Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to win a champagne evening for two at the Good Old Days . |
| 2 | Engineering seniors will be conveyed , by limousine , to a country mansion , where a major chemicals supplier has laid on fireworks and a champagne supper for favoured customers . |
| 3 | In this position , the glider is on a base leg for any available field upwind and it is easy to look back and decide whether returning to the field is practical . |
| 4 | Waterproofness : this tent was used as a base camp for ten days and experienced all sorts of weather conditions . |
| 5 | But he maintained the government would not be providing extra money for SSDs to help establish a provision system for these young people , who are technically still children . |
| 6 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
| 7 | Thus individualism , egoism and a brute struggle for social superiority emerged once again , leading ultimately to the supreme tyranny of the god-kings . |
| 8 | This is a Physics tutorial for secondary school students . |
| 9 | A stock culture of the wild-type flour beetle ( Tribolium castaneum ) and one of the pearl eye type flour beetle ( see address p. 60 ) ; 1.5 kg bag of wholemeal flour ; 80g dried yeast ( Four small 20 g sachets ) ; two containers for the stock cultures ( large jam jars or ice-cream cartons ) ; several small containers for the breeding experiments-the best are 25 mm × 75 mm specimen tubes , but you can use test tubes , old aspirin bottles , or any glass or plastic container of similar size ; fine muslin or similar fabric for covering the mouths of the containers ; rubber bands ( four large and several small ones ) ; a kitchen sieve for separating insects from the flour ( about twenty meshes to the inch ) ; a small jar containing methylated spirits ; a medium-sized water-colour paint-brush ; a good hand-lens ( × 8 ) . |
| 10 | She could have been a kitchen maid for all we know and your children … |
| 11 | The project will use the cotton industry of Troyes as a case study for this purpose , to throw light on the strengths and weaknesses of French industry . |
| 12 | From the basement casino through the ground-floor restaurant to the top-floor penthouse , it was little more than a money pit for any out-of-towner with an expense account . |
| 13 | Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford . |
| 14 | He has been a branch representative for many years since being elected to that role in Queen 's Square . |
| 15 | She has been a member of the Dublin Ladies ' ( now Women 's ) Committee since 1990 and has been a branch representative for 8 years . |
| 16 | In January 1953 Holford-Walker , the former Moran Officer , arrived in Kajiado with orders to muster a Masai force for anti-terrorist operations in the Aberdares . |
| 17 | A T-SHIRT may hold a clue to the ‘ cab driver ’ rapist who kept a mum prisoner for 16 hours . |
| 18 | Once data re published on the sequence of a gene responsible for antibiotic resistance , it will be a relatively easy task to design a PCR test for that gene . |
| 19 | RNA was extracted with guanidinium thiocyanate ( RNAzol B , Cinna Biotex , Friendwood , Texas , USA ) and electrophoresed on a formamide/agarose gel for 12 hours at 35 V before transfer to a nitrocellulose filter . |
| 20 | California faced a budget deficit for 1991/92 of $14,300 million , the largest in the history of any state . |
| 21 | However the US Congress approved a budget allocation for fiscal 1990 of $60,400,000 , the same amount as the previous year . |
| 22 | MIDDLESBROUGH Council leader Mike Carr called on the Government to introduce a 100pc rebate for those least able to pay the poll tax . |
| 23 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 24 | the need for the DHA purchaser to hold a contingency fund for problematic health-related community care placements ; |
| 25 | There was also a felt need for mutual protection against the changing nature of strikes , which were becoming organised and coordinated rather than being spontaneous reactions ( Oechslin , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | A letter outlining the proposal was sent to some 35 Christian Aid partners and theologians , mostly in the Third World , to establish whether there was a felt need for such a course . |
| 27 | This insecurity , along with a felt need for some stable focus of emotional security , can be seen in responses to the sentence-completion test item ‘ more than anything else he/she worries about … ’ |
| 28 | erm I mean I did a teaching initial for foreign language course at the the university |
| 29 | You can now use the command to " *EXEC " the file back into BBCBASIC(Z80) You can use this technique to produce a text file for extensive editing in PipeDream . |
| 30 | Set up by Arnold Simanowitz over ten years ago , the charity provides a support service for any lawyers who subscribe , in particular in the areas of recommending experts . |