Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 2 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 3 | But he warns that the ideas of civil association and enterprise association can not be understood as complementary characteristics ; they each stand for an independent , self-sustaining mode of association . |
| 4 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 5 | Dr Brice Pitt comments in Making the Most of Middle Age : ‘ So much publicity is now given to the art of making love , what men and women need from each other , and how to please your partner , that there is little excuse for a dull , unimaginative sex life even in the supposedly stolid middle-aged . ’ |
| 6 | One effect of the early deadline was that some teachers claimed that their reports had to be rushed and that there was little opportunity for a considered appraisal : |
| 7 | Since there is little support for a temporary return to a Premier Division of 16 — this arrangement , of course , would deny the city clubs income generated by extra matches against Rangers and Celtic — a league set-up of 14-12-12 is on the cards for 1993-94 . |
| 8 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 9 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 10 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 11 | However during 1960–3 there was some support for a British Commonwealth non-military space programme . |
| 12 | Even if the government did not wish to take this opportunity for a full reform to a fair voting system , the extra six seats offered the chance of creating a more proportional system by creating a so called additional member top up to ensure under represented views gained their rightful place in Europe . |
| 13 | This hope for a natural quality in portraits , however , is frequently disappointed , since many sitters are eager to be flattered . |
| 14 | Ship visit : HMS Sirius , a Leander Class frigate , will arrive in Hartlepool this afternoon for a six-day visit . |
| 15 | When the anxiety upper limit is reached it will remain at this level for a certain time . |
| 16 | Moreover , it follows from this necessity for an absolute sovereign , that an eventual transfer of allegiance is inevitable when the ‘ sovereign ’ fails to govern , and keep the civil peace . |
| 17 | ‘ Get me an appointment with your hairdresser this instant for a hair-dyeing job ! |
| 18 | I have used the sketches of gulls in flight to compose this study for a vertical composition — a gathering around food . |
| 19 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 20 | Another term for a repeating design , which some experts have suggested is symbolic of eternity and the all pervading presence of Allah . |
| 21 | We argued in this chapter for an interactive model of these two kinds of processing rather than for a model in which syntactic and semantic analyses are carried out independently . |
| 22 | Hold on to this tension for a slow count to five , then let your feet relax and become limp as you breathe out with a sigh . |
| 23 | Lightly tense a given group of muscles ( as listed below ) and hold this tension for a slow count of five while holding your breath . |
| 24 | ANOTHER recommendation for a good but economical hairdresser this week mentions Janet 's Unisex Hair Salon in Grangetown , Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | Neither William Hartnell , Maureen O'Brien nor Peter Purves appeared in this episode for a complex set of reasons traceable right back to ‘ Planet of Giants ’ . |
| 26 | This programme for a natural religion has its own importance as making explicit something which is often enough assumed , but has been heavily criticised in much modern theology — the idea that religion functions chiefly to safeguard the good ordering of society . |
| 27 | Yeah half term for a nice week . |
| 28 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 29 | This search for a medical solution , then , may present a serious threat to civil liberties . |
| 30 | While this search for a physical basis to the UFO phenomenon has been continuing , there has been parallel research into another aspect . |