Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 2 | Shaun 's last years at school had been difficult he 'd even taken a swing at a teacher at one point — and he 'd earned a reputation for the motherless Hammond boys that Wayne had found himself sharing even though he 'd done nothing to earn it . |
| 3 | Among the innumerable classical sites that grace the landscape of south-western Turkey and those excavated in the Mediterranean basin in recent years , Aphrodisias has rightfully earned a reputation for the importance , abundance and quality of its discoveries . |
| 4 | But Patrick Jenkin , the Secretary of State for Industry , and Peter Benton , chairman of British Telecom Enterprises and deputy chairman of BT , showed themselves curiously ignorant of the fact that Britain has still not nominated a VIP for the WCY Committee of Honour . |
| 5 | The area was highly unsuitable as it was considered a watershed for the Lee Valley . |
| 6 | The Rancher President , who had carried a gun for the sake of the movie camera , nearly perished by the gun . |
| 7 | I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests . |
| 8 | One night , half-way through the run , the box-office manager excitedly rang through to us back-stage and said that the theatre director Matthew Pyke had booked a ticket for The Jungle Book . |
| 9 | In a number of cases in England defendants have conceded a liability for the consequences of injury before birth : Williams v. Luff , The Times , 13 February 1978 ; Whitehouse v. Jordan [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 246 ; McKay v. Essex Area Health Authority [ 1982 ] Q.B . |
| 10 | They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice . |
| 11 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 12 | The lad has done a lot for the club out in the middle and in the dressing room , but has n't answered our prime need — someone to knock over the opposition . |
| 13 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 14 | For instance , in 1666 he was granted a licence for the cultivation of senna in the plantations . |
| 15 | Norwood , Massachusetts-based Microcom Inc reports that it has been granted a patent for the Microcom Networking Protocol Class 10 feature , called Aggressive Adaptive Packet Assembly : the feature improves data link transmission performance by pro-actively adapting the size of data packets to line conditions — MNP 10 enables modems to connect , stay connected and have the highest transmission possible , regardless of the line conditions . |
| 16 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 17 | As Gorbad headed back east , the Dwarfs saw their chance to revenge themselves and prepared a trap for the retreating Orc army . |
| 18 | The Kazakh government has recognized the problem and has accepted a programme for the construction of appropriate burial sites . |
| 19 | A quantitative analysis of these alternants , taken from 30 one-hour interviews of 15 men and 15 women , had revealed a preference for the indicative and conditional forms in lower-status groups and by all speakers in less careful styles . |
| 20 | His reputation as a shipbuilder was still second to none and , having built a warship for the Sultan of Turkey , he was invited to Turkey to re-organise the country 's construction of warships . |
| 21 | That possibility was handled by Bob Beckman , an American economist-writer who has settled in this country and has built a reputation for the uncanny accuracy of his predictions , though it is fair to say that not everyone agrees with his views of his predictions . |
| 22 | Now , in Housesitter , he plays the part of a jilted architect who has built a house for the girlfriend who no longer wants to marry him . |
| 23 | This applies even where ( as was usual ) the stable incorporated a loft for the storage of hay so that this fodder could be pitched readily into the racks in the stalls below , because the loft exploited the roof space and was rarely built as a full-height upper storey . |
| 24 | Was it not his father who had resolutely argued a case for the necessary acquisition of bourgeois culture in order to succeed ? |
| 25 | Was it not his father who had implicitly argued a case for the moral uprightness of bourgeois culture and bourgeois education ? |
| 26 | A communiqué stated that all participants had adopted a programme for the implementation within 60 days of major aspects of a ceasefire agreement , including the disarming of the NPFL and the relinquishing of NPFL-held territory to ECOMOG forces . |
| 27 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 28 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 29 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
| 30 | Now no-one 's ever seen a quark for the simple reason that no-one has ever managed to produced a free quark . |