Example sentences of "an [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 2 | This does not derogate from his duty to act honestly and faithfully towards his customer and the broker must not conceal material facts in order to obtain an advantage for himself . |
| 3 | At least they have won an election for their seats on the council . |
| 4 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 5 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 6 | The systematic inversion practised by the hypocrite is brought out by Shakespeare , almost with an admiration for its trickery . |
| 7 | Russian nationalism , an official ideology in the late Tsarist period and still very strong today , helped to create an attitude towards the West which combined an admiration for its prosperity and efficiency with a deep contempt for its petty-mindedness and commercialism : a ‘ peculiar amalgam of love and hate ’ , as Isaiah Berlin has described it , combining intellectual respect and envy with emotional suspicion , hostility and contempt . |
| 8 | It was something to do with what she had discovered in her exploration of the trophy-room — a grudging respect , an admiration for his courage and integrity , for his sheer will to survive . |
| 9 | Deprivation must not be an excuse for everything . |
| 10 | Whatever Paula did , however mean and underhand , however selfish , in the end Sally would find an excuse for her . |
| 11 | There can never be an excuse for what happened to James Bulger , but we should all hope that some day there will be a better understanding of why it happened . |
| 12 | I 'm being an idiot , ’ she said , glad that Jean could find an excuse for her stupidity . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 14 | There will no doubt be an excuse for them to drink vodka together again soon . |
| 15 | Although the Unix International/OSF wars seem to have abated at the moment , ‘ there is always an excuse for them to rip each others hearts out , leaving Bill Gates to have the market , ’ says Rothstein . |
| 16 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 17 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 18 | It tends , too , to use its attention to female subjects as an excuse for its continued neglect of other under-represented subject groups . |
| 19 | The problem was exacerbated by the decision in 1950 to leave prisons as primarily the province of the states , which gives the central government something of an excuse for its half-hearted approach to reform . |
| 20 | This is just an excuse for him to walk |
| 21 | LADY DAVERS : Creature , art thou to beg an excuse for me ? |
| 22 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 23 | Among the pastoralists of East Africa women produce most of the foodstuffs through agriculture , but only cattle , cared for by men , are defined as the really important and noble product , and in fact women 's dominant productive contribution is given as an excuse for their social devaluation as low creatures unconcerned with the aesthetic and political value of pastoralism . |
| 24 | She looked at him in silence , wondering if insanity was being used as an excuse for their previous closeness . |
| 25 | Like spinning tops we dash from from one emergency to another , always citing them as an excuse for our unfailing refusal to face up to the global urgency staring at us |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't you find an excuse for us to be alone together , Harry ? ’ she asked . |
| 27 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 28 | Actually , I find snowdrops rather insipid , ’ he admitted as though searching for an excuse for his negative attitude . |
| 29 | Some alliances between , say , a Fenwick of Tynedale and a Croser of Teviotdale might ensure a lull in raiding and cattle thieving for a while , though there was usually an excuse for it to be resumed at fairly short notice . |
| 30 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |