Example sentences of "[noun] to a [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 2 | In 1898 , having since 1871 styled himself ‘ electrical engineer ’ , he was elected an honorary member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , and the following year contributed the sum of £1,500 to a benevolent fund for the benefit of their members . |
| 3 | Similarly , the court has implied the grant of a right of way , solely for the purpose of a rent review , in order that the rent review clause should have a practical effect ( Jefferies v O " Neill ( 1983 ) 269 EG 131 ) and has enlarged a definition of " lessor " in a lease in order to give effect to a general scheme for the maintenance of a building and the recovery of a service charge ( Adelphi ( Estates ) Ltd v Christie ( 1983 ) 269 EG 221 ) . |
| 4 | Also , the peacock that landed right on time and the key to a bizarre hobby for one security minded youngster . |
| 5 | The second level can be taken as an alternative to a Higher course for some students . |
| 6 | But the R&A remarked on it during the presentation , about the unsporting behaviour of some sections of the crowd , and it was an unsavoury ending to a great day for me . |
| 7 | The final result is just as the simple quantity theory states , except that the monetarist view explains the process by reference to a stable demand for money function and an exogenously determined money stock which is under the control of the monetary authorities . |
| 8 | Lastly , it should be said that the most common practice , because of the uncertainties surrounding the reasonableness of general exclusion clauses , is to include two general exclusion clauses covering liability for any breach of contract ( however caused and whatever its seriousness ) , one excluding liability for economic loss in respect of such breaches , and the other limiting liability by reference to a fixed amount for any one breach and/or for all breaches under the contract . |
| 9 | At least one school has leased a redundant playground to a local factory for off-street day time parking . |
| 10 | Treat your other half to a romantic outing for two . |
| 11 | LAND at Llangollen Youth Club is likely to be sold by Clwyd County Council to a private developer for houses . |
| 12 | This was sold on the telephone to a private collector for £130,000 ( $234,000 ) against an estimate of £80–120,000 , an auction record for a Pahari miniature . |
| 13 | Some parents have even had the anguish of having to commit a child to a mental hospital for its own safety . |
| 14 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 15 | Balbinder was the subject of a Statement and Elizabeth Grugeon charts the process from an initial expression of concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress by the primary school to his transfer to a special school for pupils categorised as having ‘ moderate learning difficulties ’ . |
| 16 | These arguments are given credibility by Pareto 's ambiguous reaction to the rise of Italian fascism , and by Michels ' conversion from a socialist syndicalist espousing the use of a general strike before the First World War to an enthusiastic apologist for fascism in the 1920s ( Beetham , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | Manager Eamon Coleman will whisk his squad away this week-end to an undisclosed destination for intense training , a practice match and in-depth tactical discussions . |
| 18 | You have a right to a special diet for religious as well as medical purposes . |
| 19 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 20 | Observers believe the move to a single agency for both Europe and the US presages a more corporate approach to advertising like that of its rival Toshiba . |
| 21 | The move to a RISC-based architecture for future AS/400s has been widely reported , but Haines says that the current BiCMOS processors will suffice for around another two years yet , with the company pushing up the clock speed . |
| 22 | The Company is intent on maximising its potential and feels it is now set to further sales from 1991 which with revenue from other sources , point to a good year for the Company as a whole . |
| 23 | Panic is not the usual reaction to a dangerous situation for a group of soldiers . |
| 24 | In 1987 , I founded by prestigious First Turkey of the Christmas Season award and gave it to the British banker who had lent ( and lost ) £500,000 to a penniless student for him to play stock market futures . |
| 25 | If you are adding cables to a plain garment for which you already have a suitable pattern , add stitches to allow for the pattern to draw in . |
| 26 | I parted some grass and wondered why Cawthorne had bothered to run electric and telephone cables to a disused toilet for farmhands . |
| 27 | Every month , Asmar 's secretary would take the Sunboat from Jounieh to Larnaca to collect the payroll from Coleman for distribution within the network , each cell member then signing his cheques and counter-signing them on presentation to a Lebanese bank for payment . |
| 28 | Already all major buildings are linked together by fibre optic cable and by the end of this year all offices and most teaching rooms will have an outlet to an integrated network for academic , library and administrative computer services , and 90 per cent of academic staff should have a networked microcomputer on their desks . |
| 29 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 30 | While it was true that previous Education Acts had not looked at deaf education , the real motive was the need to provide a powerful argument to a Royal Commission for the establishment of the Pure Oral system throughout Britain . |