Example sentences of "for [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well I 'll do my best and if er if they 're stuck for somewhere with a leaf then er we 'll send them round . |
| 2 | While some agreements in this area might not endure for long during a war , others might be more effective ( Towle , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | The use of a petrol block on a diesel engine is not a problem as the parts are exactly the same The problem is with the crankshaft The diesel unit is of forged steel and carries a ‘ D ’ stamped on the web of the crank The petrol version , whilst sharing exactly the same dimensions is marked P and it is made from cast iron and will not run for long in a diesel unit — as you have discovered Some military petrol engines however are fitted with the forged steel crank and these will fit and run in diesel units |
| 4 | Subtle but damning variations of idiolect are unlikely to count for much in a country where people go around wearing tee-shirts inscribed with things like ‘ The essence of brave 's aerial adventure : the flight 's academy of the American east club with the traditional gallery of Great Britain diesel ’ . |
| 5 | But he proved , when he joined the illustrious band of Yorkshire bowlers to take 1000 wickets for the county , that experience and craftsmanship still count for much in a game which seems to reserve its greatest acclaim for the lean , young gunslingers . |
| 6 | The FRED retains the proposal made in the Discussion Paper , which was supported by the majority of respondents , that convertible debt should be accounted for entirely as a liability until such time as it is actually converted , in preference to methods which seek to reflect the dual nature of convertible debt as part liability and part equity . |
| 7 | So you can go for longer without a tint . |
| 8 | Although he engaged in some pastoral work in the years after his ordination , preaching and hearing confessions , his time was spent almost entirely in the papal civil service and , until the appointment to Germany for just over a decade , almost entirely in Rome . |
| 9 | She 's been with them now for just over a month , and Angelica has never known a worker like her . |
| 10 | From here you walk north-east following forest paths and tracks for just under a mile . |
| 11 | Ella Bembridge , for once without a cigarette in her mouth , worked as stoutly as the men , and would have forced her way into the building to collect some of Dimity 's treasures if she had not been forbidden to do so by Harold , who had taken charge with all the ready authority of one who had spent his life organising others . |
| 12 | Possessed for once by a spirit of happy hilarity , the Indian crowd unhitched the horses from Mountbatten 's carriage and dragged it through the streets ; British officers were lifted shoulder high and cheered . |
| 13 | ‘ City of Truro ’ was in light steam for the last time on the WSR as a static exhibit but upstaged for once by a host of traction and ploughing engines , vintage vehicles and other displays ! |
| 14 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 16 | In the States it would be preferable to do a set number of smaller theatre-type places , rather than slogging round for ever as a support band . |
| 17 | Edinburgh University , they 'll take copies of them and keep them there for ever as a sort of reference museum . |
| 18 | Thirdly , there is a concern to explain to the Community that if there are to be compensations , we can not create a whole new system of compensatory payments which will last for ever at a price which will never be able to be paid . |
| 19 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 21 | However , we will have to leave this for now with a sense of pessimism , because we will find no way forward until we have got to grips with forces other than production change which , very much in interaction with production change , are constitutive of civil society and of social being . |
| 22 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 23 | He quickly engineered the overthrow of the Conservative and Anglican majorities on the town council and the school board and put in place a political machine which carried all before it for well over a decade . |
| 24 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
| 25 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 26 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 27 | FOR good or ill , D'Oyly Carte has meant Gilbert and Sullivan for well over a century . |
| 28 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 29 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 30 | Government grants to local authorities have now been paid for well over a century . |