Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 2 | Some may see the bird 's warning cry as falling short of lying for a further reason . |
| 3 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 4 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 5 | These tend to be those least capable of caring for a child , or those bearing a foetus with malformations for which the diagnosis is time-consuming . |
| 6 | ‘ Debbie could certainly be capable of working for a hairdresser in some capacity , ’ says Fergus Stewart , a lecturer at the Central Manchester College of Technology where Mrs Finni had Debbie briefly enrolled this spring after her local branch of the Amnesia Association suggested a visit . |
| 7 | Did not this column say , when the apparently creaking colossus joined Durham , that as long as he is capable of playing for a county he must play for England . |
| 8 | His hand had dropped to her shoulder and Maria stared at him , immobilised by the fascination he exerted and incapable of speaking for a moment , for all the hot rebellion boiling up in her mind . |
| 9 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |