ respectfully departed from insurance and never regretted it . ’ |
| 14 | For both double and single bed welts I prefer to mattress stitch for a perfect finish . |
| 15 | Morrells hopes to hold the price of cask mild for a further 12 months . |
| 16 | By June 1990 , as the result of a campaign launched in May 1989 , a total of some 550 agreements had been reached in the engineerng industry for a phased reduction of the basic working week , generally from 39 to 37 hours . |
| 17 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 18 | This person 's manager , who had profit and loss responsibility for a large division within the company , was warmly and favorably described as ‘ non-political ’ : |
| 19 | Among the projects carried out were the creation of two folk museums , the laying out of public parks and gardens ; a nature trail ; a children 's playground ; the restoration of an old ‘ Norse ’ mill , and the laying down of a car park for a small craft shop . |
| 20 | The 700 acre site , normally home to grazing sheep , had become a giant car park for a motley array of vehicles . |
| 21 | • A 25% reduction for a second week . |
| 22 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 23 | He was concerned that Clift 's continuing sessions with Silverberg were making him worse , and he tried to get Silverberg to commit Clift to Silver Hill Sanatorium for a hopeful cure . |
| 24 | The NSWRU 's decision seems certain to lead to the Australian Rugby Football Union 's support of New Zealand Rugby Football Union 's second application to the International Rugby Football Board for a new interpretation on reinstatement and admissions to the game . |
| 25 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 26 | The cluster in European studies provides a flexible means of introducing a European dimension to the school or college curriculum for a wide ability range . |
| 27 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 28 | Dalglish 's mutli-million pound crusade for a Premier League place could come off the rails if his side do not win . |
| 29 | The alternative ( and now much more common ) free format mode requires separators such as a space or a comma to appear between items of data ; this slows down data entry for a skilled keypuncher but is probably preferable for the non-expert since problems of field misalignment can not occur . |
| 30 | Within Photographic Department , for example , volunteers could assist with the filing of slides and prints , and with data entry for a photographic database . |