Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , like I was saying , any jumped-up little nerd can come along , work on a route for a month and get it wired , then go down in the book as one of the greats . |
| 2 | Most of the ingredients were taken from other fields and disciplines , but the achievement was to meld these into a way of thinking , both theoretically and methodologically , so that one , the latter , could provide a route for a more effective formulation of the other , namely , theory . |
| 3 | He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is . |
| 4 | The second way in which the discussion of Russia is significant for the relation of Marxism and anthropology is that Marx 's interest in traditional peasant communities became less theoretical and more practical , as he considered the possibility of the Russian peasant commune becoming a base for a future revolution . |
| 5 | Could you buy in quite a bit of fresh fish , say ten portions if you plan to have ten fish meals in a month , so that there is always good healthy protein food available as a base for a meal ? |
| 6 | If you own a microwave oven , jacket potatoes take very little time to cook yet form a base for a tasty meal ( add tuna , beans , sweetcorn , cottage cheese or whatever low-fat filling takes your fancy ) . |
| 7 | Occasionally pasta or rice is used as a base for a meal rather than potatoes . |
| 8 | ‘ The recommendation by arbitrators is not a reflection of the true economic situation and thus can not be a base for a solution to the conflict , ’ said Rudolf Seiters , Interior Minister . |
| 9 | The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality . |
| 10 | Use Campbell 's Condensed Cream of Tomato soup to give richness to chilli or curry sauce , or as a base for a quick pizza topping , for instance with some herbs , mushrooms , peppers and salami . |
| 11 | Here you launch straight into a 120ft free abseil to a sea-washed rock platform , which serves as a base for a splendid two-pitch wall climb , finishing with a joyous ( and solid ) jug-pull , poised above the sea . |
| 12 | Further U-Boat attacks and the discovery of a German plot to use Mexico as a base for a possible attack on the USA , brought armed intervention in the war on the Allied side in April 1917 . |
| 13 | Villagers believe that a proposed gypsy camp could serve as a base for a terrorist attack on a military college in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Water quality manager at Essex Water John Devall yesterday said the main part of the plant was for pesticide removal although the company was making a provision for a nitrate removal plant . |
| 15 | Det Sgt Norburn , of the Yorkshire force said : ‘ Anyone who is going to take a holiday in Greece can play their part by keeping a lookout for a child with a shock of white hair and a friendly disposition . ’ |
| 16 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 17 | Norman birdied the 11th , coaxed home a six-yarder for a two at the 13th , and surged ahead with a two-shot swing coming on the next green . |
| 18 | The information collected by this standardized set of questions was then presented to a clinician for a diagnosis . |
| 19 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 20 | In 1990 the Sunday Mirror and Sporting Life ran a competition to win a racehorse for a year ; the horse was a two-year-old colt by the name of ‘ Battle of Britain ’ . |
| 21 | Its shape resembles a mouse with a cable for a tail and buttons for eyes . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's nice to see a young lady what knows her way around a kitchen for a change . |
| 23 | Soviet specialists also maintain that neutrality or neutralisation would anyway be a regression for a ‘ socialist ’ state such as Vietnam . |
| 24 | Is it a function for a start . |
| 25 | He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity . |
| 26 | Pay about £45 a case for a wine from the Classico hillsides and it can be a revelation . |
| 27 | Stephen Stich ( 1983 ) presents a case for a syntactic theory of mind which is more radical than Fodor 's . |
| 28 | There might even be a case for a standardised calculator to be used in all A , AS and GCSE examinations nationally . |
| 29 | There was undoubtedly a case for a small increase in numbers for the benefit of both divisions of the court . |
| 30 | They currently co-operate well on an informal basis but there could be a case for a more formal liaison such as was seen in Germany . |