Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 2 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 3 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 4 | ‘ Criticising my age is like a footballer going for the man rather than the ball . |
| 5 | During the ninth century a struggle developed for the souls of the Slavs between the two Christian confessions , the Eastern Church based in Byzantium and the Western Church based in Rome . |
| 6 | A popular edition is a version of a text intended for the general rather than the academic reader . |
| 7 | Highlights will include an istoriato plate depicting the ‘ Sack of Rome ’ , made in Urbino between 1527 and 1530 by Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo ( est. $100,000–125,000 ; £62,500–78,125 ) , an armorial istoriato charger illustrating ‘ Orpheus charming the animals ’ of around 1520 ( est. $80,000–100,000 ; £50,000–62,500 ) and a tondino made for the Vitelli family of Città di Castello around 1530 ( est. $50,000–60,000 ; £31,250–37,500 ) . |
| 8 | Winger Gareth Pratt , signed from Rochdale amateur club Mayfield , bagged a debut try for the home team after David Hill and Mike Blakeley had also crossed . |
| 9 | Mrs Bessie Forde , then a member of the choir , recalls how any girl actively interested in church life could spend the week : Monday evening the Junior and Senior CE Societies ; Tuesday and Thursday evenings the GLB company , led by Mrs Waugh and Miss Mildred Forsythe , met regularly in Edenderry ) ; Wednesday the Midweek service ; Friday the choir practice and on Saturday a prayer meeting for the services on Sunday . |
| 10 | Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time . |
| 11 | Ketotifen , a drug used for the prevention of asthma , was found to decrease significantly the extent and severity of experimental colitis in two rat models . |
| 12 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 13 | Dr Martin Johnson , a scientist speaking for the MRC , said the council spent £5 million last year on embryo and related research to help the 275,000 couples in Britain who have fertility problems at some time . |
| 14 | A scientist working for the plaintiffs placed the chemical in water . |
| 15 | CICS/6000 is really a CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor from Transarc Corp . |
| 16 | Lisa Sutcliffe , Christopher Filtock , Iain Cropper and Hayley Waller with a certificate awarded for the school garden |
| 17 | Blows were exchanged between members of the audience somewhere at the front and the whole scene developed into a riot , with others not wishing to get involved in a fight scrambling for the exit . |
| 18 | As I had suspected , we were the only folk rash enough to have booked into a cow shed for the night . |
| 19 | The handsome admirer , said to have called Diana ‘ Squidgy ’ , crunched his company car as he tried to dodge a photographer working for The Sun . |
| 20 | Then , unexpectedly , he invited Brian and me to stay in Northumberland where he had taken a grouse moor for the summer ; thereafter we went each year until he died , first to Otterburn and then to Wark . |
| 21 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 22 | He stopped short of issuing a blanket backing for the Tories , saying he would vote Liberal Democrat in his own east London constituency because he still believed in proportional representation . |
| 23 | If class members want to operate a savings scheme for the Festival and Week-end Course , please encourage them . |
| 24 | John Garmston Hopkins died at Belmont House , Worcester , on 22 January 1871 and his father commissioned Francis Charles Earl of Worcester Broad Street to immortalize the lad in a photograph destined for the churchyard memorial . |
| 25 | Stay at Goulding 's Lodge , a ranch built for the set of the movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( this , remember , was John Ford country ) and surrounded by high open desert . |
| 26 | Javed Miandad 's XI was unchanged , but England had a side tailored for the imagined needs of Leeds , Russell , Malcolm and Salisbury making way for Ramprakash , Pringle and Mallender , with Newport ( less than full fit ) and Childs left out of the squad of 13 . |
| 27 | In Kaszubia , Mazowia and Silesia the peasants referred to themselves as Kaszuby , Mazury and Slęzaki rather than as Poles : Polak was a term reserved for the Polish nobility . |
| 28 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 29 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 30 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |