Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggested that the military man could contact either a Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart or a Brigadier Bambera for clarification of his position . |
| 2 | The South African government is inviting tenders for two cellular telephone licences it plans to award , with a mid-June deadline for applications : the successful bidders will have to pay the government about $33m upfront for the licence and 5% of turnover in annual licence fees , the Financial Times reports ; Cable & Wireless is expected to bid for one of the licences in partnership with the local M-Net pay television station . |
| 3 | We have developed a PCR test for Helicobacter pylori , and the demonstration of DNA from that organism in the faeces raises the possibility of a stool test for the organism eliminating the need for follow up endoscopy , or the use of radioactive gases . |
| 4 | Lloyds Bank cashed a Gieves cheque for £27,000 , the crew were paid and a crisis averted . |
| 5 | He 's also pleased that the centre is now the base for several local groups including the Women 's Institute , the WRVS lunch club , a mother and toddler group , and the ‘ hobby horse ’ club for eight to twelves which attracts over 20 on a Friday evening for folk songs and dance . |
| 6 | Rather more seriously , he accuses her of being a liar , and claims that large parts of her story ( her autobiography is an international best-seller ) ‘ are not actually true ’ and that ‘ a Nobel Prise for Literature might have been more suitable ’ . |
| 7 | In 1947 Edward Appleton received a Nobel Prize for work on electro-magnetic waves in the upper atmosphere . |
| 8 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 9 | It 's half-past nine on a Saturday evening for Christ 's sake . |
| 10 | Every two years the Medau College holds a Whitsuntide course for Medau teachers and I always find it most stimulating to renew contact with our German colleagues . |
| 11 | Mr Janes ' aviation interest stem from 1987 when he established a Blackpool-Belfast service for Lynx . |
| 12 | UK-based Salford Software Ltd , Salford , is offering a Fortran compiler for Microsoft Corp Windows NT on Intel Corp platforms : FTN77 will be available by the middle of this month — the company claims it will compile 55,000 line of code per minute on a 33MHz 80486 box running developer versions of NT . |
| 13 | Plus Points : Easy to use , maps can be converted to a PCX file for use in presentations . |
| 14 | Plus Points : Easy to use , maps can be converted to a PCX file for use in presentations . |
| 15 | COSE will be doing an executive panel on distributed computing supposedly fleshing out OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment versus Sun Microsystems Inc 's ONC+ versus a COSE hybrid for developers and presumably tackling issues such the proposed COSE-compliant Motif and whether the application programming interface will stick . |
| 16 | Cohen ( 1972 ) presented the Posner task to the left or right visual field and found a RVF superiority for NI matches and a LVF superiority for PI matches , as did Geffen , Bradshaw and Nettleton ( 1972 ) . |
| 17 | CONCERN is growing that a number of stockbrokers will be unable to meet a January deadline for VAT changes which are expected to reduce the cost of share dealing . |
| 18 | Page 29 Broking concern : Concern is growing that a number of stockbrokers will be unable to meet a January deadline for VAT changes which are expected to reduce the cost of share dealing . |
| 19 | Mr Wilson 's hopes that the new group of freshmen Democrats would remain immune to the Speaker 's charms have already been dashed ; last month they lined up behind Mr Brown to defeat a Wilson nominee for superintendent of schools . |
| 20 | Mark Irwin converted a McCullough cross for goal No 8 on the hour and , within 60 seconds , Neil Cooke , with a penalty corner conversion , completed the scoring and his hat-trick . |
| 21 | By the 1920s Frank Hender had bought it and installed a small brass finishing workshop on the upper floor , the lower section being let to a Mr Thompson for shoe stiffening manufacture . |
| 22 | Throughout his career he continued with a series of busts of well-known personalities , such as W. E. Gladstone , Lord Suffield , and General William Booth [ q.v. ] of the Salvation Army , and appealing statuettes , such as ‘ Aphrodite ’ , ‘ The Dancer ’ , and ‘ St George and the Dragon ’ , but more of his time was taken up with monumental sculpture , such as the colossal bronze statue of the Duke of Connaught [ q.v. ] for Hong Kong , those of Queen Victoria for Allahabad and Colombo , Sir William Rose Mansfield , first Baron Sandhurst [ q.v. ] for Bombay , a Cameron highlander for Inverness , and Sir John A. MacDonald [ q.v. ] for the Canadian cities of Montreal , Hamilton , and Kingston . |
| 23 | Cayman System Inc , Cambridge Massachusetts has updated its XGato software for turning a Apple Macintosh into a X-Window client for users of standard server release 2.0 which support colour monitors . |
| 24 | A FLYING lesson turned into a Biggles adventure for instructor Pat Harris and pupil Linda Hunt . |
| 25 | We have n't yet found a UK outlet for Star Trek : The Screen Saver , but no doubt it wo n't be long before it 's beamed over . |
| 26 | Mr Naqvi , a UK officer for BCCI , was married with three children . |
| 27 | Overseas persons are overseas ( or indeed UK ) securities firms ( whether brokers , dealers , banks , or investment managers or advisers ) who do not have a UK office for investment business ( even if they are authorised under the FSA ) . |
| 28 | Sandy Lyle has launched a Stableford competition for club golfers to raise money for the Paul O'Gorman Foundation , which raises money for children with leukaemia . |
| 29 | My computer is still analysing the guest lists to determine whether a Sir Denis Compton for the Tories cancels out a Melvyn Bragg for Labour . |
| 30 | The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 . |