Example sentences of "for [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |
| 2 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 3 | Alcoholic drinks have a significant calorie content ranging from about 50 calories for a small measure of spirit to 70–130 for a glass of wine and 90–130 for half a pint of beer . |
| 4 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 5 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 6 | No sooner had you got used to being able to have the lights on whenever you wanted , than you ( or Dad ) had to trail down to the BP station with a jerry-can in your hand and beg for half a gallon of four-star . |
| 7 | The Guardian was controlled by a family trust , dominated by relations of the formidable owner-editor ( and sometime MP ) C P Scott , one of the great Liberal voices of British journalism for half a century into the 1920s . |
| 8 | He received but scant attention outside his native land for half a century after his death , but then came to be a major force who made a profound impression on both theology and philosophy . |
| 9 | For half a century after Matcham 's retirement his theatres were widely disparaged by architects and others who preferred unbuilt European projects to what the public and theatre profession still prized as ‘ real theatres ’ . |
| 10 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 11 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 12 | The interior of the cave soon admits daylight from a vertical shaft on the moor above , Little Douk pot , and then meanders in darkness for half a mile to its entrance at Middle Washfold , due south over the wall in the next allotment where an isolated outcrop of limestone makes a white scar on the dark moor . |
| 13 | From the viaduct follow the road south for half a mile to the main Enniskillen to Belleek road . |
| 14 | The party of three canoeists , aided by local walkers dragging the canoes , made its way over common land for half a mile to a car . |
| 15 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 16 | It here plunges for half a mile over massive limestone steps in a wide channel flanked by trees : a beautiful sight , always impressive and , in times of spate , awesome . |
| 17 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 18 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 19 | A possession to be treasured and for some a reminder of better times . |
| 20 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | The crisis posed for such a pacifism by the Great War was twofold . |
| 22 | However , some feel that these costs are now too high too often and that the breakdown of a carer , which then precipitates admission to care , is a tragic price to pay for such a choice on the part of the old person . |
| 23 | There were too many pretenders to the weak Syrian throne for such a return to be feasible . |
| 24 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 25 | There is great emphasis on the Church in this Gospel and time must be allowed for such a development of the Church to have taken place ( especially Matt. |
| 26 | The case could , however , have paved the way for such a development in the law . |
| 27 | The parallel with the anorexic process is clear , and the reasons for such a substitution in both cases are probably similar . |
| 28 | A letter was despatched to the secretary there asking the County Hospital authorities to provide an ambulance if , in future , it were necessary for such a case to be sent to St. Peter 's . |
| 29 | For such a system to work , it is argued that ‘ systems politics ’ is required . |
| 30 | Before the generally accepted laws of motion for such a system of particles do not have this property , his assumption is a departure from what we know about physical reality . |