Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] for [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the liability of a landlord for defects in the premises . |
| 2 | The second type of individual headhunter was the practical , down-to-earth type with more management experience at different levels than the blue-bloods , who identified the existence of a demand for skills in senior recruiting but who was not pretentious or elitist about it in any way . |
| 3 | He is noted in Treasury records from 1671 as a member of a number of official commissions , notably as a commissioner for appeals in excise . |
| 4 | Merck , the US pharmaceutical company which discovered that this drug — originally developed as a treatment for worms in animals — could have a beneficial effect in humans , has made it available in West Africa free of charge . |
| 5 | In order to support herself , her daughter Eliza , and her son Orlando , she took up numerous , often very short-lived pursuits , including the superintendence of schools , translating , colouring prints , working in her brother 's shop in Penzance , running William Godwin 's Juvenile Library , and working as a governess for families in London and Lee Mount , Cork . |
| 6 | Councillor Murphy works as a caretaker for flats in Coatbridge . |
| 7 | The move was widely regarded as a victory for reformers in the party , as the enlarged membership embraced members of the business community , intellectuals and a number of former dissidents . |
| 8 | The move was widely regarded as a victory for reformers in the party , as the enlarged membership embraced members of the business community , intellectuals and a number of former dissidents . |
| 9 | The laboratory 's Spallation Neutron Source ( SNS ) will provide facilities for several hundred British and other scientists to use neutrons as a probe for studies in physics , chemistry , and biology . |
| 10 | These areas are ( i ) the organization of licensing , censorship and other similar forms of control , and the struggle against these ; ( ii ) the organization of the market , both in its aspect as a trading area whose purposes , in expansion and profit , may often be in conflict with otherwise dominant political and cultural authorities , and its aspect as a mechanism for commodities in this especially sensitive field , where inherent calculations of profit and scale may impose tensions with other conceptions of art and , at a different level , impose its own new forms of commercial controls ; and ( iii ) the uneven and changing relations between a received and always to some extent recuperated ‘ popular ’ ( largely oral ) culture and the new forms of standardized and increasingly centralized production and reproduction . |
| 11 | Seconds deducted from a rider 's overall time , generally as a reward for places in sprints at the end of a stage or in the intermediate ‘ primes ’ , sometimes called ‘ rushes ’ . |
| 12 | Lisa Adam 's fingers were n't always so nimble in her job as a packer for Lanes in Gloucester . |
| 13 | Only worth growing as a substitute for waterlilies in shaded or running water . |
| 14 | We are acting for the above named in connection with a claim for damages in respect of injuries sustained in a [ ] accident . |
| 15 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 16 | Based on a syllabus for children in their first year of English , Wizadora helps the teacher conjure up a rich learning experience from the basic elements of language covered at primary level . |
| 17 | At White Hart Lane , we were fleeced by a tout for tickets in the East Terrace . |