Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 3 | We are grateful to Hazel Fox , Harriet Dawes , Judith Manches , Judith Bridge , Vicky Andrew , Ann Upton , Elizabeth Potter , Nadja Tollemache and Tracy Minns for gifts of money , to Katrina Crossley for a valuable contact with the publisher Butterworths , and to the newly-formed Somerville Lawyers ' Group for the promise of continuing support . |
| 4 | On arrival transfer to the Luxor Hilton for a two night stay . |
| 5 | Fly to Luxor where you will be met and transferred to the Luxor Hilton for a four night stay . |
| 6 | Southall 's departure forced Kendall to take off winger Robert Warzycha and send on gutsy substitute Australian keeper Jason Kearton for a dazzling debut — never mind the scoreline . |
| 7 | A RED DEVIL MARK Hughes is sent off by Danish referee Jan Dangaard for a second bookable offence long before Manchester United 's mission to Moscow ends in bitter defeat . |
| 8 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 9 | Saints boss Ian Branfoot made it a double raid on London when he also signed Chelsea 's Dutch defender Ken Monkou for a similar figure . |
| 10 | Complementing the Dieppe exhibition at the Museum he joins folk/rock guitarist and composer Andy Roberts for a modern celebration of Normandy . |
| 11 | Radio Ulster 's popular lunchtime topical affairs programme invites listeners to join regular armchair commentators and DAVID DUNSEITH for a live show in the Elmwood Hall . |
| 12 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 13 | In the 1590s it appeared that there were already two reversioners to the post of Clerk to the Privy Seal , when a request came from Edward Reynolds for a third . |
| 14 | He was dropped from the side that shut out City 's new goal-king Andy Cole for a well-earned away point from old boss Denis Smith . |
| 15 | The 42-year-old multi-millionaire was snapped — dressed as an allegory of flight — on his private island of Necker in the British Virgin Islands for a world-wide advertising campaign due to be launched next month . |
| 16 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 17 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 18 | Recently , local-government chiefs were invited to Downing Street for an amiable if unfocused chat . |
| 19 | The chaos continued as they reversed the Queen 's Rolls Royce for a quick departure . |
| 20 | Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr sold an unusual interior scene , ‘ Le couronnement de la rosière ’ by the rarely found seventeenth-century French artist Jean Michelin for a mere FFr125,000 ( £12,700 ; $22,300 ) . |
| 21 | Accidentally or not , The Orb could be the post-modern Punk Floyd for a new millennium . |
| 22 | In passing the bill Bourassa successfully resisted pressure from the separatist Parti Quebecois for an immediate referendum to capitalize on the post-Meech Lake disenchantment felt by many francophone Quebeckers towards anglophone Canada . |
| 23 | Software — Too vast a selection to mention here , ROMs , RAMs , disks and more , just call Yamaha Pro-Music for a free copy of ‘ Sound Explosion ’ , our software and book catalogue . |
| 24 | If councillors recommend development , it will have to go to Welsh Secretary David Hunt for a final decision . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , here she is again a vociferous pain to the last in a gripping production by Charlotta Martinus for a new and enterprising group called Confederate Spirits in a pub-theatre in North London , the Duke of Cambridge . |
| 26 | AFTER a three-year break , WGOL are pleased to welcome Amerada Hess for a two-exploration well programme being run from Yarmouth . |
| 27 | A number of friends came to the Addison-Ross Gallery in Eaton Terrace for a Private View of Judith Countess Bathurst 's first London exhibition of water colours . |
| 28 | She cherished a forlorn hope that he would curse Malachi Drennan for a damned lecher and order him and Father Devlin from the house . |
| 29 | Now examine the effect of an increase in T KX for a given level of distortion . |
| 30 | And the big Aucklander really came into his own in the second half after the 50th-minute dismissal of Warrington prop Neil Harmon for a high tackle on Oldham hooker Richard Pachnuik . |