Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask for a Parcelforce Claim Form , at a post office counter , or call your local Customer Care Unit who will send you one . |
| 2 | Tried to cross the nighted ferry ; might 've made it but for a district-nurse calling unexpectedly . ’ |
| 3 | Examples of the satisfaction gained ranged from ‘ being able to use condition scoring techniques to monitor feeding of the ewes ’ to ‘ being able to undertake major welding repairs and construct an ‘ A-frame ’ structure for a roof'' . |
| 4 | for a satin box of buried treasure — the feel of a fontanelle , buttocks |
| 5 | ‘ Care to join me for a snifter , old boy ? ’ he said , buttoning on his chamois leather glove with the hole in the thumb . |
| 6 | No matter how you achieve it you need expanded memory for a spreadsheet such as SuperCalc or a DOS version of Lotus . |
| 7 | Not big enough for a Walkman — lumpy bulges , not square . |
| 8 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |
| 9 | In this method , the phase difference between the phases from the normal and anomalous scattering in the structure is estimated by measuring Bijvoet pairs for a reflection at two or more wavelengths . |
| 10 | How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ? |
| 11 | Plaintiffs must supply their own set of words — a bare demand for a retraction is insufficient to defeat the privilege . |
| 12 | The co-producer is Russell 's wife , Annie , who has long considered Stags And Hens a suitable vehicle for a film : ‘ I badgered Willy into it ’ . |
| 13 | Precisely because relationships are so fragile , it 's in the planning stages , when a bundle of ideas and concepts are hammered out into a script , that the battle for a film is won or lost . |
| 14 | Trouble is , all the while he 's aiming to reap the monetary rewards American society generates for a film such as Hardware . |
| 15 | Voyager is perhaps an unfortunate title for a film that all too often fills the screen with beautifully crafted pictures from glossy holiday brochures . |
| 16 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 17 | He began writing these experiences for a film and when he produced his manuscript it was partly autobiographical . |
| 18 | That was a real-life experience , not acted for a film . |
| 19 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 20 | Sound and presentation are also acceptable for a film licence and the basic design behind the game is perfectly plausible . |
| 21 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 22 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
| 23 | HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO IN THE NAME OF FAME — WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR HAIR SHAVED OFF FOR A FILM OR VIDEO ? : |
| 24 | If it was for a film and it was a good part , then yes I would . |
| 25 | He said he would ask Sir David Attenborough to help her , which he did by checking out her agent and saying he would look out for a film part for her . ’ |
| 26 | FOR a film that has stood the test of time , catch Luis Bunuel 's Oscar-winning DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE ( Cert 15 ; Selected ) . |
| 27 | Warner and Wallis would have judged that the time was ripe for a film about human justice , that there would be a market for a film depicting the problems of a strike in a coal-town and in an ethnic community , and that any criticism of the subject-matter would either be good for business or would be offset by popular and critical acclaim for the acting of that increasingly marketable star Paul Muni . |
| 28 | Warner and Wallis would have judged that the time was ripe for a film about human justice , that there would be a market for a film depicting the problems of a strike in a coal-town and in an ethnic community , and that any criticism of the subject-matter would either be good for business or would be offset by popular and critical acclaim for the acting of that increasingly marketable star Paul Muni . |
| 29 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 30 | The fourth prize was awarded to Hungarian Television for a film based on the traditional Way of the Cross . |