Example sentences of "for [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 2 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 3 | The Ledingham-Smiths did not pay the £5,000 a week as required , but did continue the banker 's order for £1,000 a month . |
| 4 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 5 | Although the sale of tiger products is banned in Taiwan , a large and not-very-covert market continues there , where an IUCN researcher recently found tiger bone on sale for $180 a pound . |
| 6 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 7 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 8 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 9 | Section 2(3) states : " Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . " |
| 10 | Less frequent travellers can have a transatlantic pager for £48 a week or £144 a month . |
| 11 | At Surrey the ‘ amateur ’ W. W. Read was employed as ‘ assistant secretary ’ to the club for £250 a year — a post he relinquished when he ceased to play . |
| 12 | For £250 a year , EDI users can subscribe to SITPRO 's EDIFACT Service , which provides a comprehensive guide to implementing the UN/EDIFACT standard , with regular updates as new message types are developed . |
| 13 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 14 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 15 | If there are more or modified synapses , the chemicals and structures of which the synapses are composed must show signs of change , which might be measurable either by biochemical methods ( for instance , an increase in the amount of synaptic membrane protein ) or under a microscope ( for instance a change in the dimensions of particular synapses , or an increase in synaptic numbers ) . |
| 16 | For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age . |
| 17 | A disposition is a very wide term and for instance a transfer out of assets by trustees to a tenant for life although it would not be a transfer of value would nevertheless be a disposition . |
| 18 | The cost equation complicates further because coaxial cable needs only simple connections at each end , for instance a plug to fit a TV set . |
| 19 | For instance a pancake race in Stockton was just what the doctor ordered . |
| 20 | Choose a cake with particular relevance to the child in mind , for instance a pet-owner or animal lover would be thrilled to receive an iced rabbit in a hutch , the frog sitting on its own water lily pond or the ponies in their stable . |
| 21 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 22 | Where the material to be used in enquiry work is audio-visual ( as for instance a filmstrip , perhaps with the accompanying booklet transcribed on to audio-cassette so that the eye can concentrate on the pictures and the slower readers have quick access to the text ) then of course suitable equipment must be available in sufficient quantity for the expected numbers of students at any one time . |
| 23 | Imagine for instance a case where size was influenced by 22 loci , each with only two alleles ( A/a ; B/b ; C/c … |
| 24 | For instance a rite of lifelong commitment for adults or of young people on the verge of adult life who have been confirmed at an earlier age . |
| 25 | For instance a telephone listening service is offered to people in distress by associations such as the Samaritans and Befrienders . |
| 26 | For instance a manufacturer and a wholesaler could enter into a contract for the supply of domestic refrigerators ( consumer goods ) for onward sale by the wholesaler to retailers , while a factory owner could enter into a contract with a manufacturer for the supply of a machine for use in his factory ( commercial goods ) . |
| 27 | For instance a glissando based on the chord of the ‘ added 6th ’ might be desired , such as the following : |
| 28 | Thus there is a move towards active documents , where part of a document ( for instance a table ) can be generated by running a program rather than by being wired in . |
| 29 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 30 | Take , for instance a designer like Montana , whose particular skill is in sculptural tailoring . |