Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a second a steely ambition shone through before the softer political face returned . |
| 2 | For a child a hundred years ago , the family was likely to be an extended one , including aunts , uncles , cousins and grandparents as well as parents and siblings . |
| 3 | In 1887 Lyons ran a stall at the Liverpool exhibition , selling for a shilling a combined microscope-binocular-compass which he had invented . |
| 4 | And wh y'know we thought about this for a y'know a long time t and what we do want is a thin tier of bureaucracy . |
| 5 | By selecting for a sample a definite " quota " which reflects the proportion of different types of people in the target population , which can , of course , be the whole population , we have , prima facie , reason to assume the sample as representative . |
| 6 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 7 | As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog . |
| 8 | Harlow should of applied for a designation a long time ago if Harlow had been designated then surrounding councils would have had to live up their responsibilities to provide adequate sites for travellers which they have not done and successive governments have also failed to apply the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight adequately . |
| 9 | For a moment a guarded expression crossed his face . |
| 10 | It was like taking a step back into the past , and for a moment a little shiver ran down her spine . |
| 11 | All there is in this thunder is not relief but a revival of ‘ aethereal rumours ’ which ‘ only at nightfall … / Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus . ’ |
| 12 | Waves of compassion and outrage fuse with delayed feelings of self-pity for her own plight , and society seems for a moment a huge conspiracy to exploit and oppress young women . |
| 13 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 14 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 15 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 16 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |