Example sentences of "[is] a [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the Norton Disk Doctor can perform miracles on a dodgy hard disk and there 's a utility for repairing data files . |
| 2 | In both cases there 's a facility for storing data , for performing operations according to some sort of program , and for telling the operator the results . |
| 3 | There 's a case for bringing back those old style Tory values . |
| 4 | I think there 's a case for considering purchase . |
| 5 | Oh , she 's a bugger for going in my drawer after Polos . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a device for making pictures quickly , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 7 | And there 's a car for towing caravans and . |
| 8 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 9 | It 's a euphemism for dusting , but of course it never works out like that . |
| 10 | And that 's a picker for picking horses feet out with . |
| 11 | that 's a letter for looks like a card smells nice |
| 12 | Electrophoresis is a technique for identifying the protein and enzyme constituents of the blood by placing the samples in a gel of starch or agar and applying an electric current . |
| 13 | Matching objects one — to — one is a technique for checking whether one set has more or fewer objects than another , or the same amount . |
| 14 | ‘ Politics ’ , he said , ‘ is a technique for resolving contradictions and confrontations . ’ |
| 15 | A pneumatic tyre makes less impact on a lawn than a solid tyre , and is a must for moving very heavy loads . |
| 16 | If , as Le Corbusier suggested , a house is a machine for living in , cluster housing is a machine for not being murdered in . |
| 17 | And this is a way for to fill up our purse Although we do get it with many a curse And the poem ends : Then hay for the Clothing Trade , it goes on brave ; We scorn for to toyl and moyl , nor yet to starve . |
| 18 | It wants to make sure that everyone knows what harassment is , that harassment will not be tolerated and that there is a procedure for dealing with the problem . |
| 19 | The example below is a procedure for printing a " status " message at line 23 . |
| 20 | In the world of men , robbery is an operator for it is a procedure for turning men with money in their pockets into men without , and vice versa . |
| 21 | Where voters have different tastes ( e.g. , with respect to public goods ) or different endowments , then their preferred fiscal policies are likely to differ , and voting is a procedure for arriving at a collective decision . |
| 22 | Planning is a service for implementing strategy not creating it . |
| 23 | Ah yes , they said , the man in charge up there is a legend for landing his plane in appalling conditions and absolutely ridiculous places . |
| 24 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 25 | A corporate or business plan is a scheme for moving from a present position to where an organization wishes to be to meet its objectives . |
| 26 | Although there is a preference for appointing his successor in that field , candidates whose interests lie in Physical Geography will be considered . |
| 27 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | The first is that , with the consumer being the main culprit in the spending boom which led to the current difficulties , there is a case for shifting the tax burden from industry to individuals . |
| 29 | Bob Morgan , spokesman for education on the Liberal Democrat side , do you see that there is a case for abolishing local control of schools and having the schools under the Department of Education ? |
| 30 | Can we conclude that despite our reservations about Hick 's presupposition that all religions believe in the same God , there is a case for seeing a common theistic structure among many of the world 's religious traditions ( or at least those that have any idea of God at all ) ? |