Example sentences of "[conj] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To book a guide for your family visit , your group or society , or for an individual tour , ask for further details and a booking form from the Tourist Information Centre at Northampton Visitor Centre , Mr Grant 's House , 10 St. Giles Square , Northampton . |
| 2 | We asked interior designer Judy Smith to ensure the flat was suitable for a nanny or for an elderly person to use as a ‘ granny flat ’ . |
| 3 | Appointments are not confined to those with professional qualifications or a knowledge of law ; men and women not uncommonly read for the Bar or for an external University degree after appointment . |
| 4 | Any party , including the guardian ad litem , may apply in writing for specific directions or for an existing direction to be varied or revoked . |
| 5 | Oil and gas , for example , can be used as fuels within the pyrolysis system , or for an adjacent plant such as a combined heat and power system . |
| 6 | Or for an immediate quote call us free of charge on 0800 850 850 . |
| 7 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 8 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 9 | Jordanstown is ideally placed for quick trips to Belfast , the capital city , or for an exploratory tour of Carrickfergus , with its perfectly preserved 12th-century castle , Elizabethan parish church and modern marina . |
| 10 | Jordanstown is ideally placed for quick trips to Belfast , the capital city , or for an exploratory tour of Carrickfergus , with its perfectly preserved 12th-century castle , Elizabethan parish church and modern marina . |
| 11 | The library was empty except for an elderly man pottering in Biography and a couple of schoolchildren in the reference section ; there was opportunity for what Joyce called a natter , and no escaping it . |
| 12 | Yanto sat in front of the now blazing fire , naked , except for an ex-army blanket draped around him . |
| 13 | Except for an unsuccessful trip to Baghdad before the allied air offensive , the UN 's secretary-general , Javier Perez de Cuellar , has played a minor diplomatic part . |
| 14 | The ecological setting was similar to that of today , except for an alkaline lake which has long since evaporated . |
| 15 | He was faithful to his wife — except for an occasional nurse , which she had to agree did n't count — and was n't into drugs or gambling or politics . |
| 16 | I can not remember our Louis having had an amorous affair , except for an occasional romp in the hay with an attractive little tram-conductress called Cathie . |
| 17 | A torrente is a river which usually flows only after rain or the melting of the snows ; most of the rivers that descend from the Apennines towards the Po and the Adriatic are torrenti , more or less dry in summer except for an occasional pool where you could swim in those far-off days without much danger to your health . |
| 18 | They are transparent , shaped like the long slender leaves of a willow and without fins except for an undulating fringe around their margin . |
| 19 | For a lot longer than that , the French themselves have viewed the driver from Marseilles as the most horrific encounter possible , except for an English breakfast . |
| 20 | The place was almost empty except for an old man in one corner and a boy and a girl eating chicken and chips two booths away . |
| 21 | So lost was I in the film that for an awful moment I too was about to spawn one of the dreadful aliens . |
| 22 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
| 23 | Neither of the formulas so far mentioned will do ; the Gibbs formula gives an entropy that for an isolated system of molecules is easily shown to stay constant in time rather than to increase , and the Boltzmann formula also does not have the desired non-decrease property if the system is not a gas . |
| 24 | Janet 's Norwegian is n't what it could be and she had n't understood the producer 's instruction that for an English translation she needed an ear-piece . |
| 25 | A good feature of the Solution is that it offers flexibility in the depth of the decompression range , so that for an indicated ceiling of three metres it will accept that you are in the correct range if you are between nine and three metres depth . |
| 26 | Experience to date has shown that dates for Proofs under the Optional Procedure are allocated much quicker than for an ordinary action . |
| 27 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
| 28 | Easier , he says , for a zonal defender like himself to switch to a marking game than for an Italian marker to change to zonal defence , ‘ because a zoner is all positional play . ’ |
| 29 | It is he who must answer before Parliament for anything that his officials have done under his authority , and , if for an important matter he selected an official of such junior standing that he could not be expected competently to perform the work , the minister would have to answer for that in Parliament . |
| 30 | ‘ Our customers buy a simple service ; the transportation of their goods between two points in an agreed time and for an agreed price . |