Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 2 | The first and most accessible was that used by tourists , rich and shoestring ( ‘ poor ’ was a word with a precise , living meaning here ) as a base for their trip to Machu Picchu . |
| 3 | Naturally enough , war raged fiercely in Spain ; in 1704 the English captured Gibraltar and held on to it , initially as a base for their communications in Spain ; a good deal of the naval activity of the war took place around Spanish waters and the English managed to stop the Bourbon forces from setting up any effective siege of Gibraltar . |
| 4 | But NARCOG was not the only group using Cyprus as a base for its intelligence operations . |
| 5 | One morning , it became clear that NARCOG was not the only group using Filanta Court as a base for its intelligence operations . |
| 6 | ICE have taken one unit as a base for its own Liverpool office , and solicitors are handling the sale of seven other houses , said ICE spokesman Duncan Sutherland . |
| 7 | The technical department provided a base for him in order that he could pursue Technical Studies over and above normal classes . |
| 8 | They will make a base for me to pen some more articles for the Journal . |
| 9 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 10 | Indeed , Eadwine may have used Chester as a base for his attack . |
| 11 | They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine . |
| 12 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 13 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 14 | It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of telephone books . |
| 15 | It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of the telephone books . |
| 16 | We 'll keep a lookout for something else suitable . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I kept a lookout for you on the ship . |
| 18 | And then my mother found a sister for me . |
| 19 | She kept wishing her mother would have a sister for her , but Jean Keith was in no great hurry to oblige . |
| 20 | ‘ I see you as a sister for my daughter — the sister she never had . |
| 21 | But a figurehead for what ? ’ |
| 22 | Write out a chit for whatever you use , as usual . |
| 23 | He says there 's er that I e I have n't got a chicken for you today , a kitchen for you today . |
| 24 | Instead of saying chicken , he says , I have n't got a kitchen for you . |
| 25 | Following the imaginative suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford , South ( Mr. Thorne ) , in recognition of Nepal 's return to democracy we are presenting to the Nepalese Parliament a throne for its Speaker . |
| 26 | These facts enable us to construct stretches of language as discourse ; as having a meaning and a unity for us . |
| 27 | They had stopped off at home and packed a case for her and then they had stayed to help her settle in . |
| 28 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 29 | This was a case for which a substantial punishment was called for , and in the absence of a plea of guilty , a sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) of at least two years would have been called for . |
| 30 | Therefore , if the acceptance of the Created God is to be considered , and as the doctrine has already produced the original unit of goodness defined in evolutionary terms , and further , as some form of assessment may ultimately be wanted , there is a case for its acceptance . |