Example sentences of "one [noun] of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't s/he a figure who has exchanged one kind of incompleteness for another ? |
| 2 | Whilst in going to the abbey , I should be exchanging one kind of prison for another , she told herself , I should no longer have to pass my days amongst the remnants of the court ! |
| 3 | I have knitted them on one strip of band for the photograph ( see Sample 1 ) . |
| 4 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
| 5 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 6 | One effect of wiring for trolleybuses was that the two pairs of wires were accommodated in troughing under the bridges at Selhurst and Selby Road . |
| 7 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 8 | The Redcar coke plant is modern , and make one type of coke for use in the steel industry . |
| 9 | Has the Prime Minister one shred of sympathy for Britain 's beer drinkers ? |
| 10 | But there is one glimmer of hope for Becky , who has just started school . |
| 11 | There was one glimmer of hope for Mr Bush . |
| 12 | Such gatherings were called wapenshaws and one test of skill for archers was trying to dislodge a model of a parrot , called a papingo , from the top of a high tree or tower . |
| 13 | On the long rows of stalls are ranged all sorts of fresh farm products — eggs , vegetables , salads , churns of cream , live chickens and ducks — brown Rouen ducks , black Muscovy ducks , white Pekin ducks , turkeys , baby chicks ; one old woman has just one basket of produce for sale — eggs , a few fresh peas , and a bunch of green turnip-tops . |
| 14 | Currently in a six month appointment a house officer may be attached to one team of consultants for three months and then change to a second team . |
| 15 | ‘ It gives the impression that there 's only one sort of comedy for one sort of people . |
| 16 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 17 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 18 | For example , many badger communities use one group of holes for several years , leaving others in the territory to fall into decay , only to uproot and re-open them on a whim . |
| 19 | It is the only instance in British industrial history when the vast majority of the organized working class have given their industrial , financial and moral support to one group of workers for any length of time . |
| 20 | It has been said that if each soil conservationist stopped the movement of one grain of soil for each word he has written on the topic , the problem of soil erosion would disappear . |
| 21 | one quarter of wheat for every virgate of land , in return for their having housebote and paling for their corn , and for collecting dead wood for their fuel in the King 's demesne wood … and from every house a goose and a hen every year . |
| 22 | The LNA launched a dual offensive , attacking both the medical profession and the double-standard on which the acts were premised : ‘ the false idea that there is one code of morality for men and another for women … which has more or less coloured and shaped the whole of our social life . ’ |
| 23 | But earning a living or having the money to be able to continue studying is , I know , just one area of concern for your readers . |
| 24 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 25 | For example , an article in Danas ( 6 January 1987 ) stated : ‘ Up to now we have produced one quality of product for the home market , another for Western markets , and a third quality for the East . ’ |
| 26 | In Panama , 60% of the seeds from the understorey tree , Guarea glabra ( Meliaceae ) , were removed by four species of North American migrants , though there was no evidence that any single bird species was dependent on the tree for nutrition , nor the tree reliant on any one species of bird for dispersal . |
| 27 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 28 | Eat Yourself Fitter : ‘ Do you think that now you are successful you 've merely traded one form of misery for another ? ’ |
| 29 | Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another . |
| 30 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |