Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fanfare is an activity-based course for young learners which promotes a highly positive attitude towards learning English . |
| 2 | But Djwa rightly perceives that ‘ reading through Cohen 's work we become aware of an unsatisfied search for an absolute . ’ |
| 3 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 4 | Because agriculture is such a basic industry throughout the world , good opportunities exist for agricultural posts overseas and the Third World in particular has an unsatisfied demand for graduates , once they have acquired the necessary experience or postgraduate qualifications in an appropriate field of tropical agriculture . |
| 5 | Convinced that the general public had an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge , he took an active part in several educational activities . |
| 6 | Secure as he thought in possession , Lewis brushed this aside as being an unsuitable subject for discussion at such a time . |
| 7 | Their presence in normal schools would be disruptive to the general process of education and an unsuitable environment for the children concerned . |
| 8 | It was , of course , still an unsuitable role for her , a seventeen-year-old dancer disguised as a Circassian boy . |
| 9 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 10 | But an agreement evidenced by writing and for value , to confer an interest in land , is specifically enforceable in equity , and an attempted disposition for value by unsealed writing will be treated as equivalent to such an agreement . |
| 11 | ‘ It would be an absurd nonsense for Chelmsford cathedral not to be allowed to sell these items to visitors to the cathedral . ’ |
| 12 | What an absurd name for that primitive slut ! |
| 13 | I agree that it is an absurd position for Commissioner Millan to take . |
| 14 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 15 | This aquatic ferris wheel churns the Bay 's waters into a brackish and turbid soup — an inhospitable place for many types of life . |
| 16 | He has an unquenchable enthusiasm for hunting , and especially for hawking . |
| 17 | Both kinds of representation betray fears and fantasies about sexual passivity and sexual promiscuity : women then , and gay men now , are imagined to engage in a passive promiscuity which is really an unquenchable appetite for destruction ; AIDS has ‘ reinforced the heterosexual association of anal sex with a self-annihilation originally and primarily identified with the fantasmatic mystery of an insatiable , unstoppable female sexuality ’ . |
| 18 | Meanwhile his brother Ollokot , of even larger build and with an unquenchable thirst for life , led buffalo-hunting expeditions to the far off Blackfoot lands . |
| 19 | Gedge , with help from Debbie Kaye , did most of the band 's administration and had an unquenchable thirst for hard work . |
| 20 | And although Edgar 's present listening has extended out past the Beach Boys , Credence Clearwater Revival and sundry American garage bands , The Stairs have made an inadvertent name for themselves as the most frighteningly authentic British beat combo in existence . |
| 21 | It sounds as if your engine may have glazed bores and too much crank case pressure if the cap is blowing off I suggest you have a compression check I do not know of an auxiliary tank for a Ninety Indeed , I have the same problem as yourself I 'm a newcomer to Land Rover and recently bought a 1975 Series III88 inch . |
| 22 | Roxburgh revealed the doubtful candidates for the game as the midfielders Gordon Strachan and Jim Bett , and Brian McClair , who fills an auxiliary role for his country . |
| 23 | They also have an anechoic chamber for acoustic research into speaker design etc . |
| 24 | They also have an anechoic chamber for acoustic research into speaker design etc . |
| 25 | Guessing how old someone is , is an age-old problem for publicans . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , we ca n't ruin an age-old custom for the sake of an absent mistress , can we ? ’ she interrupted as she untwined her legs and stood up to face him . |
| 27 | Gripe water is an age-old remedy for colic , wind and endless crying but the alcohol content of some brands could be putting babies at risk . |
| 28 | In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned . |
| 29 | On 17 March 1992 , an involuntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 was filed against Ferromet Resources Inc , the company 's main subsidiary . |
| 30 | The gene for GH5 was cloned into a plasmid that is part of the T7 expression system , and we expressed the gene in the E. coli strain B834(DE3) , which is a methionine-requiring auxotroph with an inducible gene for T7 RNA polymerase on the host chromosome . |