Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good use of animated VGA graphics and pop-up windows with property information make this a must for fans of the board game . |
| 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 | Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 5 | The periodic swarming mass of adults provides such a surfeit for predators that the majority of the cicadas survive to lay eggs . |
| 6 | Ash End House Farm was such a success for parents and children that I have organised another day out for the Christmas Holidays . |
| 7 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | These old Jews , they 've got such a feeling for kids , they can spot 'em almost before they 're conceived . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm especially pleased you have such a fondness for babies . |
| 11 | The profiles shown in Figure 3.3 do indicate such a curve for men and for women in the early stages of their working careers . |
| 12 | In the month that WWII broke out , Trumbo 's pacifistic novel about the previous bash was issued and instantly suppressed ( a move with which , incidentally , the author was in full agreement , feeling it too dangerous a book for soldiers already in the field to be exposed to ) . |
| 13 | Industrial training is too crucial a question for politicians to remain ignorant about the issues involved . |
| 14 | As late as 1948 , John Newsom , in what R. A. Butler ( the sponsor of the 1944 Education Act ) , described as ‘ wise and humorous recommendations for girls ’ schools ' , favoured as separate a curriculum for girls — grounded in domestic subjects — as any advocated by early twentieth-century eugenicists . |
| 15 | Last May the plant at Cowley in Oxford decided to double its rate of production of the models from 300 to 600 a week for markets in the UK , France and Spain . |
| 16 | Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why owl pellet analysis is so useful a tool for ecologists is the good preservation and lack of breakage of most of the bones . |
| 18 | Nothing of the old building remained and the long extension to the bar , dignified by the name Banqueting Hall , provided for the undiscriminating a venue for weddings and local functions and on other nights served a predictable menu of prawns or soup , steak or chicken , and fruit salad with ice-cream . |
| 19 | Why is there no socialism in the United States ? remains as pertinent a question for Marxists as when Werner Sombart , then a Marxist , first asked it in 1904 . |
| 20 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 21 | Be aware of current public opinion — the writer who advertised a vacuum cleaner with the words : " At last a turbo for women drivers " was running a grave risk of alienating women . |