Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 2 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 3 | Others like Robert Jones feel that such an arrangement for these showpiece games leads to a rather apathetic atmosphere at the Arms Park . |
| 4 | Well that 's gon na be about two hundred and forty , two hundred and fifty a month for that one down . |
| 5 | ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the software writers arranged that the start of the track has to be detected before the search begins , this becomes a full revolution ; this is made up of half a track to locate the start , and half a track for the search . |
| 8 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 9 | And they paid me sixteen and six an hour for the tractor and a mower and myself . |
| 10 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 11 | Newton 's mechanics provided such a programme for eighteenth and nineteenth-century physicists , the programme for explaining the entire physical world in terms of mechanical systems involving various forces and governed by Newton 's laws of motion . |
| 12 | That was far too weak and mild a word for the emotions he stirred . |
| 13 | That he satisfied so impatient and fastidious a monarch for so long says much for his efficiency and sensitivity . |
| 14 | With his stylish , imaginative vitality and very fleet fingers , he is certainly as persuasive an advocate for the fortepiano — and again he uses a Derek Adlam instrument ‘ after ’ a Nanette Streicher of 1815 P as anyone in the catalogue . |