Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
2 | The Castle Eden Walkway Country Park was the setting for a woodcrafts weekend . |
3 | Iron Agers : Castle Eden Walkway Country Park is the setting for a woodcrafts weekend today and tomorrow . |
4 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
5 | JOHN Trussler , the president of the Chartered Institute of Building renewed his call to the Chancellor for a Builders ' Budget while in Darlington yesterday . |
6 | He left for Birmingham ahead of the team for a managers meeting yesterday and with coach Jens will be working hard to get the best out of the team against Iceland and against the Czech Republic on Thursday and the USA on Friday . |
7 | This election campaign was , apart from anything else , a good advertisement for the need for a positive-images policy to dispel , maybe not the hatred , but certainly the fear and the ignorance about homosexuality . |
8 | So the company 's SunSelect subsidiary has launched its Wabi software package , which allows Unix-based computers to run Windows applications software without the need for a Windows operating system . |
9 | Yeltsin 's speech also covered the issues of land ownership , the need to counter crime and corruption , for which a group had been formed consisting of Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet , Sergei Filatov , Security Council Secretary Skokov and State Secretary Gennady Burbulis , and the need for an arms law to combat the " blatant pilfering of military property " . |
10 | By enabling LEAs , if they wished , to set up Juvenile Employment Bureaux , this Act laid the foundation for a careers service . |
11 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
12 | Following the resignation of Mrs Lesley Taylor , there is a vacancy in the Library for a Serials Librarian ( Assistant Librarian grade ) . |
13 | Where a university subject of the candidate 's choice has not been allocated a quota award , it may be possible for the Head of Department to nominate the candidate for an appeals award . |
14 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council discussed the application for an entertainments licence by the Priory Restaurant . |
15 | The potential for a KBS approach to complex avionic component fault diagnostics via the use of limited but similar reasoning approaches to those adopted by experienced service engineers has great potential in the provision of intelligent support to equipment diagnostics . |
16 | BRITISH Gas yesterday got the go-ahead for a Monopolies Board prices probe to squash official watchdog Ofgas attacks . |
17 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |