Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 2 | Shall I do your top one for you ? |
| 3 | Clearly there is a connection , if Eurofighter two thousand was available earlier then they the plan for replacing er some of the aircraft in the R A F's front line er could be adjusted accordingly erm but it 's not a sort of direct one for one er if the part of the programme slips a year the jaguar must go on an extra year because within the R A F's overall plans for its er fleet replacement there is a certain degree of flexibility an and precisely which point the jaguars get replaced is er a judgement between them and their three . |
| 4 | Moreover , this story is a painful one for me to tell . |
| 5 | You could have made it a very unpleasant one for me , but you did n't . ’ |
| 6 | The technique may be a taxing one for us as readers , but it ensures that in seizing on details , we shall not lose sight of the ramifications of the whole . |
| 7 | He slumped into the chair at the end of the table and ordered a servant to bring in a similar one for his nephew . |
| 8 | Why had he returned to a milieu which he must have known was a dangerous one for him ? |
| 9 | I thought it was a very difficult and dangerous one for us to start out with . |
| 10 | No English-speaking child learning to spell … would write ket for [ kaet ] ; the distinction between [ ae ] and [ e ] is an absolute one for him ( since otherwise he could not distinguish , for example , man from men ) … |
| 11 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ If we book a separate one for me , ’ she pointed out , ‘ I may have to show my passport . |
| 13 | This would appear to be a herculean task for the relatively efficient and an impossible one for everyone else . |
| 14 | The year has not been an easy one for our Italian business . |
| 15 | Gedge fixed it for his parents to watch the show from the wings . |
| 16 | Their egg is an unusually large one for their body size and has a generous yolk . |
| 17 | If insufficient moots are organised , try to get a law teacher or barrister to judge a private one for yourself and friends . |
| 18 | It may indeed be out of date in that it was yesterday 's intellectual fad , but the positivist position I have outlined seems the only possible one for someone who is seeking new laws , and new ways , to describe the universe . |
| 19 | Has he chosen the right one for you — or the right one for him ? |
| 20 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 21 | because I did n't think she was the right one for him , I would n't have picked her I 'd 've picked somebody else |
| 22 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 23 | You need to find the right one for your skin type . |
| 24 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
| 25 | Has he chosen the right one for you — or the right one for him ? |
| 26 | And the right one is among them , the right one for you , that is . |
| 27 | And remember , just because a lender brings out a loan with the ‘ professional ’ as its target market , this does not mean that it is necessarily the right one for you , no matter what your taste in trousers . |
| 28 | Which suncream is the right one for you ? |
| 29 | ‘ Paul 's not the right one for you , any more than Dave was … ’ she 'd said bluntly . |
| 30 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |