Example sentences of "an [noun] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 2 | But most of all it was just an excuse for an orgy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And it was an excuse for an evening out . ’ |
| 4 | Some antelopes have been recorded fleeing at 42 miles an hour for a mile , or 35 miles an hour for 4 miles , and deer have been able to sustain 30 miles an hour for an astonishing 20 miles . |
| 5 | Last week a Durham City vehicle took 25 minutes to answer an emergency call in Bishop Auckland , and recently a woman in Upper Teesdale had to wait over an hour for an ambulance . |
| 6 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |
| 7 | Coun. Mrs Toward said her son had also waited an hour for an ambulance after being injured in a car crash . |
| 8 | A parliamentary committee in 1799 considered there to have been between 4,000 and 5,000 women working at copper mines , but this was an overestimate for an enumeration of 1838 , after a considerable expansion , counted 4,526 . |
| 9 | I am a walker and often enough would just meander through the parish of an afternoon for an hour or so — many of the people would say hello and stop for a word . |
| 10 | The first time a UK manufacturer has won an award for an ICN product . |
| 11 | Earlier this year she won an award for an outstanding contribution to theatre writing.Her husband Jeremy has paid a moving tribute to his wife , in a statement he said , She was to quote Wordsworth , ’ My heart 's best treasure ’ |
| 12 | The counsellor can be the ‘ facilitator ’ of group formation ; or merely provide an opportunity for an individual to enter an already established group . |
| 13 | Appointment of GALs in secure accommodation applications is not only a major challenge of the Act , but is a significant change from previous practice , as it provides an opportunity for an independent investigation . |
| 14 | The first of these summit meetings took place at Geneva in November 1985 ; it provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on the progress made at the arms talks and on regional issues . |
| 15 | Is there an opportunity for an offshore trust structure to be applied to the vendor 's advantage ? |
| 16 | ‘ I have never known a patient wait for 10 hours for an ambulance for an inter-hospital transfer — and I hope never to know it again , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ( 8 ) To authorise an applicant for an emergency protection order to return a child to a person without parental responsibility where it is safe to do so ( s44(11) ( b ) ( iii ) ) . |
| 18 | ( 9 ) To authorise an applicant for an emergency protection order to search for another child on the same premises ( s48(4) ) . |
| 19 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 20 | The objectionable characteristics Marx finds in alienated work are , almost all of them , as much present in work done by a self-employed person as in work done by an employee for an employer . |
| 21 | Parliament itself could substitute an act for an earlier one . |
| 22 | At that hearing , Nigel Gilmour QC for the hospital , asked for an adjournment for an independent report . |
| 23 | Archbishop William Temple when headmaster of Repton had a complete mental recall of Bradshaw and would set as an imposition for an errant boy the best way of travelling from Great Yarmouth to Exeter or Penrith to Ipswich without touching London , complete with changes and times . |
| 24 | The transactional test of market counterparty relates only to the particular transaction concerned and applies where a person deals with the firm as a principal or as an intermediary for an unidentified client ( or , alternatively , an undisclosed intermediary ) , if he does so in the course of investment business of the same description as the investment business the firm is carrying on with him . |
| 25 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 26 | There was the same mission to conquer land with gold replacing milk and honey , a wagon-train exodus , a plethora of heroes with a policy of taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth . |
| 27 | Request : that eternal campaigner for true justice was asked if he would consider writing a foreword for a book titled ‘ An Eye For An Eye , A Tooth For A Tooth ’ . |
| 28 | She is intelligent , sensitive , and has an eye for an elegant fabric . |
| 29 | Then , through a loudspeaker , the mother told cheering neighbours in Palermo , Sicily : ‘ An eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth and nudity for nudity . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Then you are familiar with the saying ‘ an eye for an eye . ’ ’ |