Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture . |
| 2 | In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil . |
| 3 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 4 | Isabel 's eyes closed for a despairing second . |
| 5 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 6 | in a recent sale Rod Stewart 's Lamborghini went for a mere sixty one thousand pounds , less than half what he paid for it . |
| 7 | Jack and Miguel got their pars and it was Harley 's turn to go for a closing birdie to put him well up the leader board . |
| 8 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 9 | Padding behind them were the demolition squads , Corran Purdon 's men held for a tense few moments in the open when every second might draw more fire as they smashed the northern winding-hut door ( 'A' ) . |
| 10 | Seventeen years later the Congregational Union 's Executive called for a Nonconformist equivalent but nothing came of it . |
| 11 | I picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals hoping for a quiet hour or two by the river while they were manoeuvring . |
| 12 | Afterwards Sharon 's stepfather appealed for a concerted campaign to end the spate of car thefts that so often ended in tragedy … |
| 13 | The grin on Turner 's face disappeared for a startled moment . |
| 14 | Today , doctors ' leaders call for a full inquiry into the dangers of brain damage in boxers . |
| 15 | IBM will seek formal X/Open XPG4 base branding for a future release of the OS/400 operating system . |
| 16 | An alternative method of compelling minority shareholders to sell their shares in similar circumstances is to use a Court Scheme ( see para 2.4 above ) if that is appropriate ( where the 75 per cent threshold may be easier to achieve than the 90 per cent threshold required for a compulsory sale ) . |