Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 2 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 3 | PRESIDING over the collapse of one of America 's largest newspapers has been a humbling experience for the Tribune Company , a Chicago-based media group that is proud of its reputation for tough management . |
| 4 | Although each version is intended to serve pedagogical needs , neither one provides a pedagogically-based rationale for the selection of themes that it proposes . |
| 5 | to the British summer game next … cricket … and a historic day for the City of Hereford … for the first time ever Herefordshire are playing in the Minor Counties League … they opened their innings against Devon today |
| 6 | In a statement on June 21 Ahmed Jabril 's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command described the US decision as " a historic opportunity for the PLO to conduct a stringent , critical review of its policies " and called on Arafat to return to the policy of armed struggle . |
| 7 | What is being contemplated here is the rape of a pleasant environment for the sake of a short term cash gain . ’ |
| 8 | It is an ambling Irish field painted in broad , sweeping shades of green ; a rich green for the trees , a lighter green for the grass . |
| 9 | Plenty of steps , most of them with a rich reward for the climber , such as those that lead to the Lindenhof . |
| 10 | So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it . |
| 11 | Dan always had a friendly welcome for The Press . |
| 12 | But these are hard times for Moroccans , what with a $22 billion foreign debt , a depressed market for the country 's main export , phosphates , and the after-effects of a long drought . |
| 13 | The problem does not arise where the review takes place on the assumption of a hypothetical letting for the residue of the actual term . |
| 14 | A trying time for the resource person . |
| 15 | An attempt by Pateman to negotiate a tripartite arrangement for the payment of Whiteley 's salary by the LEA , the Cambridge Board and the WEA also failed . |
| 16 | It recommends a three-stage process for the formation of monetary union . |
| 17 | A rainy-afternoon refuge for the children or just a wonderful place to relax — whatever the weather ! |
| 18 | I worked with him on Queen 's Visit and then recently for the Royal Yacht visit to Leith ( partly as a dry run for the summit ) at the time of the June Scottish Financial Enterprise International Conference . |
| 19 | Lord McLaren at p309 stated : It seems to me that in such a case the deduction would be no more claimable than in a case where an individual partner having money in many concerns chooses to employ a private secretary for the purpose of keeping an account of his income and his expenditure . |
| 20 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 21 | At the head of the municipal square is the City Hall ( Câmara Municipal ) which was built as a private residence for the Conde ( Count ) de Carvalhal at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | The exhibition opened for a private view for the members of both Houses of Parliament on Friday , 1st May and Saturday , 2nd May , 1857 , and the public were admitted on the following Monday . |
| 23 | A private garden for the use of hotel patrons runs down the water 's edge and there is a wonderful view of the Sea of Moyle stretching beyond to the shores of Scotland and the Western Isles which can be seen on clear days . |
| 24 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
| 25 | Zen flashed his identification with contemptuous brevity and then allowed a little time for the mechanic 's fear to be fruitful and multiply . |
| 26 | It is also true to say that the minister ( man or woman ) is central in ensuring that the funeral service is a memorable event for the family by helping them to begin to understand their grief in the context of the church 's care for them . |
| 27 | It was a memorable return for the man who seemed to have ended his career a convicted cocaine user in Naples . |
| 28 | In assessing why an apparently average side like Warwickshire made such a persistent challenge for the Championship last year , one thing stood out . |
| 29 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 30 | We bought er a solid door for the front . |