Example sentences of "a [noun] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college also has a course for physically or mentally handicapped students which is free to those registered disabled , Ribber Courses for double bed machines and another on panelled skirts and shadow pleats . |
| 2 | I 'll speak to Bonard before we go about a refund for tomorrow and Friday . ’ |
| 3 | He was fascinated by the corset which gave her a youthful figure and set about reproducing it.In 1968 , they invented the Wonderbra which has been a best-seller for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | CAPENHURST 's sports and Social Club committee has presented a cheque for more than £330 to the Good shepherd Hospice in Chester . |
| 5 | a creditor for more than £750 has served on the company a demand for the sum due , and the company has for three weeks failed to pay the debt ; |
| 6 | Mrs Froggatt organised bring and buy sales to raise cash for the organisation , but after she 'd sent off a check for more than three hundred pounds she heard nothing more . |
| 7 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 8 | ONE OF the most luxurious hotels in the North-East is being rented from a council for less than £350 a week . |
| 9 | I need to do a CV for tomorrow and basically have n't a clue about structure or content . |
| 10 | In 1989 , at Glasgow University , the organisers of a symposium on Soviet Rock could n't find a venue for more than one concert . |
| 11 | Well certainly I do n't think at this point there is a need for more than one settlement . |
| 12 | The evidence , scrappy though it is , gives no hint of a meeting for more than two years , between the autumn of 1170 and the end of 1172 when they held their last Christmas court together at Chinon . |
| 13 | Even if you could , you would n't be able to organize a meeting for more than three people because this is the maximum number you can fit in the user-defined fields . |
| 14 | The French expedition guides were determined not to be defeated by the River Coruh , rated as one of the ten best white water rafting rivers in the world , and I was determined to stay in a raft for more than 20 seconds . |
| 15 | ALONG with six million other householders , I 've been unable to use a hosepipe for more than two years because of a drought order . |
| 16 | The delivery of a request for further and better particulars is not a condition precedent to the making of an order for them , but the failure to make a prior request is a ground for refusing the order : Ord 6 , r 7 . |
| 17 | Pleadings close 14 days after service of defence , reply or defence to counterclaim , even though a request for further and better particulars is outstanding . |
| 18 | Buying a ticket for less than £2 , I joined hordes of Chinese families on a Sunday cruise to Cheung Chau island . |
| 19 | So obviously you do n't expect me , a devotee for more than 40 years , to knock it . |
| 20 | You can get a fine Bonnard print for £2,500 ; a Pissarro for less than £7,000 . |
| 21 | Yesterday , Norman Lamont presented the bill for that cleverness , with a demand for more than £10,000 million a year in extra taxation from 1995/6 onwards . |
| 22 | A No Claims Bonus of 7.5% is being introduced for members in the Republic of Ireland where no claims have been made under a policy for more than 12 months . |
| 23 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 24 | Thus , a lease for less than three years may be validly created on an informal basis , provided that it is for a market , as opposed to a " peppercorn " , rent . |
| 25 | ‘ I could not possibly consider such a commission for less than five hundred roubles . ’ |
| 26 | She worked as a councillor for more than ten years and has campaigned on issues such as the environment , recycling , and nuclear dumping . |
| 27 | The Rector and Mrs Chamberlin , Lady Pemberley , Mrs Burrows and Harry , a tribe of Langleys , George Langley on his own several times , and a host of others Alexandra had never seen , but to whom Aunt Emily had been a fixture for more than 50 years . |
| 28 | The second raid was a diversion for now that raiding was becoming more organised , full use could be made of feints and diversions to distract defenders from intended targets , and in a wider strategy the whole policy of raiding would involve a major distraction of the enemy towards an invasion of Norway , not France . |
| 29 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |
| 30 | As a member for more than 35 years I well understand the reasons for it , but I am inclined to the view now that one impartial professional body would be a far better umbrella organization . |