Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately at this point Martin Fleischmann entered hospital for a serious operation which interrupted the project for almost a year . |
| 2 | Branson had arranged to see an advertising agency about Oldfield producing music for a commercial for Dulux paint . |
| 3 | On March 8 , following a visit to CIS states , Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin requested support for a ceasefire from the USA , France and the UK . |
| 4 | WILL DOWNING visits Britain for a special one-off date to promote his forthcoming LP ‘ A Dream Fulfilled ’ on 4th & Broadway . |
| 5 | In the most recent session , which ended on June 30 , 1990 , Brennan secured majorities for a reaffirmation of congressional power to enact affirmative action programmes ; for a ruling that the First Amendment prohibited most political patronage in hiring or promotion ; and for a reiteration of the 1989 ruling that anti-flag-burning legislation was unconstitutional . |
| 6 | My guess is that Swod blames Mills for a lot of the operations that went wrong . ’ |
| 7 | Dustin has been meeting with original director Mike Nichols hatching plans for a table-turning sequel which will feature the ageing Hoffman having an affair with his son 's 16-year-old girlfriend . |
| 8 | In March 1485 he was sent to Portugal to pursue negotiations for a bride for the recently widowed king , and he was thus out of England when Richard III was killed at Bosworth . |
| 9 | Mitterrand wrote articles for a Vichy newspaper before he joined the Resistance . |
| 10 | Once , after a long negotiation , Swire invited Bevin for a drink and a sandwich at the City of London Club , and was reprimanded by the chairman for having brought ‘ a working man into the club ’ . |
| 11 | Tipped as the next Greta Scacchi , Tara looks set for a glittering career . |
| 12 | R Gilmore received £36.50 for a pen of 22 kg . |
| 13 | Hyde hated Jekyll for a different reason . |
| 14 | Examples of the current price differences are : £136 charged by Ford for an Escort Mark III front panel , compared with £54 from an independent supplier — the true cost of making such a panel is closer to £10 ; Peugeot charges £136.50 for a bonnet on its 405 model , £85 from an independent ; A headlamp on a Granada Mark III can cost £106.50 from a Ford dealer , £67 from an independent . |
| 15 | In 1592 Sir Thomas Sherley offered £200 for an office , while two years later he was expressing shocked — but rather unconvincing — indignation at the rumour that he was being paid £4,600 for his own position as Treasurer of the Wars . |
| 16 | The LOB corpus contains information for less than 40,000 types , available MRDs contain information for a larger number of types . |
| 17 | Stephen asked Christina for a splash of rum in his lime squash and Michael Stein followed suit . |
| 18 | Downing Street confirmed plans for a summit of EC leaders were well advanced . |
| 19 | Venables raised £2.5m for a 23pc stake , making him the first man to play for , manage , and part-own a major English soccer club . |
| 20 | Hitachi charges £1300 for a combined VHS playback recorder and 5″ LCD . |
| 21 | It would be a tremendous blow if Boro lost Pears for a game that could guarantee a Premier League place . |
| 22 | Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year . |
| 23 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 24 | Buckhaven manufactures intermediates for a pharmaceutical industry largely unaffected by the recession and the belief within Courtaulds Chemicals is that it can continue to develop rapidly . |
| 25 | On Monday , work will begin on dismantling the railway bridge at Delves Lane and Station Road to make way for a roundabout on the new Consett by-pass . |
| 26 | From Fort William drive north for a couple of miles on the A82 to a golf course on the right . |
| 27 | The ISE has plans for a regulatory news service which will sell information to other news services , but Sir Gordon has criticised the high costs of the service to outside competitors . |
| 28 | Politically , Singapore looks set for a very stable and predictable future . |
| 29 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 30 | Within this ambiguity and unclarity , Shallis sees room for an entirely different approach to the whole question of time . |