Example sentences of "[adj] and a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Talk of catastrophe is popular and a money-maker for authors and publishers . |
| 4 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 5 | The entire site is well wooded and a sanctuary for badges and a profusion of primroses , wood anemones and bluebells in the appropriate seasons . |
| 6 | She was diabetic and a cause for concern . |
| 7 | He rose further under the Commonwealth , becoming a commissioner for compounding and a JP in 1650 and a commissioner for indemnity in 1652 . |
| 8 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 9 | More money was soon made available and a plan for expansion drawn up by an official from the BBC in London . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | That is demeaning , uneconomic and a recipe for disaffection . |