Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | A Victor V486MX mini-tower has just arrived at Lyndhurst West for a long-term test . |
| 3 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 4 | We are grateful to Hazel Fox , Harriet Dawes , Judith Manches , Judith Bridge , Vicky Andrew , Ann Upton , Elizabeth Potter , Nadja Tollemache and Tracy Minns for gifts of money , to Katrina Crossley for a valuable contact with the publisher Butterworths , and to the newly-formed Somerville Lawyers ' Group for the promise of continuing support . |
| 5 | On arrival transfer to the Luxor Hilton for a two night stay . |
| 6 | Fly to Luxor where you will be met and transferred to the Luxor Hilton for a four night stay . |
| 7 | On May 28 the leaders of the nine main opposition parties were reported to have supported FMLN demands for a sharp reduction in the power of the military , as a crucial step towards ending the 11-year civil war . |
| 8 | Always a man of action , he enrolled at Napier College for a self-learning course and , in his own words , ‘ respectfully departed from insurance and never regretted it . ’ |
| 9 | Southall 's departure forced Kendall to take off winger Robert Warzycha and send on gutsy substitute Australian keeper Jason Kearton for a dazzling debut — never mind the scoreline . |
| 10 | A RED DEVIL MARK Hughes is sent off by Danish referee Jan Dangaard for a second bookable offence long before Manchester United 's mission to Moscow ends in bitter defeat . |
| 11 | Shevardnadze proposals for a broad-based government in which the People 's Democratic Party , headed by President Najibullah , would take a share were unacceptable to the mujaheddin . |
| 12 | He was concerned that Clift 's continuing sessions with Silverberg were making him worse , and he tried to get Silverberg to commit Clift to Silver Hill Sanatorium for a hopeful cure . |
| 13 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 14 | Saints boss Ian Branfoot made it a double raid on London when he also signed Chelsea 's Dutch defender Ken Monkou for a similar figure . |
| 15 | Complementing the Dieppe exhibition at the Museum he joins folk/rock guitarist and composer Andy Roberts for a modern celebration of Normandy . |
| 16 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 17 | Radio Ulster 's popular lunchtime topical affairs programme invites listeners to join regular armchair commentators and DAVID DUNSEITH for a live show in the Elmwood Hall . |
| 18 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 19 | Rejected the NEC plan for a separate society for black and Asian members that would be open to voting white members . |
| 20 | In the 1590s it appeared that there were already two reversioners to the post of Clerk to the Privy Seal , when a request came from Edward Reynolds for a third . |
| 21 | He was dropped from the side that shut out City 's new goal-king Andy Cole for a well-earned away point from old boss Denis Smith . |
| 22 | The 42-year-old multi-millionaire was snapped — dressed as an allegory of flight — on his private island of Necker in the British Virgin Islands for a world-wide advertising campaign due to be launched next month . |
| 23 | HOUSTON — BPX set another new Gulf of Mexico record for a horizontal well on the Amberjack Project . |
| 24 | Crystal Palace aim for a sixth successive win when they meet Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | The session had originally been called to debate the reform of the electoral system and to allow the sending of Japanese troops abroad in peacekeeping or disaster-relief roles — two pieces of legislation closely associated with Kaifu 's ambitions to secure election as LDP leader for a second term . |
| 26 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 27 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 28 | Recently , local-government chiefs were invited to Downing Street for an amiable if unfocused chat . |
| 29 | The chaos continued as they reversed the Queen 's Rolls Royce for a quick departure . |
| 30 | Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr sold an unusual interior scene , ‘ Le couronnement de la rosière ’ by the rarely found seventeenth-century French artist Jean Michelin for a mere FFr125,000 ( £12,700 ; $22,300 ) . |