Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad to be given for this talk a problem question — animals and the environment . |
| 2 | A great mimic , he had developed for English society an accent which outclassed the Brits around him . |
| 3 | The best cuts of boar meat sell for five pounds a pound … twice the price of pork . |
| 4 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 5 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 6 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 7 | And we do not need to undergo years of psychoanalysis , or visit a hypnotist , or meditate for twelve hours a day , in order to seek self-knowledge . |
| 8 | Theirs was a marriage blanc ; Harvey was occupied for eighteen hours a day at the Ministry of Transport where he was one of two Parliamentary Secretaries with responsibility for roads . |
| 9 | had dropped by 35% , increasing unemployment and ending for many farmers a link with the land which stretched back many generations . |
| 10 | On average , Butler and his staff cook for 800 people a day and all the chefs have an input when it comes to menu suggestions . |
| 11 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 12 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 13 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 14 | Such cases could be met by adopting for civil cases a procedure similar to the Attorney-General 's reference in criminal proceedings . |
| 15 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 16 | I went back to work for two days a week in December when Isha was six months old . |
| 17 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 18 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 19 | Arber and Ginn ( 1991 ) estimate from these data that the average co-resident carer cares for 52 hours a week compared with 9 hours for an extra resident carer . |
| 20 | In 1903 the Poplar Guardians leased for one year a new workhouse specifically for the use of able-bodied men . |
| 21 | For the most part , though , the Review concerned itself more with establishing for English studies a status similar to that of the humanism of classical studies , than with criticism . |
| 22 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 23 | The Court found on the facts that it did not need to pronounce upon whether the provisions relating to the Gex Zone created a stipulation in favour of a third party , but warned that the existence of such rights should not be lightly assumed : each such claim must be separately examined to determine ‘ whether the States which have stipulated in favour of a third State meant to create for that State an actual right which the latter has accepted as such ’ . |
| 24 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 25 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ’ the foreman said , ‘ what do you expect for eighty bucks a week ? |
| 27 | Finally , there are plans to provide custodians a sore point to enable the churches to open for two hours a day . |
| 28 | If the coil is positioned for maximum output an offset adjustment equal to the mean magnitude of the field is required , but need be no more complicated than an offset bias to the following amplifier input . |
| 29 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 30 | Boots says a supply of alkaline batteries for a personal stereo used for four hours a day , five days a week over a year will cost about £90 , while rechargeable batteries and a charger cost from £18 to £27 ( from selected branches of Boots ) . |