Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And within a couple of hours he was pitched into a trial outing for a place in Liverpool 's opening Premier League match at Nottingham Forest on Sunday . |
| 2 | Erm , what happens if a client has , has established er , a Covermaster Plan for a selected period , and then for whatever reason , has a need to increase that cover . |
| 3 | Locating a census return for a household in a rural area is a relatively straightforward task , but those historians who are investigating a large Victorian town may at first be overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of the material . |
| 4 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 5 | Figure 5.3 is a decision tree for a hypothetical development project to develop and market a new product . |
| 6 | Figure 5.3 is a decision tree for a hypothetical development project to develop and market a new product . |
| 7 | And if skills associated with the new technology are specific to a particular occupation rather than to a firm , why should either employer or employee prefer a long-term contract with one employer rather than a consultancy contract for a particular piece of work ? |
| 8 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 9 | It is , however , unrealistic to plan a teaching session for a busy day when operations and doctors ' rounds are in full swing . |
| 10 | A MOVE is being made to form a support group for a hospice . |
| 11 | Her crew were all rescued , but it was discovered that the Delima was not , in fact , a water-carrier , as had originally been claimed , but a support ship for a massive fleet of between 60 and 130 Taiwanese drift-net vessels , fishing for albacore tuna along an area of oceanic upwelling known as the Subtropical Convergence Zone , stretching across the South Pacific in a narrow 300-km ( 200-mile ) band from south of the Cook Islands to south of French Polynesia . |
| 12 | Thereafter , apart from a small private income , he subsisted on a university pension for a further ten years , during which time he produced the bulk of his philosophical works , at that time largely unknown , until in January 1889 all creative work ended abruptly with his mental breakdown ; he died in 1900 . |
| 13 | The selection of a building contract for a particular project is unfortunately often left too late to allow proper consideration of matching the contract to the job . |
| 14 | I 've done everything from working on a building site for a week and promising to bring me cards in and giving a false name , to er potato picking erm doing hay , anything . |
| 15 | A building lease for a term of more than forty years , where the lessor is not a public body , is freely assignable even if it contains a qualified covenant against alienation ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 , s19(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 16 | What the deaf people of Liverpool needed was their own building , so in 1876 , Healey started a building fund for a new institute . |
| 17 | As Graham Bowstead says , when dealing with a defence document for a company threatened with takeover , the whole process from receiving the raw information to issuing the proofs has to be condensed into less than one day . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal had ruled on July 30 , however , that the execution of five of the convicted be delayed while a defence motion for a new hearing was heard . |
| 19 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 20 | Prepare a computer schedule for a typical working day when the systems described in 5.2.5 are available to Oxford University Press . |
| 21 | BUYING a computer system for a single hotel or restaurant , or for a chain of units , involves far more than ordering and taking delivery of powerful foxes loaded with clever software . |
| 22 | The NAO , the taxpayers ' representative , said that by 31 March last year records of loans amounting to £21.3 million were incorrectly transferred out of a computer system for a considerable period . |
| 23 | For a start , there was the fountain , about the height of a squat sundial , and crowned by a lily ; you turned on a tap , pumped energetically on a foot pedal for a minute or two , and water gushed pleasingly from the lily 's gaping mouth . |
| 24 | The EC 's overseas aid directorate has given conditional approval to a funding proposal for a southern African ivory trading centre , which would flout the existing provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 25 | This must strike a chord with anyone who has just taken possession of a modern house with a postage stamp for a plot of land . |
| 26 | Skywalk : a brand name for a sole with a good tread pattern and grip . |
| 27 | Vibram : a brand name for a traditional tough and heavy-duty patterned sole which wears well . |
| 28 | No one , not even a baker hunting for a thief , would think of looking there . |
| 29 | CLEVELAND Ambulance has been attacked for charging a pensioner £162 for a 36-mile journey . |
| 30 | For instance , he 'll write a guitar part for a guitar strung with six E strings , just the same note all the way across the neck . |