Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Cast ewes also met an excellent trade and sold to a top of £49 each paid to G Robson , Doagh , for a pen of ten Cheviots . |
3 | C J White , Killycarn , received £42 each for a pen of ten correct blackface ewes . |
4 | In the blackface ewe lambs section top price of £50.50 was paid to T McKillop , Glenarm , for a pen of ten horned lambs and store lambs sold , to a top price of £27.80 paid for a pen of 25 Cheviots presented by J McCurdy , Broughshane . |
5 | In the blackface ewe lambs section top price of £50.50 was paid to T McKillop , Glenarm , for a pen of ten horned lambs and store lambs sold , to a top price of £27.80 paid for a pen of 25 Cheviots presented by J McCurdy , Broughshane . |
6 | Crossbred wether lambs sold to £27 paid to B McLoughlin , Aughafatten , and blackface wether lambs sold to a top of £24.50 for a pen of 18 presented by H McMullan , Glenarm . |
7 | Sheep , with more than 1,000 on offer , sold to £39.50 for a pen of Charollais at 25 kg . |
8 | R Gilmore received £36.50 for a pen of 22 kg . |
9 | Aunt Margaret sat on a bank of primroses , naked but for a cloak of brilliant green loosely slung around her shoulders . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | At 400 gamma/mA this calls for a current of 125mA variable . |
12 | It was built for a neighbour of Henry Royce . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It called for a revision of the Prayer Book — and the bishops of that day had no idea how far this call would lead the Churches . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Its prime aim was to consolidate its own power , but it also hoped to centralise and unify the nation and attain to Western standards required for a revision of the unequal treaties . |
17 | Thus the need for a revision of the scientific emphasis : " the activities of the English department … make of it … a university in miniature , a school not of one but many sciences " . |
18 | In giving judgment I recorded , at p. 623 , that there appeared to be no requirement under the rules and no practice to give such particulars in the committal order and called for a revision of the practice which has , I believe , now taken place generally and was certainly followed in M. 's case . |
19 | In addition to 10 minutes at the beginning for reading the paper there must be at least 20 minutes left at the end for a revision of your work . |
20 | The meeting voted for a revision of the Constitution to allow the head of state to appoint a Prime Minister but ruled out the introduction of a multiparty system . |
21 | Turkish maritime experts are warning of the dangers of an increase in oil and gas traffic through the crowded Bosphorus and are calling for a revision of the 1963 Montreux Convention , which guarantees freedom of navigation through the waterway . |
22 | Newlove then dived over for a try of his own , with late scores from Offiah and Schofield rubbing salt in Welsh wounds . |
23 | If the conveyancer for the lessor refuses to delete it , or if you act for a purchase of an existing lease that includes such a provision , you should always explain to your client the nature of the provision , its unusual nature and its disadvantages ( putting off a subsequent prospective buyer or mortgagee , delay and expense in taking up references and obtaining the licence ) . |
24 | The previous record was £8,250 paid in 1988 for a watercolour of the ship . |
25 | TODAY racing followers were also in the money when Pot Luck struck for the second day running with two winning Placepot lines for a profit of over £50 at Doncaster . |
26 | About this time , the Reichmanns divested themselves of their English Properties company in London for a profit of £90 million . |
27 | And to Clare 's delight , she sold the lease of the apartment in which she ran her playgroup — for a profit of twenty-three per cent . |
28 | Riven rubbed his sword hilt with a white thumb , thinking for a second of Madra pressing against him . |
29 | But there 's better news for Oxford fans … the club are in line for a windfall of three hundred thousand pounds which they 're going to spend on new players … |
30 | I had got over a particularly traumatic childhood and adolescence and looked set fair for a modicum of stability as an adult . |