Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 2 | Tape-slide productions can be used for both group teaching , as for example , an illustration of a lecture or seminar , or for individual tuition , as in preparation for a course or for repetition . |
| 3 | Komarovsky 's ( 1946 ) classic study found that many female students experience conflict between the experience of higher education as preparation for a career and the social expectations that women should be passive , ‘ feminine ’ and marriageable . |
| 4 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 5 | These included a harvest supper , preparation for a wedding and a visit to the seaside . |
| 6 | Punctuality is not just a drama school fetish , it 's preparation for a profession where time really does cost money . |
| 7 | However , this conflict between preparation for an invasion and the immediate raiding of the enemy coasts was never clearly resolved ; and a force of Royal Marines and Commandos was held on the Clyde forever preparing for landings against the possible need to capture an Atlantic island base should Gibraltar fall . |
| 8 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 9 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 10 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 11 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
| 12 | The kitchen clock read six thirty , plenty of time to walk home to his mother 's cottage for a wash and a bit of breakfast . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 14 | Wm Low Supermarkets has been granted planning permission for a store and car park on the Ladbrokes Retail Park site in the town 's Grahams Road . |
| 15 | Physical demonstrations and protests , designed to secure much more widespread media coverage for a cause than is ever available for a cogent argument , are an increasingly frequent means of political communication and the House of Commons has not been exempt . |
| 16 | Earnings per share fell from 11.9p to 4.2p.The company took a £200,000 exceptional charge for bad debts on a contract for a firm that went into receivership in November . |
| 17 | But McDonnell Douglas , which beat more than 100 firms to win the contract for a payroll and personnel system , says it will oppose the ‘ ill advised ’ legal action . |
| 18 | Ltd. v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha [ 1962 ] , in which it was held that a term implied in a hire contract for a ship that it must be seaworthy was such an innominate term . |
| 19 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 20 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 21 | They may well claim that such commitments would result in bankruptcy , but if that were the case ( and it seems unlikely ) , the case for a lesbian and gay politics that addresses problems in our social structures remains a strong one . |
| 22 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 23 | What better case for an exception than this ? |
| 24 | Both articles sustain the case for an anti-essentialist and pragmatic politics , and therefore question the appeal to the category of experience in the two movements . |
| 25 | Here , of course , you will also need to make provision for a bed and clothes storage . |
| 26 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 27 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |
| 28 | For example , a company 's budget will normally detail a sales budget for a period whilst the published accounts will show sales for the year . |
| 29 | The second method is use a Ceiling Maestro , which is screwed to a joist or a piece of timber between the joists , and which has a hook for a chain and a screwed hole for a rod . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 've some crazy notion in that muddled excuse for a brain that I 've got designs on your person , allow me to disabuse you of it right now , ’ he told her bluntly , bringing hot , but thankfully invisible , colour to her cheeks . |