Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white official parliamentary opposition Conservative Party leader , Andries Treurnicht , said in a strongly worded statement that de Klerk 's plans for change had plunged whites into " a struggle for our freedom " to defend " our people 's claim to its own country and right to self-government " . |
| 2 | ‘ Instead of manufacturing sulphuric acid as a feedstock for our plants , we can use the acid produced in this way by a power station . |
| 3 | Oh you were thinking oh good that makes a change for our callers |
| 4 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 5 | What we are asking for is a basic human right as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – – the right to participate in society , the right to a future for our children , for our community , the right to a decent job , a real job . |
| 6 | The Dispersionists talked of it being an answer — ‘ the only guarantee of a future for our children ’ — but in practical terms it did nothing to solve the problem of over-population that was supposedly its raison d'etre . |
| 7 | This is a tragedy for our community . ’ |
| 8 | We went , when we were staying in York , we went to erm used to go to a pub for our meals did n't we ? |
| 9 | The construct chain in line A is open to many interpretations , but the phrase a highway for our God' in line B is unambiguous : it must mean a road for Yahweh to wall : along-just as a " highway for the remnant of his people " in Isa 11.16 , and a " way for the redeemed to pass over " in 51.10 are paths for Israel to wall : on . |
| 10 | make straight in the desert a highway for our God . |
| 11 | Here , the " way of Yahweh " ( line A ) has meaning in the sense of " a highway for our God " ( line B ) ; line B then specifies line A. |
| 12 | With the cash to match my pretensions I 'd have been a menace for our Dennis . |
| 13 | You realize when we get married Sue Lindsey 'll get us a cat for our wedding present . |
| 14 | Hitch and Baddeley ( 1978 ) have proposed a model of working memory , developed from what has become the basic modal model in psychology , which gives a focus for our discussion ( fig. 11.1 ) . |
| 15 | This has got to be a record for our group all on one day ! |
| 16 | We 've got a basis for our knowledge have n't we . |
| 17 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 18 | We 've set out the assumptions that erm we used as a basis for our projections in the note in front of you . |
| 19 | The value of exploration is as a basis for our thinking . |
| 20 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 21 | ‘ Northern Foods have announced that former MMB board member Richard Smith will lead their recruitment drive and we have now found a leader for our producer 's partnership . ’ |
| 22 | For a start , we have to think of a name for our child . |
| 23 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |
| 24 | Is that why you refused to name a day for our wedding ? ’ |
| 25 | However there will also be about another 3,000 home tickets on sale to the general public , so if anyone ca n't get a ticket for our end and fancies having a go at getting one of these , then here 's the deal . |
| 26 | The water can be both a barrier to our travel and a pathway for our commerce . |
| 27 | It was a rare warm sunny evening for our first arrival at Kirkwall and a homecoming for our No. 1 Dave Scadding as we steamed into Kirkwall Bay with the little township colourful in the low evening sun . |
| 28 | Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers . |
| 29 | ‘ We want a train for our funpark . |
| 30 | A Toad for our time |