Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 2 | I respect people 's music , but I do n't give a shit for the people behind it . |
| 3 | The director offered Susan a refund for the £40 she had originally paid and free treatment until her hair was put right . |
| 4 | The Führer ’ had become like a drug for the people , needed for reassurance whenever doubts , worries , and uncertainties began to mount . |
| 5 | Gossamer , slinky , focused , unfussed — what a treat to hear a song that takes its time and does n't give a toss for the bpms and the clubs . |
| 6 | Team nursing in the ward provides a preparation for the staff nurse 's role , which otherwise may be neglected in nurse training . |
| 7 | Ilay did offer to make good Sir James Campbell 's financial loss , but the latter had still not obtained a settlement for the £140 forfeited to Moses Buchanan even in 1739 . |
| 8 | Is he aware that what he achieved , or failed to achieve , might please the little Englanders behind him but will be a tragedy for the people of the United Kingdom and the Scottish part of it through the 1990s ? |
| 9 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 10 | No as I say I have n't got much to lose or anything but I think it 's a trade that is worth protecting and er you know it 's not a trade er it 's a living for the people in n it ? |
| 11 | It is now used as a television relay station and as a sluice for the Fish Dock ( q.v . ) |
| 12 | A hospital is a village for the people who work in it . |
| 13 | An example ( of the format of a micro-instruction for the Data General Eclipse computer , taken from Data General 1977 ) is given in Figure 3.22(a) . |
| 14 | Hence the most obvious case for studying social policy is a need for the staff of the various social services to understand the system in which they operate . |
| 15 | Again , where a contract provides , e.g. , that A shall pay £100 on 1 January next , and if he does not do so , shall pay £200 , Equity would not allow the £200 to be claimed , but treated it only as a security for the £100 with interest . |
| 16 | This is what we , we were aiming for we were trying to make a town for the people . |
| 17 | In Skircoat Moor Road is a slender octagonal tower 253 feet high which was built in 1875 as a chimney for the dye-works of J.E . |
| 18 | The Bally cotton 10 is n't so much a race , as a festival for the people of the tiny seaside village in County Cork . |
| 19 | Both were said to be ‘ very happy ’ while pondering a name for the 7lb 3oz boy born on Friday night in the Wellington hospital , north-west London . |
| 20 | In 1648 he was serving as a commissioner for the militia and for the collection of tax arrears in London , by which time he had also already branched out into commerce , being recorded as a shipowner . |
| 21 | to provide a day for the people who |
| 22 | ‘ He gave his life as a sacrifice for the people of the estate . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ You will be doing a service for the people of north Westmeath and , indeed , to the people of Ireland , North and South , if you enable the Garda to successfully prosecute these people and put them behind bars . ’ |
| 24 | A paper for the people |
| 25 | A paper seemed the logical progression , a paper for the 6,000 at the Albert Hall , a paper for the people living in cheap rooms in Notting Hill Gate , Covent Garden , Ladbroke Grove , Chalk Farm , the Gate , the Garden , the Grove , and the Farm . |
| 26 | ( his final account included an extra £116 — a bath for the staff ! ) . |
| 27 | The Department of Social Security is paying £1,833 a week for the £832,500 interest-only mortgage on Tree Top Farm , set in 66 acres near Haslemere , Surrey . |
| 28 | His response is to ‘ raise up a deliverer for the people , Othniel . |
| 29 | She had too great a respect for the people to discount their inherited wisdom and instinctive worship of a power beyond themselves . |
| 30 | Basically , coming in from outside , I found a Library which the Herbarium staff regarded as ‘ theirs ’ , whereas I see it as much , much more than that — it 's primarily a Library for the staff , certainly , but it 's also a local , national , and international resource . |