Example sentences of "a [noun] for [noun] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CHEQUE FOR £2,000 was recently handed over to the guide Dog for the Blind Association at the Shell/Esso Gas Plant at St Fergus . |
| 2 | Commentary : the procedural requirements for making a recommendation for deportation are well established . |
| 3 | It helps to have a high IQ , though I suspect a talent for mimicry is more useful ; being able to adopt at will the tones and attitudes of the educated middle classes . |
| 4 | A plan for London was long overdue . |
| 5 | The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) . |
| 6 | The focus could no longer be primarily domestic and , indeed , there liability of the Economic Survey as a basis for planning was seriously undermined . |
| 7 | It has been observed by others that housewifery as a role for women is more positively evaluated in traditional working-class communities than in middle-class social networks . |
| 8 | A role for micro-organisms is now being sought in many conditions such as coeliac disease , in which the results have , to date , been negative . |
| 9 | Four years later Agate was surprised that the film version of J. M. Barrie 's A kiss for Cinderella was so good and in particular that the acting of the American star Betty Bronson had equalled the stage performance of Miss Hilda Trevelyan for what the latter had done with her voice ‘ this little screen actress does with her eyes , which are the windows of as lovable a soul as was ever born into the world of make-believe . |
| 10 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 11 | A concern for animals is also to the fore in the classic text of W.M.S. Russell and R.L. Burch ( 1959 ) , The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique . |
| 12 | Historians may have drawn gender lines too sharply , but the view that apprenticeship as serious industrial training towards mastery of a craft was overwhelmingly a path for males is essentially correct . |
| 13 | Where issues of supervision are involved , the necessity for practice at the Bar as a qualification for office is much harder to sustain than in relation to trials and appeals involving review . |
| 14 | NEGOTIATING a holiday for teenagers is extremely delicate work . |
| 15 | A high level of linguistic competence is obviously an advantage but a flair for friendship is more important than an impeccable accent or a perfect lexicon . |
| 16 | In Burgundy , there is evidence that suggests the vine was well established as early as pre-Christian times , and that wines with a reputation for excellence were soon being produced . |
| 17 | The Roman poet says , ‘ dutce est desipere in loco ’ , ‘ an opportunity for indiscretion is sometimes pleasant ’ . |
| 18 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |