Example sentences of "an [noun sg] for [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least they have won an election for their seats on the council . |
| 2 | Russian nationalism , an official ideology in the late Tsarist period and still very strong today , helped to create an attitude towards the West which combined an admiration for its prosperity and efficiency with a deep contempt for its petty-mindedness and commercialism : a ‘ peculiar amalgam of love and hate ’ , as Isaiah Berlin has described it , combining intellectual respect and envy with emotional suspicion , hostility and contempt . |
| 3 | The systematic inversion practised by the hypocrite is brought out by Shakespeare , almost with an admiration for its trickery . |
| 4 | It was something to do with what she had discovered in her exploration of the trophy-room — a grudging respect , an admiration for his courage and integrity , for his sheer will to survive . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 6 | I 'm being an idiot , ’ she said , glad that Jean could find an excuse for her stupidity . |
| 7 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 8 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 9 | Those who make and operate the laws of copyright seek both to safeguard the integrity of a work and to ensure an income for its writer . |
| 10 | Erm do you believe if , if we erm oh I think we 've already covered that bit right so if I put erm come up with a erm a recommendation that would provide erm an income for your wife in the event of your death erm is there any reason why we ca n't look at this ? |
| 11 | Bearing this in mind , together with the further possibility of reprovisioning the redesigned space station using Russian rockets , NASA 's review team is considering an orbit for its station that would be inclined at 51.6 to the equator — the sort of orbit that can be reached from the launch sites the Russians use . |
| 12 | He grabbed two goals and signed as an apprentice for his home club . |
| 13 | In 1839 he succeeded Stephen Rigaud [ q.v. ] as reader in experimental philosophy ( physics ) at Oxford , becoming responsible not only for a well-established course but also for an extensive collection of apparatus with an endowment for its development . |
| 14 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 15 | This was achieved by repeating one noun in the indirect antecedent condition as in the following : Ed wanted an alligator for his birthday . |
| 16 | Linking these sentences requires the inference that Ed received an alligator for his birthday . |
| 17 | An MoT for your bicycle |
| 18 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 19 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 20 | You can follow this treatment with a face-pack , or wait half an hour for your skin to settle down and apply your usual moisturiser . |
| 21 | My wife and I waited over an hour for our meal last night and it 's been the same throughout our stay . ’ |
| 22 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 23 | High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire-based Insignia Solutions Ltd was recognised for developing its widely-used SoftPC program that emulates the MS-DOS environment used on the IBM personal computer on incompatible Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes , and workstations from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp ; and S&S International Ltd , Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , gained an award for its Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which employs fuzzy logic to combat the most complex computer viruses . |
| 24 | Ewan 's new company , Accolade Business Systems , of Govan , Glasgow , are among the exemplars of employment practice and yesterday received an award for their efforts in the field of hiring disabled people . |
| 25 | The band , tipped to win an award for their video Friday I 'm In Love , were forced to cancel a planned satellite link-up from London to LA at the last minute . |
| 26 | At this year 's Brighton carpet exhibition in February , Lyle Carpet , was the proud winner of an award for their Flirtations Collection of tufted carpets . |
| 27 | He had won an award for his Glaxo house magazine . |
| 28 | He did acknowledge that he had won an award for his rugby since the incident in September , 1991 . |
| 29 | 17 You 've been given an award for your services to natural history . |
| 30 | ‘ It provides a sense of belonging to a fairly sympathetic world , and an opportunity for its occupants to make out of that world something personal to themselves . ’ |