Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This a treat for Reger enthusiasts ( are they numerous ? ) , devotees of the piano duet and anyone who enjoys persuasive performances of unfamiliar late romantic repertoire . |
| 2 | Is this a ground for divorce ? |
| 3 | But if he believes this a matter for regret , if he believes the decisions that established that " right " were either unjust or inefficient or both , he sees no reason why he should extend the principle underlying these decisions any further than other judges already have . |
| 4 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 5 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 6 | Only an eccentric would consider spending £1,000 on such a course for fun , and the company would probably refuse to accept such a trainee . |
| 7 | She had such a capacity for joy that she overcame such negative feelings , ’ Bettina explained . |
| 8 | At that stage any pressure may be such a test for faith that the believer is faced with a choice : Give up or go back to square one . |
| 9 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 10 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 11 | The desirability of ‘ tying up ’ a settlement in one parcel sometimes give rise to a problem for the parliamentary agent in drafting the legislation , the question being whether to put in a protective clause at the outset , or to omit it and negotiate a settlement of such a clause for insertion at a later stage . |
| 12 | That does not have to be decided in this case , nor is it necessary to consider what defences would be open to such a claim for recovery of the money paid if it lay . |
| 13 | As I see him sitting there now , sheltered under a derelict building 's covered way , one which has been empty for a tedious never-ending era , with an unchangeable lifestyle , erected for nothing but with such a prospect for life , if used properly . |
| 14 | In the East , ‘ there could be such a lust for reunification for economic reasons , to get access to the prosperity of West Germany , that it will pressurise all the existing political parties into embracing reunification . ’ |
| 15 | On the evidence presented here it appears that the majority of low attaining pupils do not have sufficient working understanding of decimal place value in context to develop such a feeling for number . |
| 16 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 17 | The Agency claims that this is the first time such a model for analysis has been used . |
| 18 | He talks about news of the education cuts in England , and is aghast when there is such a thirst for education all around him . |
| 19 | An I such a glutton for punishment that I would take on romantic love rather than follow Germaine Greer 's example and embrace ‘ hagdom ’ , as she recommends in her new book The Change ( Hamish Hamilton , £16.99 ) , and with it , a loveless old age ? |
| 20 | Such a role for management assumes that : |
| 21 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 22 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 23 | Such a task for sociology may appear reasonable and innocuous , particularly in societies which embrace a commitment to the principle of using knowledge for practical purposes and not to any principle of knowledge for knowledge 's sake' . |
| 24 | How can his robust commonsensical fallibilism be reconciled with his recognizing such a demand for justification ? |
| 25 | Such a search for peace and human dignity must be our aim as Christian communicators . |
| 26 | Annunziata , who had so personal a reason for resentment , made no such criticisms . |
| 27 | We will be paying you a fee of 100 a day for work on the production and one day 's preparation i.e. a total of 1200 . |
| 28 | Because this is so crucial a matter for consideration in RE , I discuss this example in some detail . |
| 29 | It will be appreciated that these insubstantial structures can not form as satisfactory a basis for conversion into dwellings as can the traditional masonry-built flail-threshing barn . |
| 30 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |