Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fans shouted ‘ cut ’ as the star started describing an earlier film , Witness , as exciting and a must for cinemagoers instead of praising his latest blockbuster . |
| 2 | Talk of catastrophe is popular and a money-maker for authors and publishers . |
| 3 | The entire site is well wooded and a sanctuary for badges and a profusion of primroses , wood anemones and bluebells in the appropriate seasons . |
| 4 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) Although the Act does not expressly say so , it is implicit in sections 10 and 11 that a demand for expenses must be served by the local authority before proceedings can be taken to recover them . |
| 6 | Wytch Farm proved more than a match for Savills , the property services and estate management consultants to BPX , during a friendly game of cricket in August . |
| 7 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 8 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 9 | Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ . |
| 10 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 11 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |