Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter approach was the proper one for the law to adopt . |
| 2 | well I read the free one for the week and that was it |
| 3 | However , two further characteristics made this group a particularly interesting one for the study of the labour market experiences of older male workers in a period of high unemployment and rapid economic and social change . |
| 4 | I see it rather as an actor 's bag of tricks , and not a very apposite one for the role . |
| 5 | I devised this one for a sewing box with a 50mm deep lid . |
| 6 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 7 | When Derek Davy and I were trying to solve this one for a book which eventually appeared as Advanced Conversational English , it proved to be an expensive and time-consuming , but eminently worthwhile task . |
| 8 | Mary took the five pound salmon from her bag , wrapped in newspaper , ‘ in which case , ’ she continued , ‘ Yanto said you could have this one for a pound , and it 's worth a least two pounds ten , as you know . |
| 9 | He decided to leave this one for the moment but logged the fact that Jennifer Morgan had still been interested in , and comfortable with , the man who had become her sister 's fiancé . |
| 10 | Mother always liked this one for the dining room because she was afraid that the needles of the real one would get into the food . |
| 11 | brought the green one home cos I brought the three samples home , the one that we 've got down and another one and another one for the hall and stair , but I said I 'm sure it was n't the same as that , but it might have been , but I have to say he always said we would |
| 12 | huh , ai n't gon na have many on the top at this rate are we ? oh lovely got another one for the top , cracker |
| 13 | ANOTHER ONE FOR THE DIARY … |
| 14 | ‘ Nice to have a fresh one for a change . ’ |
| 15 | Everybody has a deadline , whether it 's a , a three month one for a quarterly magazine , a daily one for a newspaper , a , a monthly one . |
| 16 | The year has been a very active and exciting one for the Enterprise Centre . |
| 17 | Despite the increasing sophistication of photography , war artists , painters and , occasionally sculptors , have a unique contribution to make and such an appointment is an enviable one for an artist who feels that the contemporary peacetime art scene limits his or her breadth of vision . |
| 18 | Despite the increasing sophistication of photography , war artists , painters and , occasionally sculptors , have a unique contribution to make and such an appointment is an enviable one for an artist who feels that the contemporary peacetime art scene limits his or her breadth of vision . |
| 19 | Once the information is captured in one format it is almost inevitable that it will be the wrong one for a typesetter or publishing company and a whole industry exists to convert both disk and software formats . |
| 20 | The new machine or system must not be very different from the old one for a variety of reasons . |
| 21 | And it 's not just a problem for the bank 's branches , it 's a similar one for the credit card companies at Southend . |
| 22 | It is not a serious one for the discipline , nor even in human terms does it compare with the undesirable side-effects of technological innovations in practical life and scientific research . |
| 23 | This pattern of support was a dangerous one for the club . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , between the contract date and its settlement , movements in the relative values of currencies involved might transform a profitable transaction into a loss-making one for a trader . |
| 25 | It is our view that this structure is an appropriate one for a project of this kind , following as it does the dictum that , " if you want something to happen you have to institutionalise it " . |
| 26 | Needless to say , the taxation liability is ultimately a personal one for the partner — assessed on him according to the profit-sharing formula . |
| 27 | However , the relationship between party and state is by no means an easy one for the party to manage . |
| 28 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 29 | Said he wanted to be the pretty one for a change . |
| 30 | He stood by the door and called each worker by name , shaking hands with some , inquiring about relatives of others , but thanking each one for a job well done . |