Example sentences of "[noun pl] of an [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observing participant insider is consequently torn between self and scientism , for he knows the strengths of an inculcated approval for quality of restraint which sustains the police mind . |
| 2 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 3 | Product development departments could come up with fluorescent wolf-repellent bum-bags for £80 , and high-tech one-size bear-survival suits , built to withstand the claws of an angry grizzly for up to three minutes , and available in a range of attractive designer colours for only £350 . |
| 4 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 5 | If the site is not in danger of being destroyed , it may be possible to raise funds to conserve the site for display , and the way the site is presented depends largely on the nature of the remains : the ruins of an Islamic mosque for example , may need the walls to be strengthened and made safe , and suitable access provided in order to view the remains . |
| 6 | Their reports , contrasting the pros and cons of an early start for children , are featured below . |
| 7 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 8 | These three elements can be defined as follows : Economy : acquiring resources of an appropriate quality for the minimum cost . |
| 9 | Clearly , business interests would be against any general proscription and particularly against strict liability , since then it ‘ would not be possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a proposed course of action was legal ’ ( Hopkins 1980b : 427 ) and that would deprive corporate executives of an essential precondition for entering or staying in the market , namely predictability . |
| 10 | The crucial breakthrough came in 1854 , with the purchase of the United Kingdom rights of an American patent for the manufacture , by steam machinery , of a revolutionary wood-screw with a pointed end which acted as its own gimlet . |
| 11 | The government 's refusal to broaden the franchise for municipal councils — in most cities less than 1 per cent of the population had the vote — deprived liberals of an alternative forum for mass political activity . |