Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls were wanting something done , partitioned off up the back or something for the draught coming under |
| 2 | So the other ones , the ones that need correcting , we 've got ta do a procedure or something for the team ? |
| 3 | There was no party or anything for the reopening . |
| 4 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 5 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 6 | Free impasto work will require a different type of brush than one for the application of thin washes . |
| 7 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 8 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 9 | Everything would be done for party interests — and nothing for the nation . |
| 10 | I 'll talk to her ; I 'd rather you did n't butt in at this stage — and nothing for the record . |
| 11 | if nothing for the fact that the message that is coming home loud and clear is this request for clarification , the advent of certainty , one way or another . |
| 12 | The built heritage of South and West Wales in Cadw 's care includes fascinating prehistoric , Roman , medieval and historic industrial sites — enough to capture the interest of all ages and plenty for the general and specialist visitor to enjoy . |
| 13 | Brownie points , though , for the clock radio , iron and bathrobes — if none for the heating , which consists of a Dimplex convector-cum-night storage heater . |
| 14 | When acting on such a double transaction it 's more efficient , and saves time and confusion , to keep two separate files , one for the sale and one for the purchase — never keep both on the same file . |
| 15 | Place a blob for each corner and one for the centre of each slab . |
| 16 | I won one for the poem and one for the song . |
| 17 | He undertook to make Buddhism the state religion ( Aung San had thrown out any reference to Buddhism in the 1947 constitution ) , and he promised to create two new ethnic states , one for Arakan , and one for the Mons of Tenasserim . |
| 18 | I believe two coaches erm , one for the R group and one for the G group |
| 19 | In Spain , the power of the government is represented , as in the French model , by ministerial delegates to the RENFE board , one for the treasury and one for the ministry of transport ( before 1977 for the ministry of public works ) . |
| 20 | is planning to appoint two new Travelling Secretaries , one for the North and one for the South of the U.K. ( excluding Northern Ireland ) . |
| 21 | The upshot was the establishment of four Councils : one for Scotland ( 1946 ) ; one for the North ( 1948 ) ; one for the Midlands formed in the same year ; and one for the South founded in 1951 . |
| 22 | Each sock has to be four feet long , three feet for the leg and one for the foot . |
| 23 | In addition to stipulating that the office of Prime Minister had to be held by a Melanesian , the Constitution now also guaranteed 37 of the 70 seats in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber of the bicameral legislature ) to the indigenous population , 27 seats to the Indian community , five seats for other races and one for the inhabitants of Rotuma island [ see p. 35252 for previous weighted basis ] . |
| 24 | In the non-elected upper house of 34 members , 24 seats were reserved for Melanesians , nine for Indians and other races , and one for the inhabitants of Rotuma . |
| 25 | And one for the road , the last word in car hi-fi . |
| 26 | They 're saying one thing for one sex and one for the other . ’ |
| 27 | There 's two methods of policing , one for the decent people and one for the trouble-makers . |
| 28 | One for the windows and one for the phone points . |
| 29 | Three different tapes were made , two for the judgment phase and one for the recognition phase , each judgment tape contained 24 films , one of each pair , the recognition tape contained the full 48 films . |
| 30 | There are rumours from other regions of two manpower lists , one for local consumption and one for the Department of Health . |