Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A bit raunchy for a family newspaper , ’ he said , ‘ but I expect we 'll manage somehow . ’ |
| 2 | They thought that was a bit steep for a quarter of an hour 's work and sent back the bill with a request to itemize it . |
| 3 | Then I 'm going to give her to mummy yummy for a feed . |
| 4 | A power surge blew the fuse on the White House autocue and the President dried-up for a moment and then ad-libbed . |
| 5 | In Orwell 's celebration of the glamour of miners , Orwell ca n't resist a ruling class analogy : they 've got a " figure fit for a guardsman , " he said . |
| 6 | And Tarzan meets the Big Cat … a car fit for a President . |
| 7 | Much more of the danger being generated by the Leeds side desperate for a win . |
| 8 | It is the conflict between the players in any drama which heightens or when necessary relaxes the tension necessary for a climax to the plot . |
| 9 | If North Shields was to become a viable shopping centre and attract the kind of investment necessary for a scheme on the scale being envisaged in the 1960s and 1970s , then population and purchasing power had to be drawn into the town centre . |
| 10 | Other safe forms of investment which could then be considered for any capital your parent may have could also include the building societies , local authority bonds ( if she is prepared to leave her money untouched for a year or two ) , National Savings Certificates , Post Office Savings , the National Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Bank . |
| 11 | My former BBC colleague at Westminster , John Harrison , reporting from Zimbabwe on Maundy Thursday , caught the horror of it in a memorable phrase : the cost of an Easter egg , he said , would keep a child alive for a month or more . |
| 12 | THE standard of the Queen 's Birthday Parade as a spectacle fit for a monarch was threatened by cuts in troops available for ceremonial duties , a Tory warned in the Commons yesterday . |
| 13 | No matter , it was a wild weekend , and some time soon I 'll return to the scene of the crime and see if I can make the princely pond a home fit for a frog . |
| 14 | Halfway up was a landing lighted by a small Gothic-shaped window with leaded panes — a window fit for a witch 's gingerbread house . |
| 15 | ( Plain boiled onions are another dish fit for a king . ) |
| 16 | The first flying commercial traveller : a salesman loads a sample of the Tellus Super Vacuum Cleaner onto an aeroplane ready for a sales trip throughout the UK , 1926 . |
| 17 | In short a kitchen fit for a Floyd . |
| 18 | And she 'd been glumly aware that her quick retort , ‘ I 'm not — I just felt a bit cold for a moment , ’ had sounded remarkably unconvincing . |
| 19 | One of the objectors emphasised the 13 residents were not against integrated education but considered the low lying site unsuitable for a school . |
| 20 | His prestige received a further boost in the late 1920s when the Sunday Express invited ‘ the famous manager of the Arsenal Football Club ’ to contribute a weekly column , a degree of journalistic attention unprecedented for a football manager . |
| 21 | It was a feast fit for a king , and afterwards when we left we felt well fortified to tackle the hill back up to camp . |
| 22 | A feast fit for a prawn : Revolutionary food capsules may lead to bigger and better harvests of shellfish . |
| 23 | But this was a job fit for a Princess and her link with part of Oxford 's academic world may soon be permanent . |
| 24 | It is an evil slit , a place fit for a horror film . |
| 25 | A few paces below where the body lay , and a yard or so into the bushes , there was a patch of free stones , loosely overgrown with grass and lichen , and to all appearance undisturbed for a year or more ; until something about the clear outlining of the upper stone made him look closer . |
| 26 | James joined the company on May 17 from Forte plc where he was executive director responsible for a group of restaurant businesses . |
| 27 | It was one of the only bright spots of the night punctuated mostly with sloppy , nervous play from a Leeds team desperate for a win to take away some of the mounting pressure and criticism generated from recent team performances . |
| 28 | The theory must predict the orientation of the telescope necessary for a sighting of the planet at some specified time . |
| 29 | Words to be underlined are " bracketed " with ∘S The program produces an output file suitable for a printer which expects such words to be bracketed by ∘Y . |
| 30 | How genuine was that consent ? ( d ) As the level of suspicion necessary for a stop and search is virtually indistinguishable from that required for an arrest , there may be a pressure to arrest in a wider range of circumstances . |