Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extend your stay and travel , by air , to Cairo , for a 3 night stay , before returning to Luxor for a final 4 nights to unwind . |
| 2 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 3 | LET'S KNIFE ( Creation ) is the most bizarre thing you 'll hear all year : Nirvana meet the Shangri-Las for a dozen high energy throwaway thrash tunes with titles such as Flying Jelly Attack , Cycling Is Fun , I Am A Cat and Bear Up Bison . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On Aug. 26 the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the extension of president 's rule in Jammu and Kashmir for a further six months from its expiry on Sept. 2 . |
| 6 | I took a siesta in the shade , and when evening rolled around was feeling fit enough to head back into Bandera for a few more beers at the Silver Dollar . |
| 7 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 8 | CHATAM can become the first horse since the great Arkle 27 years ago to land the Hennessy for a second successive year . |
| 9 | There was talk of sending Edward for a short health-restoring visit to Swindon . |
| 10 | Issued in June 1991 , Pearl 's ITT for a new financial systems and management information system was sent to four potential suppliers : Quality Software Products ( QSP ) ; Computer Associates ; Dun & Bradstreet Software ( formed from MSA and McCormack & Dodge ) and Walker . |
| 11 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's foreign minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over a segment of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a national coastal defence force . |
| 12 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over a segment of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a national coastal defence force . |
| 13 | The speculation that Quayle might be dropped in 1992 in favour of Gen. Colin Powell was further dampened when on May 23 Bush nominated Powell for a second two-year term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 15 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 16 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
| 17 | Take off early morning before the heat of the day , and back in England for an easy onward journey by 0800 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Tea , like breakfast , was taken with Nannie when Mademoiselle was on holiday — Nannie was not really Nannie for a great big girl of eight . |
| 20 | Other statements included one on negotiations with EFTA for a European Economic Area [ see p. 38307 ] . |
| 21 | It would then be replaced by The Prince of Wales 's Own Regiment of Yorkshire for a further six months . |
| 22 | Watmoughs have just secured the contract to print The Sunday Times magazine in Scarborough for a further five years . |
| 23 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 24 | Agreement was announced on June 8 on funding from the World Bank and the IMF for a three-year structural adjustment programme to begin in mid-1990 . |
| 25 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 26 | He built a thatched ‘ Butterfly ’ at Exmouth for a fellow old Harrovian called Major Weatherby , and the wildly eccentric ‘ Home Place ’ just outside Holt . |
| 27 | Tributaries feed the loch from Glen Docherty , beyond Kinlochewe , and its waters escape into the River Ewe for a last short journey of two miles only to the sea . |
| 28 | In January 1979 when he was finally released from hospital he and Raine booked into the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane for an expensive month-long convalescence . |
| 29 | Aquaria and cabinets can be sent anywhere in the UK for a small extra charge . |
| 30 | The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response . |