Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 2 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 3 | He paused , as if gathering breath for an ascent up a steep mountainside . |
| 4 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 5 | It has also revealed the terrible nostalgia for an era when the rules of democracy were suspended , and instead military rules were in command . |
| 6 | Our hero then has to cope not only with a lively two year old but also with his burgeoning infatuation for a woman quite a few rungs above him on the social ladder . |
| 7 | The airline for a world where the Wild West meets the Far East . |
| 8 | Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , who had recently received fresh assurances of continued Western assistance for Iraqi Kurds [ see p. 38361 ] , had reportedly insisted on a more ambitious scheme involving autonomy for an area twice the size held by Kurdish guerrillas , incorporating the city of Kirkuk , and a clearer commitment by the government to hold democratic elections . |