Example sentences of "[noun] for a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sandwich was a good preparation for an evening 's drinking as food , especially things rich in proteins and fats , such as cheese , eggs , milk , yoghurt and meat , slow down the effect of alcohol and help prevent an upset stomach . |
| 2 | A maximum of £3,300 for a perimeter board facing the television cameras and £2,600 for a season 's worth of full-page advertisements in the match-day programme . |
| 3 | Basil 's Notes for a Teachers ' In-Service Course at Hoyland Teachers ' Centre February 1953 |
| 4 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 5 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
| 6 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 7 | Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year . |
| 8 | The Labour Party unveiled plans for a women 's ministry , which would have a seat in the cabinet . |
| 9 | John Major juggled a pledge to privatise the rail and coal industries with plans for a citizens ' charter to guarantee public services . |
| 10 | His grand plans for a hero 's welcome disintegrated into a mass of fears over how the High Command would view this night . |
| 11 | There are distant plans for a Burke 's range of repro furniture and wallpaper . |
| 12 | Through this contact with Australia the nature of the guerrilla operations changed to a role foreseen by Collin Gubbins and Major Holland in 1938 : acting in concert with the plans for an army 's main campaign . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's pathetic payment for a man 's life . |
| 14 | One of the appendices to the guidance note is a DSS paper on possible ways to harmonise the NIC and PAYE treatment of items such as : reasonable travel/subsistence payments made by an employer when public transport is disrupted ; payment for an employee 's late night journeys from work to home ( subject to certain conditions ) ; home leave expenses for employees and their families where the employee is employed abroad ; telephone expenses ; motor mileage allowances ; and incentive award schemes . |
| 15 | Whatever happens , he concluded , ‘ we are surely about to witness the most momentous struggle for a country 's conscience that modern Africa has ever known . ’ |
| 16 | Forced back on a policy of self help , the RCM soon discovered that the public responded best when appeals were made of behalf of specific projects — £40 to support one boy in a course of agricultural training , say , or £60 for a year 's schooling . |
| 17 | After four weeks of aerobic workouts , you have built the foundations for a lifetime 's health and fitness . |
| 18 | They can charge over three hundred pounds an hour for a partner 's services , but that 's increasingly subject to negotiation . |
| 19 | At the time of that announcement , the Secretary of State also made clear his support for a King 's Cross terminal , which he described as ’ essential not only to meet the need of the travellers within London , but also crucial to serve the requirements of those who live elsewhere in Britain ’ . |
| 20 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 21 | A president 's support for a legislator 's pet bill may be vital to its passage . |
| 22 | A new telephone hotline will be established by York City Council to deal with parking problems in the Barbican area under new revised proposals for a residents ' parking scheme . |
| 23 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
| 24 | Not all religious sites were so openly associated with water , however , despite its popularity in Celtic theology , but caution is necessary when trying to identify religion as the primary function for a settlement 's foundation and continued existence , as so many small towns possessed at least one temple . |
| 25 | Children need someone unconditionally and permanently committed to them , and it is difficult to see why a parent who takes no responsibility for a child 's care has a right to prevent someone else from doing so . |
| 26 | Staff said that they felt more inclined to offer services if they were not assuming sole responsibility for an individual 's welfare but could ‘ share the burden ’ . |
| 27 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 28 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 29 | Make sure you have sufficient money for a month 's deposit when you begin your tour of inspection . |
| 30 | He turned up at the game with his head shaven , Gazza style , to raise money for a children 's cancer charity as part of Friday 's Comic Relief day . |