Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the local cats were , without exception , well-fed and cared for , and there was n't a needy creature for miles round . |
| 2 | It 's a downhill race for cover |
| 3 | Mulching is a pleasant activity for October . |
| 4 | The dinner was a pleasant opportunity for members to catch up with each other 's news . |
| 5 | He said work had just begun on the Rockwell site where landscaping and planting should encourage wildlife and provide a pleasant outlook for people living on the nearby new housing estate . |
| 6 | This can be a two-way flow ; a good home base can help to create contentment , and at the same time personal satisfaction in life will feed back into the home and make it a pleasant environment for others . |
| 7 | What was it exactly that made Masailand such a pleasant place for members of the British Colonial Service to be ? |
| 8 | Despite the Midland 's many failings , it is still a rich prize for Hongkong Bank . |
| 9 | That the phetam was unguessably valuable , a rich prize for criminals . |
| 10 | Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years . |
| 11 | A rich car for Paradise Street ; he looked at it curiously , noting the number automatically . |
| 12 | Figure 2. 12 shows a rich picture for part of a district health authority . |
| 13 | All that changed , however , when he realised a rich talent for spin bowling was in danger of going to waste . |
| 14 | [ International reaction to the economic blockade , a Franco-German initiative for negotiations , and Prunskiene 's quest for foreign aid and recognition , will be covered in the May News Digest . ] |
| 15 | Cement and concrete would be extensively used in a geological repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes . |
| 16 | These generally refer to finding a self-indexing function for tables in main storage ; Jaeschke has developed a method originally proposed by Cichell , and he has shown that , however complicated the key sequence is , a self-indexing function can be found for up to 40 keys so that they fit exactly into a table with the same number of storage positions . |
| 17 | Debbie Beckerman at Transworld has bought from agent Jane Judd the memoirs of jockey Lester Piggott , to be written with his daughter , journalist and television presenter Tracy Piggott , as the third title of a three-book deal for Partridge Press . |
| 18 | I hope that my new home will be very much a friendly place for others . |
| 19 | To compute this new value without recourse to graph paper , the following formula can be used : For example , a hypothetical value for December 1983 is given by ( 3 × 45.2 ) — ( 2 × 46.7 ) or 42.2 ( data derived from figure 9.9 ) . |
| 20 | The combination of a massively-expanded market for Ecstasy and a shortage of supply has led to Ketamine making its first appearance on the British black market . |
| 21 | I personally never rated Ickx as a driver or as a human being and Regazzoni , though a great step upwards from the slick gigolo type that Ickx liked to play , like a second-rate understudy for Jean-Paul Belmondo , always struck me as stronger on brawn and stubbornness than on brain . |
| 22 | ( Jones and Kodras , 1986 , p. 52 , suggest a more economic interpretation , involving the white population attempting ‘ to preserve a low-wage labor-force for agriculture and labor-intensive industries by , among other things , ensuring that welfare programs present no viable alternative to labor in the fields or factories ’ . ) |
| 23 | On taking office last year he told his men they must drop their ‘ vested interests ’ — a polite term for rake-offs from gambling dens , short-stay hotels and other sinful activities in Bangkok . |
| 24 | The advanced study of History demands far more than a retentive memory for facts or an ability to describe fluently the course of an historical event . |
| 25 | BARRISTERS could retain much of their monopoly over advocacy in the higher courts under a subtle agenda for discussion spelled out by Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , as he opened the Bar 's annual conference in London at the weekend . |
| 26 | However , the Willard Leroy Metcalf ‘ East Boothbay , Harbour ’ ( lot 3 est. $300–500,000 ) though rather flat , was a good Impressionist picture and sold to a private buyer for $300,000 ( £187,500 ) . |
| 27 | Coker 's joke lot , a former gents ' lavatory with river views in Putney , was sold to a private buyer for £7,500 . |
| 28 | Highlights included an Ayra carpet ( estimate £18–25,000 ) sold for £38,000 ( $66,880 ) to a London carpet dealer ; a pair of George II walnut side tables , circa 1745 ( estimate £20–30,000 ) bought by a private buyer for £30,000 ( $52,800 ) ; a William and Mary walnut and marquetry cabinet on stand , circa 1695 , estimate £15–20,000 , bought by a private buyer for £22,000 ( $38,720 ) . |
| 29 | The Frederick Carl Frieseke nude on the McDonough cover ( lot 24 est. $300–500,000 ) spurned a tough economy with a $360,000 ( £225,000 ) final bid , as did the somewhat more sophisticated Richard Edward Miller ( lot 44 est. $150–250,000 ) going to a private buyer for $200,000 ( £125,000 ) . |
| 30 | Highlights included an Ayra carpet ( estimate £18–25,000 ) sold for £38,000 ( $66,880 ) to a London carpet dealer ; a pair of George II walnut side tables , circa 1745 ( estimate £20–30,000 ) bought by a private buyer for £30,000 ( $52,800 ) ; a William and Mary walnut and marquetry cabinet on stand , circa 1695 , estimate £15–20,000 , bought by a private buyer for £22,000 ( $38,720 ) . |