Example sentences of "an [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of the residences have electric razor sockets in the rooms , conference guests are advised to bring with them an adaptor for use in a light bulb socket . |
| 2 | Hence , repression by CytR relies on contacts to both the DNA and the cAMP-CRP complex , and cAMP-CRP may be regarded as an adaptor for CytR . |
| 3 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 4 | B. The managers consider that the ports are an advantage for transport . |
| 5 | If the garage is more than 5m from the house , it is treated as an outbuilding for planning permission purposes . |
| 6 | In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president . |
| 7 | The referendum was accompanied by an election for president : Danquah chose to oppose Nkrumah . |
| 8 | Both Aitken and Stanley Baldwin had an admiration for Law that bordered on veneration . |
| 9 | they were nothing but an excuse for idleness ; twelve hours being too many for a man to work underground without intermission . |
| 10 | Very few of those people work at Stansted Airport and I 'd suspect that living in Stansted Airport would n't be an excuse for building new housing . |
| 11 | In the meantime discontent with the Central Office — which was mostly an excuse for discontent with the leadership — continued to mount . |
| 12 | Indeed , combined with the elevated notions discussed above , has been an intellectual imperialism for the ‘ primitiveness ’ perceived in such peoples becoming an excuse for colonialism and extermination . |
| 13 | If she will never be able to hide under the beauty of her image clusters , at least she will never bore us with the undergrowth of psychology and metaphor , where art is an excuse for waffle . |
| 14 | Exclusiveness can be pretentiousness ; amateur status can sometimes be an excuse for shoddiness and inefficiency ; addiction to antiquity can result in obscurity and a tedious nostalgia . |
| 15 | So far as they were concerned traders and sailors who had been blown off course were pirates ; and in the range of activity between purely peaceful traders and pirates who were ready to attack ships of any nation there were some traders who were prepared to use force to make Spanish ports deal with them , and others who were willing to appear to use force in order to provide Spanish settlements with an excuse for trading . |
| 16 | In the modern world , sport has become at once a symbol of supposed supremacy , a means of keeping healthy , an opiate for the hopeless and the unemployed , an excuse for jingoism , and perhaps most of all , a source of considerable income . |
| 17 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |
| 18 | One commented that the use of economic information ‘ can often be an excuse for inaction ’ ! |
| 19 | But this in no way negates the importance of understanding the role which all these people play in the context of curriculum change , for while the picture of an obscurantist inspector or manager eager to discourage the innovative teacher is one which is often conjured up by teachers themselves as an excuse for inaction , it can be all too true . |
| 20 | This has given both IBM and Brooks Brothers an excuse for inaction and a means to avoid the critical self-examination that is vital to every business . |
| 21 | Even the Government have recognised the need for reform , although the review which they commissioned in 1990 , which has yet to report , appears to have been an excuse for inaction . |
| 22 | Self help groups may also be used as an excuse for lack of government support , and a general philosophy of self help may lead to deprived people being blamed for their plight . |
| 23 | Ninety per cent of accidents are caused by people going too fast and there is never , never an excuse for speed . |
| 24 | I wish that I had time to go more deeply into the Government 's failure to tackle the root causes of crime in our communities , but suffice it to say that neither unemployment nor lack of a decent home is an excuse for crime . |
| 25 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 26 | Though the doubt is really an expression of not-being-committed , it passes itself off as an excuse for not-committing . |
| 27 | But this was an excuse for confrontation rather than a cause . |
| 28 | In a telling phrase Lord Scarman argued : ‘ The social conditions in Brixton do not provide an excuse for disorder . |
| 29 | It was almost as if he was using their past acquaintance as an excuse for familiarity . |
| 30 | D' you think you 're the only one in the world with an excuse for hatred ? |