Example sentences of "for a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 2 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
| 3 | ANOTHER strong trade of 1,140 sheep at Ballyclare saw an easier trade for hoggets but still an excellent demand for well fleshed sorts which sold to a top of £49 per head for a pen of Suffolks from W Taggart , Doagh , and to £48.50 for four crossbreds 24kg presented by Mrs H Porter , Newtownabbey . |
| 4 | Sheep , with more than 1,000 on offer , sold to £39.50 for a pen of Charollais at 25 kg . |
| 5 | Together with capital grants for such temporary woodland fencing ( which could also benefit from some publicity ) there is no significant financial disincentive for a farmer in fencing and regenerating on-farm broadleaved woodland . |
| 6 | Computing , being a popular science for many , innovates in the vernacular such as ‘ hack attack ’ for a storm of computer hackers while California delivers its own ‘ valspeak ’ for inhabitants of the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles . |
| 7 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 8 | It was built for a neighbour of Henry Royce . |
| 9 | Like Henry , for a dream of empire ; but his dream was a pageant in the sun through a conquered land , over soil alien to him , among people speaking a language he knows , perhaps , but not his own ; and mine is of a country preserved and perpetuated , peopled with my own blood , speaking my native tongue , and the work is to be mine , and the fruit for David and for Wales , after I 'm gone . |
| 10 | A kitchen needs something like 10 to 15 changes of air an hour when it is in use , which means , for example , that for a 3m × 2.5m kitchen an extractor fan with a capacity of around 250cu m/hr is needed . |
| 11 | Recently , the society offered to give its building to New York City in exchange for a revision of status entitling it to city-provided operating funds . |
| 12 | Scotland had trailed 3-8 at the break , Murray Thomson and Jason Williams exchanging penalties — the latter was to fail with seven other goal kicks — and Robert Appleyard crossing for a try from Jon Evans 's tighthead strike , Iestyn Lewis 's ruck provision and the linkage of Huw Harries and Quinnell . |
| 13 | NEW LEVEL , winner of the £20,000 Regal Scottish Derby at Shawfield , is on target for a crack at Dunmore 's Guinness National Sprint next August . |
| 14 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 15 | ‘ So , perhaps a really cynical person would conjecture that you need the money that caddying for a golfer like Harley , who is obviously back in form and on the verge of some big wins and big money , would bring . |
| 16 | About this time , the Reichmanns divested themselves of their English Properties company in London for a profit of £90 million . |
| 17 | I went downstairs to the phone in my dressing-gown , pausing only for a second outside Toby 's door to listen for the typewriter , which was silent , and for another moment outside Mavis 's to leave her snuff-box . |
| 18 | They rested for a second on Todger , who was doing his best to look cherubic , then on Evelyn . |
| 19 | Riven rubbed his sword hilt with a white thumb , thinking for a second of Madra pressing against him . |
| 20 | Bicker shrugged , but his eyes flicked over the fire for a second to Riven . |
| 21 | The electoral rules also provided for a second round poll for county list seats in counties where the first round turnout was less than 50 per cent , and allowed for such a second poll to be valid provided that turnout exceeded 25 per cent . |
| 22 | Official results from the country 's first multiparty presidential elections held on Jan. 24 recorded that the incumbent President since the 1984 coup , Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya , had won 62.75 per cent of the votes cast , giving him outright victory without the need for a second round run-off scheduled for Feb. 27 . |
| 23 | Joyce let go of Eva 's hand for a second in order to see better . |
| 24 | The two heavies spin round to see four lethal-looking blacks gliding swiftly from the limousine , and they both freeze for a second like cowboys ready to draw . |
| 25 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 26 | The frisson of angry surprise and the instant impulse to prepare for a resort to arms which greeted the inevitable puncturing of those myths were therefore emotions I could neither share nor understand . |
| 27 | I had got over a particularly traumatic childhood and adolescence and looked set fair for a modicum of stability as an adult . |
| 28 | On Tuesday 14 June , " representatives of the girls in the composing department of the printing trade , attended to address our [ i.e. WFL ] members " , and on 25 August a deputation went to see the employers and called for a Board of Trade enquiry . |
| 29 | Failure on the part of a candidate to return work as required will be a sufficient reason for a board of examiners not to take the work into account in determining the results of a candidate . |
| 30 | I 'll buy for a cost of bottles of his favourite beer Grosche |