Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 2 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 3 | PRESIDING over the collapse of one of America 's largest newspapers has been a humbling experience for the Tribune Company , a Chicago-based media group that is proud of its reputation for tough management . |
| 4 | Although each version is intended to serve pedagogical needs , neither one provides a pedagogically-based rationale for the selection of themes that it proposes . |
| 5 | to the British summer game next … cricket … and a historic day for the City of Hereford … for the first time ever Herefordshire are playing in the Minor Counties League … they opened their innings against Devon today |
| 6 | In a statement on June 21 Ahmed Jabril 's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command described the US decision as " a historic opportunity for the PLO to conduct a stringent , critical review of its policies " and called on Arafat to return to the policy of armed struggle . |
| 7 | Although modest in scope and requiring Senate and presidential approval before becoming effective , the legislation — known as the " Brady bill " — was of the utmost symbolic importance in that it represented a historic defeat for the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) , one of the country 's most powerful interest groups . |
| 8 | The irony of Buchanan 's attack on ‘ Hooligan Imperialism ’ was that one important way in which the Hooligan figured within the troubled preoccupations of his contemporaries was precisely as a fighting-fit recruit for the imperial armies . |
| 9 | The grey-leaved Helichrysum petiolare , or moss-like lime-green Pyrethrum aureum ‘ Golden Moss ’ , used for a neat edging , will also act as a pleasant foil for the brighter plants that they frame . |
| 10 | What is being contemplated here is the rape of a pleasant environment for the sake of a short term cash gain . ’ |
| 11 | For the border design , I would suggest cream for the background colour , dark green for the ‘ branches ’ and a rich tan for the ‘ foxes ’ . |
| 12 | It is an ambling Irish field painted in broad , sweeping shades of green ; a rich green for the trees , a lighter green for the grass . |
| 13 | I have created a rich architecture for the poor . |
| 14 | So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it . |
| 15 | Plenty of steps , most of them with a rich reward for the climber , such as those that lead to the Lindenhof . |
| 16 | Now Middlesbrough face the formidable challenge of Manchester United in the two-leg semi-final , a rich reward for the only League club firing on three fronts . |
| 17 | They are of no real value , although a Cleric might want to take a heretical work for the restricted library of his temple — this is quite acceptable . |
| 18 | Dan always had a friendly welcome for The Press . |
| 19 | A Japanese example is the surimono , a friendly greeting for the New Year through a drawing and a message which complement each other . |
| 20 | In Honduras , it is again the rich who are providing a friendly environment for the little creatures . |
| 21 | But these are hard times for Moroccans , what with a $22 billion foreign debt , a depressed market for the country 's main export , phosphates , and the after-effects of a long drought . |
| 22 | The problem does not arise where the review takes place on the assumption of a hypothetical letting for the residue of the actual term . |
| 23 | Ascot and Windsor race meetings in the twenties were a trying time for the respectable county town of Reading . |
| 24 | A trying time for the resource person . |
| 25 | The well-anticipated under-$5,000 Sun Microsystems Inc colour workstation that materialised last month as the $4,300 SparcClassic is being depreciated in some quarters as a bait-and-switch box for the more expensive $8,000 Sun LX . |
| 26 | An attempt by Pateman to negotiate a tripartite arrangement for the payment of Whiteley 's salary by the LEA , the Cambridge Board and the WEA also failed . |
| 27 | On June 29 they elected a 31 member Majlis as a representative body for the Crimean Tatar nation and a structure for local self-government . |
| 28 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 29 | Then when the social worker turned her attention back to the traffic , Gilly carefully spread the gum under the handle of the left-hand door as a sticky surprise for the next person who might try to open it . |
| 30 | Phase one would mean moving senior citizens to another part and developing a worship centre , hostel for business women and community centre with day care for children , and a feeding programme for the poor . |