Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widening of the franchise , albeit within the confines of the PCC , whose membership was estimated to be 600,000 , was seen as an important step and offered some hope to opposition groups campaigning for a future independent parliament . |
| 2 | Libel damages call for a metaphysical evaluation of dignity , a compensation , in many cases , for loss of amour propre which may be higher than the courts would award for the loss of an arm or a leg . |
| 3 | As shopping centres prepared for a busy Saturday , anti-terrorist chief Commander David Tucker warned the IRA could strike in any major city . |
| 4 | The development plans submitted by the local planning authorities for the Home Counties provide for a green belt , some 7 to 10 miles deep , all around the built-up area of Greater London . |
| 5 | A search is now under way to find a medium with a reliably long shelf-life , because even if our present-day sound recordings last for a full century ( which is doubtful ) , our successors will have to copy the whole collection every hundred years or so . |
| 6 | Although December 's new credit levels were substantially ahead , a number of retailers have suggested that cash payments accounted for a significant proportion of spend . |
| 7 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 8 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 9 | In projects designed to support small ( and larger-scale ) entrepreneurs various forms of ‘ leakage ’ are frequent : credit funds ear-marked for a particular purpose are deployed for entirely different purposes , or for the purchase of domestic assets . |
| 10 | Obviously , the type of leadership qualities required for a fast food establishment are not the same as for an insurance company . |
| 11 | Top cosmetic surgeon Anthony Erian says he turns away more than half the people who walk into his Harley Street consulting rooms looking for a new image . |
| 12 | In the meantime , Parkside is being maintained by a crew of former pit men working for a private contractor . |
| 13 | In September 1988 revised figures were published showing a dramatic rise in both passenger and freight traffic based on a expected increase in economic growth and a likely rise in ferry tariffs to compensate for a post-1992 loss of duty-free trade . |
| 14 | Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure . |
| 15 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | The recruitment managers searched for a curious combination , success in career or studies to date , coupled with frustration at its limited demands and prospects . |
| 17 | It is a spacious drive , clearly an upper-class area , with a coach passing pedestrians dressed for a crisp spring day . |
| 18 | Unix Labs is asking the judge to reconsider his recent denial of a Unix Labs bid for a preliminary injunction halting distribution of any Berkeley Software code . |
| 19 | Traffic fumes accounted for a growing proportion of the problem . |
| 20 | It has also underlined the urgent need for sufficient Government funds to pay for a massive recovery programme . |
| 21 | PALESTINIAN gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli soldier in the occu pied West Bank yesterday , as army patrols searched for a kidnapped border guard . |
| 22 | The performance curves obtained for a new scheme can be compared directly against an ideal set or those found for a previous design . |
| 23 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 24 | As the Canadian railway companies experimented for a distinctive national style , it is perhaps not surprising that they turned to French models , although the styles they adopted were often filtered through the United States . |
| 25 | The structural fund regulations allow for a fundamental review of the fund 's operation to take effect from 1 January 1994 . |
| 26 | Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs . |
| 27 | Identified risk factors accounted for a small proportion of the grade differences in sickness absence . |
| 28 | Yalikavak is for funboard sailors looking for a high probability of good steady winds . |
| 29 | This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region . |
| 30 | On extended expeditions there were occasions when he would break or lose even his spares , and I would find myself combing deserted beaches and jungle tracks looking for a small circle of glass on which , I was acutely aware , rested the success or failure of an entire project . |