Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one girl now has more than 24 beads , she has won a hole for each four beads on the other player 's side . |
| 2 | I had once won a prize for French poetry composition at school , so I did n't feel too outclassed in this respect . |
| 3 | The structure plans then provided a framework for local plans , which were to be more detailed strategies prepared at district level . |
| 4 | But equally , it provided a home for some of the darkest forms of distrust of and revulsion from sex and marriage . |
| 5 | But though New Cross is n't so good they had to name it twice , it 's still a place worth a song of its own , having once lent its name to New Cross Records , a Charly offshoot that provided a home for some Dillinger and Bob Marley releases . |
| 6 | Around it a variety of flower beds and grassy banks provided a backdrop for several undulating footpaths . |
| 7 | The New Yorker thought The Graduate merited 26 pages , and it provided a springboard for endless discussions about modern youth . |
| 8 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 9 | It is on record that the inn provided a depot for raw fleece and wool for the spinners and knitters brought by the hosiers ' servants from Kendal and later the finished work would be collected . |
| 10 | The high grey walls of the Roman fort provided a screen for these modern soldiers and their bizarre equipment . |
| 11 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 12 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 13 | After 1337 no decade passed without laymen leasing , or acquiring full ownership of alien priory lands , an experience which undoubtedly whetted the public appetite for appropriating church lands , while it simultaneously provided a precedent for such forcible recovery . |
| 14 | The Copernican system , Bruno believed , fitted perfectly in such a universe and provided a model for other planetary systems extending to infinity . |
| 15 | The production of a group of related species on the different islands of an archipelago provided a model for divergent evolution , suggesting that , when a species was divided into separate breeding populations , each of those populations had the ability to change as it adapted to its new environment . |
| 16 | The town provided a living for 15 bakers and flour dealers , 8 blacksmiths , 27 boot and shoe makers , 24 butchers , 11 confectioners , 21 grocers and tea dealers , 7 hatters , 10 hair dressers and perfumers , 18 joiners and builders , 9 drapers , 11 maltsters , 17 milliners , 24 tailors and drapers , 8 watch and clock makers and numerous others . |
| 17 | Economic circumstances provided a context for Nazi appeal . |
| 18 | Though changing methods of planning for traffic specifically in residential areas were not a central thrust of Traffic in Towns , the book provided a context for residential area strategies which , in the event , have guided a number of countries in the ensuing quarter century . |
| 19 | The event aimed at launching a strategy for improving health in the region is being held at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel on July 7 . |
| 20 | Suggest a continuation for each of the following : |
| 21 | The Wick is far too entrancing a place for that . |
| 22 | It 's so long I do n't need a map for some reason . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll need a receipt for that , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 24 | Do you really need a caption for these two photos ? |
| 25 | You will need a document for any kind of transaction because you will have to prove to the authorities legal ownership of each and every work of art . |
| 26 | I do n't need a membership for that ! |
| 27 | Yeah do you need a hammer for those ? |
| 28 | Schools will need a mechanism for whole-curriculum planning . |
| 29 | Crevices provide a home for snail-like molluscs ( gasteropods ) like periwinkles , but also other species like the top-shells . |
| 30 | Many new and fascinating approaches can be worked out in the voluntary setting and provide a base for constructive criticism of statutory provision and a fund of enthusiasm for change . |