Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 3 | And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do . |
| 4 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 5 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 6 | As employers find themselves competing for a falling number of young workers , there is a real opportunity to change out-dated and discriminatory attitudes towards older people . |
| 7 | Well , people come on a day to day basis , like a working environment , right ? er Each individual will stay for a different length of time , it could be weeks , months , even years . |
| 8 | Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned . |
| 9 | With no work to go to and nothing to do except sit in my room and think , I got through a fair number of mental scenarios by the time the next damp grey evening arrived . |
| 10 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 11 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 13 | It is interesting to see the raw material of event transformed into poetry , though this does make for a certain degree of repetition . |
| 14 | It is interesting to see the raw material of event transformed into poetry , though this does make for a certain degree of repetition . |
| 15 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
| 16 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 17 | The question of who is an " occupant " is discussed in Paterson v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 37 , where a new manager who applied for a permanent transfer of an off sale licence was held not to be an " occupant " where he had no interest in the premises other than as an employee . |
| 18 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 19 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 20 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 21 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 22 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 23 | In any case , I believe Eliot admired the thrillers of the prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim , who was published in the yellow-backed series to which he more than once referred as a possible source of inspiration . |
| 24 | Even allowing for a slight predominance of boys over girls among children , this still suggests that around two-thirds of the first generation of mill workers were female . |
| 25 | Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration , it would be reasonable to assume that most of the wealthy landowners and business men would have suffered in this ruthless purge . |
| 26 | The Assembly was expanded from 195 to 250 seats , allowing for a larger allocation of seats to independent candidates . |
| 27 | The band of fluctuation either side of the new parities was widened from 1 per cent to 2.25 per cent , thus allowing for a larger margin of exchange rate fluctuation before official intervention was required . |
| 28 | If that system had stayed , allowing for a modest increase of 10pc annually for inflation et al , we would now be paying around £1050 , probably more with Labour in power locally . |
| 29 | Courts would be involved in pre-trial procedure much more actively than at present in attempting to keep the parties to proposed new timetables , whilst allowing for a realistic degree of relaxation by the court , and permitting the parties to vary particular time limits by agreement , subject always to the obligation to have the case ready for trial and set down within the overall timetable . |
| 30 | Although the work has medical and therapeutic origins , it has been developed as a regular part of the Medau method of physical education and is intended for people of any age who are in normal health . |