Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 2 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 3 | ‘ You want to take that brute for a walk ? ’ |
| 4 | Trade in that direction for a parish priest is fairly brisk , arrangements for christenings , funerals , marriages , that sort of thing , ’ Tallboy said offhandedly , as though he himself regularly joined couples in wedlock . |
| 5 | I think there is , there is an attempt to move in that direction for a set of ideological reasons . |
| 6 | I referred sir at the beginning to er the limited experience I 've had in Nottinghamshire where erm a criteria based policy was put into a structure plan erm for er in that case for a prestige business development I think is what they call it , prestige business park , that was a criteria based policy as a way of containing , stopping this strategic issue becoming a Trojan horse for lots of other things . |
| 7 | Employees who are redeployed to posts outwith their recognised employment field will be given priority consideration for any subsequent vacancy which arises in that field for a period of one year following the date of redeployment . |
| 8 | There is little support for a pact with the Ulster Unionist MPs . |
| 9 | But the Law Lords , applying European law , ruled that liability for a dismissal by a seller before a business transfer passes to the purchaser if the employee has been unfairly dismissed for a reason connected with the transfer . |
| 10 | We 've still got that tape for a couple of a weeks . |
| 11 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 12 | On the road , the GTi costs £10,903 — add about 300 to that figure for a radio cassette and electric front windows . |
| 13 | Let us not shatter that illusion for a week or so . |
| 14 | Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity , resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day . |
| 15 | She boiled some milk for a cup of cocoa , resolving to steer clear of the brandy and hot milk : all that talk of pookas in the car had made her sound neurotic ! |
| 16 | However we 're beginning to make some progress and we 're making some progress for a number of reasons . |
| 17 | To recoup her strength and escape all this … this horror for a while . |
| 18 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 20 | But I like this guitar for a number of reasons . |
| 21 | Many in the tourism industry believe the revenue created would far outweigh any protests that it was just another excuse for a day off . |
| 22 | Mr Major was meeting Agriculture Minister John Gummer this afternoon for a report on the meeting in Chicago . |
| 23 | Base rates then remained at this level for a year , before starting to fall in October 1990 , when Britain joined the ERM . |
| 24 | The results are preserved in some notes for a course of undergraduate lectures on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex and an essay called " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in both of which Greek tragedy is the primary object of attention . |
| 25 | Outside , a camera-strapped tourist haggles before he hands over some notes for a photograph of a mother lost in a dome of ragged blankets and the two children who peep out behind her . |
| 26 | Bills , while being a relatively liquid asset , generate some income for a bank . |
| 27 | I want this building for a garage . |
| 28 | So I went out , to find some sticks for a fire , and got myself lost . |
| 29 | I usually have some sympathy for a player who is dismissed simply for being over-aggressive , but I draw the line when this aggro is carried out on a fellow team mate . |
| 30 | She needs some money for a ticket . |