Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no , you get a free one for introducing people , so this |
| 2 | One Sicilian peasant kills another one for seducing his wife . ’ |
| 3 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 4 | In 1629 the Tsar Mikhail severely reproved Louis XIII himself for failing to use his full title in official letters and warned him that " We can not approve your habit of wishing to be our friend and yet denying and taking from us the titles and qualities which almighty God has given us and which we so justly possess . " |
| 5 | The difference between the Voigt and Reuss estimates is and a similar one for shear . |
| 6 | What is the Government 's response to the increasingly strong feeling among disabled people that this measure is not an appropriate one for tackling their now , by common consent , quite shocking employment disadvantages ? |
| 7 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 8 | A blank one for saving your own patterns is supplied with the Design Controller . |
| 9 | The ones you need for plumbing include a small one for tiny grub screws ( on taps , for example ) , a medium-size one ( 100m , say ) for screws on WC cisterns and a large one for screwing into walls . |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't be at home for ever , ’ he had said , feeling it was unfair , and that he had been due something for working . |
| 11 | The long-lived alien 's point of view is the right one for looking at the plausibility of a theory like Cairns-Smith 's or the primeval-soup theory . |
| 12 | Quantities of rooted layers can be produced using this technique , a useful one for replacing ageing heather and lavender . |
| 13 | The argument is that the postclassical perspective is a relatively more useful one for accounting for , and understanding the manipulation of , criminal action . |
| 14 | This theme is a useful one for assessing the quality of a critic 's writing , since it tempts the rash into speculation , while an impoverished eye will miss relevant and useful comparisons . |
| 15 | Figures 3.1 is a familiar , and a very useful one for explaining the financial structure of the NHS in England . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 17 | He was a great one for singing because he 'd sing sea shanties and Irish songs . ’ |
| 18 | She come here , she used to come here with her man , you ken they were tramps , but er she , she was a great one , she used to , she belonged to the West Highlands , and she was a great one for quoting the , the kind of |
| 19 | I 'm a great one for putting a bit of cerulean blue in my green areas , but other painters add other colours , like red . |
| 20 | The pitch , without a blade of grass on it , looked such a good one for batting that the West Indies clearly felt that seven batsmen , even given the recent fallibility of their top order , were unnecessary . |
| 21 | The displays are usually more energetic if the site is a particularly good one for snaring prey . |
| 22 | Her sphere is not just a physical one for lighting a fire and tending the name have emotional and spiritual connotations , too . |
| 23 | Erm and it 's a birthday issue and and a quite an important one for setting up for the Euros and the mail action . |
| 24 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 25 | Is that it for see there 's someone 's milk chocolate pudding , there 's a three plain top one and one with milk , eh . |
| 26 | Er it 's very hard to keep on forgiving somebody for hurting you in the same way over and over again and in this particular example , three times and that 's it . |
| 27 | The law as a profession is regarded as a difficult one for hearing people , and not many manage to become solicitors ; still fewer get called before the Bar to become barristers . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not a big one for trying to work out all the results — there 's no point as you only end up kidding yourself . |
| 29 | WE 'VE had leaves on the line , snow , iced-up points and now BR in the South East has come up with a new one for explaining delays to trains : Heavy morning dew . |
| 30 | Moving an old house a new one for to rear , |