Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FNT agreed to a six-month no-strike deal in return for a government undertaking that it would suspend plans to dismiss 25,000 state-sector workers , stabilize the currency and adopt a " realistic " view on questions of economic regeneration , privatization and title to property seized under Sandinista rule . |
| 2 | Knott meantime offered his mines to the Taylor partnership in return for a share in the whole . |
| 3 | Apart from providing a dramatic increase in speed in return for a reduction in effort , a computerised recruitment system improves the quality of the service provided . |
| 4 | Two defences are available to a defendant in proceedings for a nuisance order . |
| 5 | The one time City and England striker , now a millionaire businessman , put the pressure on chairman Peter Swales by revealing that he and two colleagues were prepared to put substantial funds into the club in return for a seat on the board . |
| 6 | The decision came in the wake of an announcement by Bush on May 3 cancelling plans to modernize short-range Lance missiles and nuclear artillery in readiness for a " triple-zero " agreement with the Soviet Union to reduce or eliminate all short-range land-based nuclear missiles in Europe . |
| 7 | At the second check , at the end of the wire tunnel , his name was searched for again , and he had to hand in his H area card in exchange for a temporary pass , and a phone call was made ahead . |
| 8 | maintenance is the support of litigation by a stranger without just course ; champerty is an aggravated form of maintenance , its distinguishing feature being the support of litigation by a stranger in return for a share of the proceeds . |
| 9 | A man had once weighed his daughter in the huge scales used in the port for the cargoes coming off the ships from the East , he had promised that the suitor his daughter chose would take her weight in gold for a dowry , she was so virtuous . |
| 10 | At every competition you will see karateka working hard to sweat off the extra weight in time for a re-weigh . |
| 11 | We were on the loose in France for a couple of months . |
| 12 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 13 | On 22 May 1807 he joined the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth for a period of eighteen months after which , as a midshipman , he served in Lavinia in the Mediterranean and north Atlantic for more than three years . |
| 14 | That was the case in which the owner , Mr. Dobson , sold his gold watch and diamond ring in return for a building society cheque which turned out to be a stolen cheque and worthless . |
| 15 | 54 ( 2 ) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall affect the creation by parol of leases taking effect in possession for a term not exceeding three years ( whether or not the lessee is given power to extend the term ) at the best rent which can be reasonably obtained without taking a fine . |
| 16 | Three years A lease taking effect in possession for a term not exceeding three years at a rack rent need not be made by deed and may be made orally ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s54 ) . |
| 17 | On the accession of Bayezid II , Hocazade was appointed to the Sultan medrese in Bursa for a second time , with 100 akce a day , and was also appointed mufti of Bursa . |
| 18 | Hunt 's main claim to fame these days is his two-year term in prison for a particularly nasty libel — he called the Prince Regent ‘ a fat Adonis of 50 ’ . |
| 19 | ANOTHER Conservative heavyweight was publicly aligned against Mrs Thatcher over Europe last night when Sir Leon Brittan , vice-president of the European Commission , denounced ‘ the dangerous illusion of total sovereignty ’ as an impediment in battles for a free-market Europe already largely won . |
| 20 | In September the NUM agreed to drop legal action in return for a donation from the IMO of £742,000 . |
| 21 | I have a bogus copy of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States which has been turned into a fireproof combination lock safe , but that was a professional job done by my mate Lenny the Lathe in return for a favour . |
| 22 | Analogously , membership declines below the MD curve : with a fall in wages for a given ta ; , the utility loss from paying union dues increases , and membership therefore declines . |
| 23 | I do n't care if he appeared in the ad in return for a donation to the Terrence Higgins Trust . |
| 24 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 25 | Crewe 's 600-seater Lyceum Theatre is presenting Puss in Boots for a month 's run with veteran panto stars like Peggy Mount , Liza Goddard and entertainer and TV game host Bob Carolgees . |
| 26 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 27 | It was but a poor trophy for the day — a flag in exchange for a Regent , and Balliol still at large . |
| 28 | Now we 've had a Sale of Goods Act in Britain for a long time . |
| 29 | A TURNER painting owned by the University of London is to be sold to the John Paul Getty Museum in California for a record £11 million . |
| 30 | A TURNER painting owned by London University is to be sold to the John Paul Getty Museum in California for a record £11 million , it was disclosed last night . |