Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good chance of exciting winds and a wide range of dinghies , catamarans and windsurfers make this a paradise for more experienced sailors , while there 's a sheltered corner and a shallow sandy beach for families with younger children . |
| 2 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 3 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 4 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 5 | Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle ! |
| 6 | I do not consider that a ground for complaint . |
| 7 | Finally , the gap between coverage of the Conservative and Labour Parties widens as the ladder of parliamentary status is ascended , being quite marked at the Prime Minister/Leader of the Opposition level ; Blumler found this a cause for some concern . |
| 8 | ‘ I could not possibly consider such a commission for less than five hundred roubles . ’ |
| 9 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
| 10 | The framework knitters enjoyed such a time between 1755 and 1785 , continuing to some extent to 1804 , and William Radcliffe described such an age for cotton hand-loom weavers from 1788 to 1803 . |
| 11 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
| 12 | He has such a capacity for unreflecting cruelty now . |
| 13 | Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally , he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic |
| 14 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 15 | You can not want such a person for a wife , and I certainly do not want a husband who thinks that of me — even before marriage . ’ |
| 16 | She looked up at him and said sulkily : ‘ Wotcha wan na make such a mess for ? ’ |
| 17 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 18 | The UK government was also thought to be contemplating using such a camp for the screening of possible future refugees to reduce the flow into Hong Kong . |
| 19 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 20 | You can follow this treatment with a face-pack , or wait half an hour for your skin to settle down and apply your usual moisturiser . |
| 21 | Biographers , notably A J Lubin , have suggested motives which may have prompted him to choose such a woman for a partner . |
| 22 | Typical of many such letters sent to the Laird of Grant was one written by Lord Kinnoull in 1780 seeking such a bursary for John Duff , a son of the minister of Tippermuir . |
| 23 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 24 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 25 | In May 1227 he granted such a charter for the greater part of Berkshire , and in June 1228 for most of the forest in Gloucestershire east of the Severn ; in October 1229 for Ombersley and Horewell in Worcestershire ; and in April 1230 for Kesteven in Lincolnshire . |
| 26 | He would have been sorry — a natural feeling for a humane man — to destroy such a creature for no reason ’ ( 1963 : 240 ) . |
| 27 | It was the first time Harry had ever seen him do such a thing for himself , but then he had heard that staff were far less easy to come by since the war . |
| 28 | What sort of twisted thoughts went through my father 's brain at the time to make him choose such a name for the child I can not start to imagine , but that was the name Angus chose for his new son . |
| 29 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 30 | Officials in the Department of the Environment , which have been advocating such a move for some time against the opposition of the Treasury , have indicated that the introduction of differential rates is still some way off , however . |