Example sentences of "for [noun] of a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked for signs of a faith more supernatural , less conventional , more revolutionary . |
| 2 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 3 | In Kinross Motor Auction Ltd. v. Perth and Kinross District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. 106 , a petition for the exercise of the nobile officium for review of a decision under 5.14 was refused . |
| 4 | Rory had waited with the older man — silent for quarter of an hour apart from a whispered hello and a quick explanation of what was going on — until the herd of deer appeared , brown shapes on the brown hill . |
| 5 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 6 | But in principle it seems inexcusable to penalise the company for breach of a duty not owed by it but by its directors and intended to protect , among others , the company and its members . |